Word: awed
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...Personality: "This work violates the values of the academic community." I feel it a grave mistake to make public criticism of this fascinating area of research on the basis of doubtful ethical considerations. The fact that the drug's properties lead people (including this writer) to be vaguely in awe and fear of its potentialities seems to be a rather poor reason for undertaking any criticism which might result in pressures restricting the freedom of the investigators involved. Not being associated personally with the research, either as subject or experimenter, I am not in a position to have heard reactions...
...called The Crow in the Woods. In lacelike prose, with just enough homely obtrusions to prevent his art from seeming precious, Updike tells of a young man's epiphany. The hero wakes up on a winter morning, regards the beauty of his still-sleeping wife, and looks in awe at trees transformed by snow. He rises, fondly changes his baby daughter's diaper, and carries her downstairs, warmly conscious of the absent-minded pat of her hands on his neck. His wife bustles down and prepares breakfast. While he is eating it, he sees, through a window...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats the relationship of God and man with more humor than awe, but the superb acting of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and the glory...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats the relationship of God and man with more humor than awe, but the superb acting of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and the glory...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats the relationship of God and man with more humor than awe, but the acting of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and glory...