Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acceptance of this arch axiom teeters this over-suave tale. Its stagy business, and that of the Duchess of Combon de Triton, is to make her "appallingly stupid" cluke the first faithful husband in Spanish history. Her scheme is to win his compassion by feigning illness and his awe by submitting to surgical cures without anesthesia or a whimper. Some 30 agonizing operations later, the duke commits suicide. Now the widow, whose "only joy is to make others stay out of their own lives," can begin to "enjoy" her two children. "You may do what you want, but not before...
Robert Kennedy has much working for him. His name alone commands enthusiasm and awe, and like his late brother he is young, handsome, and articulate. In addition, lest anyone forget, he came to New York, where he had not lived for almost twenty years, and defeated a man who had served New York in Congress for eightteen...
Detailing the promiscuous lives of Lizzie's assistants in the barbershop, Dahlberg emphasizes the sordidness of sex. Yet he can juxtapose such passages with lyrics full of awe about passion. In Truth Is More Sacred, he affirms that "emptied of awe ... the heart is a moldy fungus that poisons the whole earth...
...awareness of death gave his art a touch of personal agony that overwhelmed the visible world he painted. "True art," he wrote, "is to depict unreality." And his brusquely applied colors readied the public for the subsequent makers of German expressionism, such as Max Beckmann and Oskar Kokoschka. In awe, one expressionist, Ernst Kirchner, admitted of Corinth: "At first he was mediocrity. At the end, truly great...
...Your article about bridges [Aug. 28] expressed my own feelings for them. They are more awe-inspiring than rockets to the moon. I have an almost reverent regard for the minds that conceive those beautiful, unbelievable bridges...