Word: awed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violence, though, is not gory. Rather, it is cold and stark, emblematic of their shattered family and fragmented society. Vilmure approaches violence with the insight of an older, more weathered author, and the awe and pain of a child on first discovery...
...wife of 39 years. He surely takes pride in his rowdy eminence, yet he considers himself and his rock peers mere "moons and satellites" to Hollywood stars like Bogart and Hepburn; a man who has spent a third of a century in the show-biz sideshow cannot shake his awe for celebrities in the main ring. He continues to play rave-up rock 'n' roll -- by now he must have performed Sweet Little Sixteen more times than Judy Garland ever sang Over the Rainbow -- but mostly for middle-class whites whose average age skirts closer to 60 than...
...first Mike lounges warily in Claire's palatial digs, tossing newspaper wads into the sconces. Mike considers her with the outsider's mixture of scorn and awe. But why should he consider her at all? He is at ease in the world outside Manhattan; he has a loving wife (Lorraine Bracco) and a fine young son. For that matter, why should Claire think of Mike as anything but a nuisance or a clown? He shadows her everywhere, mangles the language and dresses like a used-car salesman at Sunday Mass. Yet she responds to his strength. Though...
...been his. Her third husband, a failed writer named Raoul Schumacher, did some useful editing, but despite embittered statements he made after their breakup, most of her book was written before they met. She was her own writer, her own woman and a force of nature still remembered with awe in East Africa. "I don't think Beryl ever thought how her behavior must have appeared to the people of the real world," a friend once said, "and if she had thought, she would have said it was stupid and would certainly never have let it worry...
...sometime after lunch Wednesday, the activity died down. We entered the MCZ. I can't really describe the Glass Flowers, but not I know why my mom has stood in awe for the past 22 years. I especially liked the glass moldy peaches...