Word: awed
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...though the Crimson had an idea of CCU’s speed—the Chanticleers did boast the Offensive MVP of the tourney and Zimbabwean track star, Mubarike Chisoni, among others—it still left the field in awe...
...American who truly prospered in these meek and mild Games was Michael Phelps. The eight-medal poster boy swam like a perfect machine, but then so did his Australian rival Ian Thorpe. Both seemed less vexed by their competition than in mutual awe. When they glanced at each other across the pool, their expressions seemed to say, You can do that too? Phelps was impeccably smooth, as were most of the Americans, who won most of the events. The BALCO scandal was supposed to have crippled the U.S. goal of 100 medals, which was met late Saturday night. The medals...
Witherspoon, who was the director's first choice for Becky, says Nair was "born to direct" and that she was "in awe" of her. "We shot in India for three days, and she had 300 extras, two elephants, four camels, and she was directing in Hindi and in English, and she did it without breaking a sweat...
They trigger our awe and our nostalgia as representatives of a flinty, hardscrabble culture that hardly exists today. They lived out a parable of man at one with nature. They used their bodies as they were designed and programmed over the millennia: for walking, for working, for being fed from the earth's natural bounty. It makes one wonder whether the next generation of oldsters will last quite as long. They will need not just the luck of the genetic draw but also the strength to renounce the lure of fast-food days and couch-potato nights that add yards...
...performance is terrible. Horrible in the sense that, 114 years after it was written, Henrik Ibsen's play, about the attempts of a general's daughter to transcend her loveless marriage to a feckless history professor, is as misanthropic as ever. And terrible, in that Blanchett's performance inspires awe from the moment she first rises from her sofa to stretch, as smooth and svelte as a leopard...