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While I spoke with 20 people for this piece, I received 178 individual responses of all kinds, ranging from shock and awe to relative disappointment to distinctly modern moviegoing gripes.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Then he sounds less like a CEO than a scientist in awe of his subject.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"And yet we're not giving it the attention, we're not giving it the awe that it probably truly deserves," he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

“I’m still in awe of how he met the moment,” Jeff Fellenzer told me after Claire died Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

A recognition that the diverseness of species on Earth adds to the beauty, the wonder, the awe of the world around us.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

The keyboard introduction to What Was I Made For?, taken from the recent soundtrack to the Barbie movie, draws gasps and "awes" from around the field.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023

While Churchill awes spectators with its size and scope, on par with the world’s monumental stadiums, Keeneland, opened in 1936, guards its idyllic appeal.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021

She keeps on killing—at cocktail parties and dive bars, even at a Washington Square rally, where she awes Jane Jacobs with a speech about how women “accessorize” the world, as a multiethnic crowd cheers.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2018

He rushes 32-yards after drawing more awes when he made a couple of impressive cuts -- he then dragged defenders on his back a few yards before finally going down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2014

And godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The total eclipse plunged a vast swathe of Spain from broad daylight into darkness Wednesday, drawing awed gasps and applause from spectators gathered in parks and cities across the country.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

"You've got to be awed by it all, which I never cease to be."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Using every tool at his disposal — namely his violins, guitars, looping machine and expressive voice — Bird created a whirling one-man-band effect that somehow awed and soothed the crowd in equal measure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Some might find it humanizing—proof that below the bloviating gestalt, the president can become awed by existential futility.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

“Wow,” Ruby says again in an awed voice when I hold up the page.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

He has a unique capacity for memorizing data that he frequently recites, awing listeners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

Holmgren stole the show as a soloist at times, swatting shots, swooping for dunks and awing the crowd with his agility.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

In one space as awing as any I saw on my underground weekend, the 14 of us walked into a veritable canyon, with a natural vaulted ceiling.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2019

The idea is to terrify the enemy: the effect will be to petrify ourselves, shocking and awing us into understanding the full implications of no deal.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2019

"It is my father," said she, still standing in the way and awing him by the power of her beauty.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various