Word: wowing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Canadians overlooked Obama's one faux pas - mistakenly calling Ottawa "Iowa" - and seemed to appreciate his stop at a farmers' market to wow crowds and buy a Canadian cinnamon-and-sugar pastry known as a beaver tail. He has set a higher bar for the U.S.-Canada partnership than perhaps any President before. But with the goodwill generated from his first charm offensive, his chances of success look pretty good...
...having won a staring contest with rival HD DVD, is now officially the next generation in home entertainment. The promise is that movies will look better than ever, duplicating and perhaps surpassing the big-screen experience. Manufacturers and film companies, investing zillions in the process, want you to say, Wow! But first they want you to buy the stuff. A Blu-ray player is about $200 to $700, and the discs cost a few dollars more than DVDs...
...first thing was the title, where I had something by Jonatha Brooke in mind, and the next day they got me on the phone with Jonatha Brooke. And I was like, wow, so that's how that works now. It was very surreal for me, because I've been a fan of hers for years. She wrote a beautiful theme that informs the kind of music that I like on the show. And then we basically get sent a bunch. Some of the music is not the music I listen to - for example, in the third episode Echo becomes...
...level. He became captain of the Junior Varsity team and devoted the following summer to training. “I rarely saw him so grim and determined,” Owen remembers, “as a younger brother I was watching him like ‘wow.’ I mean, he just played basketball all the time...
Could this be the world's most alluring airport hotel? Aesthetically, it's got the requisite wow factor, thanks to its sensuous chocolate-colored, polished-plaster foyer with a subtly lit, fiberglass staircase sweeping up into a spiral. And its location at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England - fast becoming the main European hub for private aviation - adds undeniable cachet. The hotel's opening in August was smartly timed too, pre-empting the centenary of the first officially recorded powered flight in Britain, made by Samuel Franklin Cody at Farnborough in October...