be awed

It’s hard not to be awed and a little afraid of these machines, and our fiction reflects those fears.

But Argentina's coach Michael Cheika is not one to be awed by All Black magic.

Looking across the Serengeti at herds of honking wildebeest, most of us would be awed by the exuberance of these migrating masses, resplendent in their magnitude.

Waiting for her five years ago in the restaurant of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, I had been prepared to be awed, intimidated, even terrified.

“I like to be awed, as at the pyramids in Egypt,” she said in a 1997 interview with The East Hampton Star.