awe-struck
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During the nearly seven-hour lunar flyby, astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Reid Weisman gave near-literary descriptions of lunar surface features and left scientists in Houston awe-struck.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
With the metal in colliding knives, the foley work of sand beneath a boot and the glottal roaring of a sandworm, I am reduced to a slack, muttering, awe-struck child.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2025
In those early days, Raban is almost goofy for Seattle, and that wide-eyed, awe-struck wonder looks good on him.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023
When Cormac McCarthy’s manual typewriter sold at auction in 2009, the awe-struck book dealer Glenn Horowitz remarked that it was “as if Mount Rushmore was carved with a Swiss Army knife.”
From New York Times • May 22, 2023
At which they drew back awe-struck, yet fascinated by the grotesque buffoonery inseparable from the insane.
From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Rice, Alfred Ernest