overawe
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Since conversion was thought to excuse conquest, these devotional artworks had to overawe their viewers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
The challenge of Test cricket would not overawe him.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2022
The West is more immediate and can still overawe the spectator with substantial remnants of its old annihilating grandeur.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2017
Hoping to overawe the people of the land, Lewis would let out a blast of his air rifle, a relatively new piece of technology the Native Americans had never seen.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Jonathan’s impetuosity, and the manifest singleness of his purpose, seemed to overawe those in front of him; instinctively they cowered, aside and let him pass.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
In the same way, these young people live in the light of the history of cinema, of the great age of Hollywood and the classic European cinema that also overarches and overawes the moderns.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014
"The building is a personal statement by Rudolph," he says, "and it overawes a student who is looking for a place to make his own personal statement."
From Time Magazine Archive
Having spoken of the Church, the great power which overawes the government, it is also proper to mention the secondary powers: the men of colossal fortune.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson
There is something in the pyramids which overawes our boasted civilization.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson
It is the individual atoms that build up the mighty and effective aggregate that overawes all opposition, and like an avalanche sweeps all resistance before it.
From Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada by Scian Dubh
Stidham has not thrown a pass in an NFL game for two years but Payton believes he will not be overawed, and the 62-year-old will tailor his gameplan.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
Former captain Jamie George says England should embrace the occasion and not be overawed by New Zealand's reputation.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
He is 27, so should be at his peak, old enough to not be overawed by the Premier League stage.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
Outplayed and overawed in the first set, a superb backhand winner gave the Frenchwoman a crucial break in the second set.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2025
A moment later, I spotted the young Mr Cardinal not far away, still standing on his own, and it struck me the young gentleman might be feeling somewhat overawed in the present company.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
For some young players, the attention might be overawing.
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
The first album I'd ever bought was Ziggy Stardust and I owned all his others, so it was overawing, but he was really generous as a performer.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2013
Nowhere among these republics have great military establishments ever been maintained for the purpose of overawing or subjugating other nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Europe through which his couple move is one of soft colors, handsome but not overawing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of overawing the country, the appearance of the royal fleet in the Forth was the signal for Leslie's march with 20,000 men to the Border.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green
