(1) The young people that one speaks to,” she writes, “they’re agog that you spent a day on a bus with Beyoncé, they’re thrilled that you had an encounter with Eminem, they think it’s absolutely insane that you met Madonna.” “Just all those freedoms,” says Patterson, marvelling afresh.
(2) The world looked on agog as Tim Cook, the head of Apple, said his company had paid all the taxes owed – seeming to say that it paid all the taxes it should have paid.
(3) She meets him only once, when he comes to the agency to have lunch with her boss; she notices that his hair is neatly combed, but she is too agog to take in much more.
(4) On the day we met last week, the papers were agog with economic Armageddon, as the new French president flew off to Berlin to face a German chancellor whose austerity creed appeared to be on a collision course with France's new mission for growth.
(5) I was agog at how difficult it must be getting a buggy down and across the gap, which is sometimes considerable.
(6) They were astonished that she had succeeded, and agog for the results.
(7) A week earlier, Sugar had looked agog when it turned out that Poulton had already found a collaborator to handle the coding for his proposed business idea – a framework for creating mobile games.
(8) Naval watchers will be agog to know whether Russia can keep three large ships on the seas without one of them breaking down.
(9) Legal London is agog with news of the fees Jonathan Sumption commanded.
(10) Obviously the world is agog to see what Cumberbatch makes of the role; and it would be idle to pretend that his TV and movie-fame is not a major reason for the excitement.
(11) The River Tiber will flow with much blood,” Powell had said, quoting Virgil, moved to prophecy because of an annual influx of 50,000 migrants, and because one of his constituents had told him: “In this country in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.” For a moment, I observed, agog, the students listening, rapt.
(12) In general, gay visitors were no less agog and aghast than the straight out-of-towners who made up the rest of the audience.
(13) There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The world is agog to see what Benedict Cumberbatch makes of the role.
Awestruck
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(1) It's this unsettling montage of re-enactment, confessional and political exposé that grabbed the attention of doco-godfathers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris – both executive producers – as well as awestruck critics the world over.
(2) I was completely and utterly awestruck,” he recalls.
(3) Yet it had no influence: over the following 46 years, the divide has grown almost totally obscure, the average pop star growing older, grander and more statesmanlike, the average politician younger, more awestruck and deferential.
(4) Like those people who gathered, awestruck, in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall in 2002 to gaze at Anish Kapoor's monumental Marsyas installation, festivalgoers gasped and goggled at Malick's film.
(5) It is closer to some kind of symphonic cine-poem, with movements rather than acts or scenes: memories of an unhappy childhood are shot through with visions of the universe, agonised, awestruck epiphanies of scale.
(6) There was a scene in episode three that was so awesome – in the sense that I was awestruck by the scale of the set – that it was really humbling.
(7) Their pleasure is to be found in having their lovely friends measuring the weight of their baubles, and being awestruck."
(8) and awestruck girls silently mouthing every word to every song, it is difficult to be cynical.
(9) He sounds awestruck, as well he might, since he's witnessing at a distance of a few metres things that leave us slack-jawed in our living rooms.
(10) It is impossible to tell what a film is really going to be like from a trailer, but here the awestruck tone is obvious.
(11) Standing beside his leather-clad backing band 3RDEYEGIRL, the diminutive pop maestro thanked London for making him feel "extra loved" and handed out the best British female award to an awestruck Ellie Goulding .
(12) It is based on awestruck reports about the ageing and drunken Errol Flynn's chaotic appearance on Sid Caesar's programme Your Show of Shows in the 50s.
(13) When one of my cousins-a-million-times-removed contacted me from Australia via Facebook to tell me that she'd been composing a family tree and I was on it, I was awestruck with admiration.
(14) I f atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima.” Robert Oppenheimer’s words in 1945 remind us today, 70 years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, how the brilliant Los Alamos scientists who produced the deadliest weapon ever conceived were awestruck by what they had created.
(15) First-time visitors are often awestruck by the desert's vivid colours.
(16) Although there are no facilities to speak of, its otherworldly drama attracts awestruck tourists year round.
(17) Commentators are awestruck by the old man's sheer "chutzpah" (BBC) , with a "you've got to hand it to him" note of admiration all round, restoring the "morale" of the Sun newsroom.
(18) She sounds awestruck when she talks about her father.
(19) Simultaneously knowledgable and awestruck, Fattorini managed to turn the climax to a throwaway 10-minute segment about Napoleon’s favourite booze into a genuinely compelling piece of television.
(20) Discussing the Cambridge assault, Sweeney told Harris: "You were clowning around and took advantage of the fact that she was somewhat awestruck.