Word: awing
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Plotkin was struck by the fact that just five days earlier he had been at the top of the World Trade Center at the Windows on the World restaurant, and he remembered how in awe he had been at the time that “humans are able to construct something so magnificent, so tall, so beautiful...
...realize it, of course, but it's American Airlines Flight 11 puncturing their building upstairs, across floors 94 to 98. "What the hell?" says Genelle. She's not scared yet, just curious, so she goes to the window. Seeing a snowstorm of papers in the air, she stands in awe and confusion, motionless. Now people are saying a plane has hit the building. "We have to leave," she hears someone urge...
...Washington. When the last of its 460 turbines are installed, this postmodern power plant will offer clean electricity to 70,000 homes and businesses. Every month hundreds of tourists come to gawk at its fiber-glass blades, twirling with balletic grace atop 160-ft. poles. "People are in awe of wind power," says Anne Walsh, community-relations manager of the Stateline Energy Center...
...jerky and unimaginative fight scenes or The Touch's lackluster special effects, used extensively whenever Yeoh does her flying thing and in the film's climactic fight?which takes place inside a fiery Buddhist shrine, but was clearly filmed in front of a blue screen. Neither realistic nor awe-inspiring, the special effects make the The Touch look cheaper than it is, like expensive makeup poorly applied...
...20th century. He spent much of his life documenting the American wilderness, turning its craggy features into monumental images. Confronted by Thunderstorm over the Great Plains, near Cimarron, New Mexico (1961), the eye looks automatically for an Arizona Highways magazine caption featuring the words "grandeur," "majesty" and "awe." But if these landscapes became national treasures verging on cliché, it is thanks partly to Adams' dedication and activism...