awe

Even at the lowest point of a wind turbine, Witek expresses his awe at "the feeling of freedom" compared to the fourteen years he spent at the bottom of a mine.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

I was just in awe of the history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

On the train journey through steel country, he watched with awe the huge industrial furnaces that belched smoke and fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Folk from these parts gawping and filming their visitors in awe.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Papa stepped forward, a look almost of awe on his face, and then he and Jiichan hugged tightly, which Hanako knew was unusual among Japanese people.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

As for the fans, James awes, but he doesn’t quite connect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

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

The pace of building in South Korea awes, but there are gripes that the quality of public exhibitions, and professional standards, varies widely.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 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

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

It’s only humans who have attached words like “wild” and “unexplored” to regions where they feel uncertain, afraid, and even awed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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

But it was a chance to capture the imaginations of new generations of future space explorers, while also calling back to the one-giant-step-for-mankind sense of awed enormity that characterized the 20th-century Space Race.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

Mozart Maxon, then a consultant for India’s National Disaster Management Authority, was awed when he saw the lake for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Ekon watched its retreat, awed, before turning back to Koffi.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

Her eyes now opened, with alarm, to a confusion so unusual in her severe and authoritative brother-in-law; whom she was accustomed to view awing others, not himself awed.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny