Word: awestruck
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When you first saw the Himalayas, were you awestruck? No. When we first saw the Himalayan peaks, I was very impressed - they looked pretty good - but they didn't look all that different from what I'd been climbing in the Southern Alps...
...mocking your obtuseness, the case for your superlative statewide discernment becomes a tough sell. Fundraising numbers alone attest to the fact that the presidential campaigns we’re witnessing have become sickeningly well-oiled and potent political machines, with the newspapers and cable news channels hovering nearby, awestruck and totally indulgent sidekicks. As these behemoths prepare to churn their way through the big coastal cities, gathering cash and celebrity endorsements over the course of 2008, at the very least we can make them start their year slowed to a crawl and under scrutiny in a Dubuque diner. Thank heaven...
...industrialist to gravitate toward such esoteric fields--imagine Henry Ford fixating on the origin of the universe--but Kavli, 79, says he got the bug long before he made his fortune in the U.S. aerospace industry. He grew up on a farm in rural Norway, where he remembers being awestruck by the night sky. "There was no city nearby," he says, so when the aurora borealis lit up, "the sky was completely inflamed." Kavli's fascination with the universe deepened in college after World War II when his physics teacher relayed details from a friend, the legendary quantum theorist Niels...
...concocting a spring pasta with chicken sausage, artichoke hearts, red pepper, eggplant, and zucchini. I hand-pack my own hamburgers; I’ve creamed, broiled, double-boiled, sifted, folded (gently), tossed, scalded, and celebrated. The family I’m housesitting for has stood by and watched in awestruck incredulity as I tear through their kitchen like a possessed Tasmanian devil...
Some WHRB DJs got more than strikes when they went bowling last Thursday. Jeff Mangum—the lead singer of now-defunct indie pop legends Neutral Milk Hotel—decided to break his five-year hiatus from performing in public to whip out his guitar for the awestruck WHRBies, transporting them out of the neon glare of Lanes and Games into Holland, 1945…A certain Fly member decided to take his post-spring break revelry to a whole new level this weekend when he entered a room in Eliot that was not his own. Instead...