Word: awing
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When residents of the Real World go strolling through the Yard, wondering in awe of the brilliant students they see sitting on the steps of Widener (students who are probably blowing off work and bagging classes), they must be perplexed by the unfamiliar vocabulary they over-hear. The tourists are probably under the mistaken impression that our diction is just too sophisticated for them to understand--that it has something to do with Kant, Nietzsche or Wittgenstein...
...mystery for any one movie. "What I've seen of the rich," Alan snorts, "you can have them." Claus fairly purrs, "I do." This corrosive comedy of high manners has them down right. It knows that these rich are different. They are worthy of our derision and awe...
...Angstrom family chronicles, Rabbit at Rest. As powerful, certainly, as any made by social critics like Barbara Erhenreich. But Updike's fiction lacks the tone of condemnation of his contemporaries. Rabbit does fall prey to the pitfalls of technology and culture, but he never looses his sense of awe...
Bloom sees J as a single individual who wrote after Solomon's reign 29 centuries ago but displays a modernistic skepticism and worldliness. Though he maintains that J's "power as a writer made Judaism, Christianity and Islam possible," Bloom believes she harbored neither love nor awe of God. He conceives of her as more blasphemous than Salman Rushdie in portraying the Deity as impish and arbitrary...
Only a year old, Toyota's pathbreaking sedan has consumers in awe and automakers around the world anxious...