Word: awestruck
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Movie watching makes children of us all. The infant it locates within every viewer is sometimes aggressive (when action films delight in breaking their expensive toys), often rude (when comedies exult in wisecracks and flatulence) and, once in a while, awestruck by the splendor of the imagination. Films that aim honorably at evoking childlike wonder are so rare, so vulnerable, that one wants to clap three times and shout, as kids do seeing Peter Pan, "I do believe in fairies! I do, I do!"--until the drab reality of a botched movie shakes an audience to its senses...
...Federation has named them one of the 10 species most likely to become extinct. The aquarium hopes that exposing the public to a live great white will educate and inspire conservation. "Great whites have a different aura," says Randy Kochevar, Monterey Bay Aquarium's science communication manager. "People are awestruck. When they see her, they understand." --By Susan Casey
Democrats were perplexed, depressed and awestruck. How could Cheney get away with saying, in effect, that a vote for Kerry was a vote for terrorism? More to the point, how could Bush get away with, well, everything: a misspent youth, a lifetime of insider trading on the family name, a misfought war, a misleading inference that the invasion of Iraq had some vague relevance to 9/11, a presidency marked by rampant corporate cronyism at home and abroad? "If we can't beat this guy, with this record ..." a prominent Democrat said to me. He was unable to finish the sentence...
...that doesn't mean it's a good idea to play mad scientist in them. Public dining rooms are also like cathedrals. You go to them looking for a mixture of spectacle and serenity. You want to be awestruck. You're also hoping to find space for a little quiet reflection, even if it's just over the pros and cons of a seared scallop. And while it's true that a long evening at a good table should also provide some theater, a sense of occasion, the occasion should not be Halloween. When you're trying to focus...
...sharp. She would take the essence of the speech and bring it out and move on,” Churchill said. “I was awestruck...