Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parker only underline the anti-Turkish prespective of the film: subtitles seem to have been deliberately omitted, thereby inflicting an incomprehensible gibberish on anyone who does not speak Turkish; the swarthy faces of Turksih prision guards and interrogrators often fill the screen, making them all the more sinister and awe-inspiring...
...first glimpse of the Canyon came in the very early morn, from the back of yet another pick up--an awe inspiring huge gap in the earth, a fuzzy, hazy red purple brown green fusion of colors and shapes and forms and rock layers. And just up the road was the South Rim Village, where hotels and shops and restaurants and cards and fat Iowa tourists in Winnebago motor homes greeted my eyes...
...good to know that even 20th century man, with all his technology, cannot feel complacent about his world. He can still gaze heavenward and feel the same sense of awe and wonder experienced by earliest man, in all his ignorance...
Perhaps you can attribute Brown's success to the fact that though he respects Harvard, he has never really been in awe of the school, academically or athletically...
...course. Only two other cadets, one of them Robert E. Lee, had ever received higher grades at the Point. His contemporaries regarded him with awe, and pictures from the time show why. Lean and handsome, with a beaklike nose, he radiated confidence and authority. But peacetime Army life made MacArthur restless and insubordinate. "It's the orders you disobey that make you famous," he told one officer...