Word: awe
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Student-faculty sex is not exactly news. For the roving professor, female students are a vast pool of young, relatively inexperienced women who look at faculty members with respect and often a dash of awe. As one professor candidly admits, "We deal with young people when they are most physically beautiful, most open to new thought and experience. All the while we get older. It's quite a lure...
...basketball midway through the period. Displaying his usual wealth of flashy ball handling, Dixon electrified the Garden by taking a fastbreak down the lane and dumping it behind his back to Mark Harris, who laid the ball in for a 13--12 Harvard lead. The Eagles just stood in awe...
Gildea started things off with a convincing, if not awe-inspiring, win in the 500 free, bringing home the gold...
...Degas once remarked, that are indistinguishable from panic. So it seems with the present boom in the art market. For the past 15 years or so, collectors, dealers, auction houses and their willing accomplices, journalists, have been moved to pleasure, then wonder, and now to a sort of popeyed awe at the upward movement of art prices. If art was once expected to provoke un nouveau frisson, a new kind of shudder, its present function is to become a new type of bullion. Thus, we are told by art industry flacks, people now respect art. They flock to museums...
...natural world. But now, in the postStar Wars era, stories are created merely to provide a feeble excuse for the effects. Star Trek consists almost entirely of this kind of material: shot after shot of vehicles sailing through the firmament to the tune of music intended to awe. But the spaceships take an unconscionable amount of time to get anywhere, and nothing of dramatic or human interest happens along the way. Once the ships reach their destination, they do not encounter the kind of boldly characterized antagonists that made Star Wars such fun. In fact, they do not meet...