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 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
They have not quite matched the show sometimes given by workers at the Venetian arsenal, who would assemble a galley in a single day in order to overawe visiting foreign dignitaries.
From Economist ● May 16, 2013
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
There is something in the pyramids which overawes our boasted civilization.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson
His prestige overawes the unofficial aristocracy of the House—always the most difficult section.
From The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay
In the midst of a wilderness, at every step, one meets with tokens of a bygone power that overawes the imagination.
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi
Neither looked overawed until O'Rourke returned for another nasty spell late in the day.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Widdicombe said he was "giddy with excitement, honoured and a little overawed to be given the chance to step into the biggest shoes in television".
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Both are experienced, so are unlikely to be overawed if called upon.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025
She was not overawed by this occasion, carrying the weight of the British number one tag at Wimbledon amid an electric atmosphere, with the crowd eager to celebrate her every success.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
Despite his haste, his panic, his fear of what awaited him back in the bathroom, he could not help but be overawed by what he was looking at.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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
The Europe through which his couple move is one of soft colors, handsome but not overawing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nowhere among these republics have great military establishments ever been maintained for the purpose of overawing or subjugating other nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Buckingham himself undertook the task of overawing the nobles and the gentry.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green
