Word: awing
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...little squares of blue jello piled inside an old-fashioned ice-cream dish, topped with a minuscule amount of whipped cream and three miniature M&Ms. And if you forget to go to lunch, you can always hit the Krispy Kreme Doughnuts or Panda Express in the Student Union. Awe-inspiring is the only word for UCLA dining services—you will never go hungry...
...living in an Illinois suburb, tries to figure out how relationships work and where he fits into the world while struggling with what must be the beginnings of chronic depression. That Porcellino manages to create an actual story arc out of life's random events should be cause for awe, but to also do it with such emotional insight and honesty seems frighteningly talented...
...life advocates, the moral cost of continuing such research outweighs any potential benefits. For scientists, however, the possibilities are both awe-inspiring and bewildering. No one denies the moral dilemma of the stem cell debate. But to turn back now, researchers say, would be tantamount to turning our backs on a bright, sustaining light because we are terrified of the shadows it creates...
...view is quite different. Even without a telescope, you can see thousands of stars twinkling in shades of blue, red and yellow-white, with the broad Milky Way cutting a ghostly swath from one horizon to the other. No wonder our ancient ancestors peered up into the heavens with awe and reverence; it's easy to imagine gods and mythical heroes inhabiting such a luminous realm...
...left Lake Michigan for the Mediterranean in the summer after third grade. My first memories of Athens are awe at the density of the city's history. Not simply the presence of stones, statues, monuments but also the range of discursive memory stretched father and deeper than I had ever seen; in the absence of totalizing newness, the strata of the city's building and becoming was testament to a continuity of production on a scale dwarfing the (European) self-construction of the American heartland. My first insight into the possibility of history was appropriately one of the oldest...