awe

This isn’t the kind of film that gets Oscar nominations, but Arianne Phillips and Monica Chamberlain’s bonkers costuming, all candy colors and asymmetrical shapes, deserves recognition, or at least awe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

"By year two you could see that development. He made some plays where you were in awe on the sideline."

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

Oh gosh, there’s so many people whose work I admire, but I think the person that I just have so much awe and admiration for is Jean Smart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

“It is the Black Crochan,” Taran whispered in fear and awe.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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

Admissions officers described numerous times where a seemingly far-fetched application proved true, and awed them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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

I pause in spite of myself, awed as her fingers fly across the board.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

Inside the Sistine Chapel, where in the past I have been shoved and elbowed by the crowds, about 30 spectators were awing over Perugino’s frescoes and craning to see Michelangelo’s burly musclemen on the ceiling.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 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

It was not fear that seemed to clutch at their hearts and make them pound, or that struck them silent, it was an awing sense of something supernatural, something not quite real.

From The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Stuart, Gordon