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
It is the religious aspect of your enterprise which impresses and overawes men of every sect and party.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
Proud thoughts that Image overawes, Before it humbly let us pause, And ask of Nature, from what cause, And by what rules She trained her Burns to win applause That shames the Schools.
From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp
It seems to me that any wilderness untamed must have that same effect; it overawes one.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Her odds of winning matches are certainly favourable at Wimbledon, especially if she faces a relatively inexperienced opponent who may get overawed by what is bound to be an electric occasion on Centre Court.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Neither looked overawed until O'Rourke returned for another nasty spell late in the day.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
The German second seed could meet Djokovic in the semi-finals but has regularly looked overawed when they step on court at the Slams.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
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
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
And in that presence there was a mingling of exquisite tenderness and of limitless power that was overawing.
From Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
