Word: awed
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...author was in the U.S. this week for a book tour, mainly for schoolchildren, but I had been lucky enough to win a ticket in a sweepstakes for the only evening event in New York City. So there I sat, gazing down in awe as she read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, answered questions from the audience, and then signed two thousand books, including mine. As Rowling settled down, the crowd did not. On the edge of their seats, they clung on to every word coming from the woman on the velvet-covered throne, often bursting into applause...
...that vein. With almost 150 works, it's a full picture of the entire man. All the same, while people will come away impressed by Turner the painter of historic events and modern horrors, one as forceful and sometimes as original as Goya, the man they'll be in awe of is still that other Turner, the incandescent bulb, the great conductor of solar power...
...imagine, I dream, and then I enter a world of wonder and awe and magic and awesome stuff like that...
...sophomores who have enrolled in Social Studies 10a, the first half of what was a year-long tutorial, will crack open their copies of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and learn that “during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre [sic].” And perhaps some will wonder whether the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies read their tutorial’s first assigned book themselves, for the concentration seems to rather lack a degree of awe for the common...
...lack of character development elsewhere. The delicate poignancy of the film has a familiarity that most audience members will appreciate; the scattered characters and narration, unfortunately, have a distancing effect that makes it harder to sit through cloying moments. Still, Radcliffe fans and viewers willing to indulge in youthful awe will appreciate this sentimental venture. —Staff writer Erin F. Riley can be reached at eriley@fas.harvard.edu...