awe
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The film’s climax reaches for the same sense of civilizational awe as the mothership landing in “Close Encounters.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Yet, I wanted to see more of the old Spielberg, the one who expressed awe in moments of silence rather than relentless motion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
One of them said, with awe, they’d even spotted a member of Congress recently.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
If “to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the . . . law of Nature,” Thoreau asks us, “why waste any time in awe or pity?”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Mal was looking at her with a new light in her face: it was awe.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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