Word: awed
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...Great Gatsby (to switch writers for a moment), F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote of the Dutch sailors who encountered the "fresh green breast of the new world." What those sailors were to Europeans, Lewis and Clark were to Americans. They explored the extreme, forbidding, literally awe-inspiring territories that for Americans were the New World and that are still thought of as emblematic of America. This was no nurturing green breast, however; it was the broad, muscled back of the country, indifferent and untender. If you don't pay too much attention, Lewis & Clark can be engaging as a historical...
...towel to prevent the skin irritation that comes with the gas. Then they tried to stun Allen by firing some beanbag-like projectiles at her, but she was ready for that too, having armored herself in several layers of clothing. The gathering crowd of militiamen stand in awe and see her expertise as proof of a survivalist sensibility. Says Glad Hall, president of the Southern Illinois Patriots League: "She is good...
...Street we trust, and trust, and trust some more. Patricia Horst, 62, president of her own business-forms company in a Cincinnati, Ohio, suburb, says every dime of her portfolio is in the market. "Every night when I download the prices on my holdings, I just sit there in awe of all the money I'm making," she marvels. The benevolent stock-market god--the true promise keeper of our generation--is paving the way in green for her to retire in a few years and fulfill a lifetime fantasy of spending six months a year in Europe...
...Bleeding London is a wounded creature. A writer once said of Ezra Pound, "he is a great poet who has never written a great poem." In the world of lyric prose, Nicholson neither leads nor follows. Rather, he occupies that awkward region in between--usually above reproach, seldom awe-inspiring--where many decent writers languish in anonymity. Bleeding London is, well, bloody awful...
...other hand, Ashong seems to be too much in awe of Spielberg to even make comparisons or understand his genius...