awe

Templeton has seen onlookers react with similar awe.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026

Strangers sang to each other in joyful unison, while others closed their eyes or held their hands on their chest in complete awe of witnessing a veteran artist in her element.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Millions of Europeans will contemplate the sky in awe on Wednesday as a rare total solar eclipse crosses part of the continent and plunges a swathe of Spain into eerie daytime darkness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

He also has a tendency to get starry-eyed around big-name pitchers; his awe of Mr. Skubal verges on sycophantic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“Butter my cheeks and call me a biscuit, you were incredible last weekend,” she said, and sighed in awe.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

The teacher has already inserted into the hat the rabbit whose production in the classroom awes the undergraduates.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015

There is an innocence in him that I have found merely foreign and foolish; yet in another moment that seeming innocence reveals a discipline of knowledge and a largeness of purpose that awes me.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Now our immediate hope was that his chemical colleagues would be more than ever awed by his intellect and not probe the details of his model.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

Doing the things only she can do, awing her peers while trying to silence her inner critic in the process.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 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

Then they were all awing once more, hawking for supper.

From Roof and Meadow by Dallas Lore Sharp