Word: awed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dance is in the doldrums. There hasn't been anything like it in years--10 years, to be exact, for it was in 1989 that Jerome Robbins put his ballet career on hold to direct Jerome Robbins' Broadway, a song-and-dance spectacular that theater buffs still recall with awe. The comparison is inescapable: Fosse was the only other Broadway choreographer with anything like Robbins' stylistic individuality and clarity of purpose, and he has had no successors...
...surprised by the attention. "The thought of television changing the games to go prime time..." he says in wonderment. "The thought of almost every reporter in the country and almost the world watching one player--it's unheard-of." When McGwire, after hitting 70, said he was "in awe of myself," he wasn't trying to be cocky. He was just finally getting...
Other students described their awe at knowingone of the nation's foremost legal minds...
...plated fixtures to boot. We all crave stately pleasure domes, such Xanadus as William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon and Bill Gates' new ode to monstrosity in Seattle. But only the occasional hyper-mogul ever attains one. These opulent shrines to capitalism we regard with a mixture of envy, awe and abhorrence: "Isn't that ridiculous--nobody needs a house that big." Or, "Just think how hard it would be to keep that thing clean." The fact that he or she has a Xanadu--and you don't--proves that the owner is a greedy hustler or a planet-polluting...
...weakest of the leads was tenor Rojas in the role of Alfredo, his sophomore performance with the BLO (after debuting triumphantly last year in Werther). Alfredo goes from one emotional extreme to another in the course of the opera--love, ecstasy, awe, anger, revenge and loss is a lot for three short acts--and the role consequently requires an actor who is able to convey this both dramatically and musically...