(n.) The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
(v. t.) To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(2) I have had the awe-inducing pleasure of standing alone among the giant trees, both sequoias and redwoods, and hearing nothing but the chatter of the squirrels and the high wind in the tallest branches.
(3) Let’s leave that discussion to another day, but imagine a combination of the two – sort of Transformers meets Ex Machina – in which a race of giant sexy robots battles it out with another race of really mean giant sexy robots while paltry human beings look on in awe, and teenage boys (and girls) experience incredibly conflicting and disturbing sensual awakenings in the front row of the Beckenham Odeon.
(4) But as a professional engineer, Alwash admits to having been in awe at what Saddam's men had done.
(5) An activist has discipline, goals and strategy.” Amy K. Nelson (@AmyKNelson) Amazing scene here at QuickTrip: exiled Tibetan monks here & people are in awe, hugging them, wanting photos.
(6) From where he stood, the Real Madrid coach watched in awe as barely metres away Gareth Bale started the sprint that ended with him scoring what he admitted was the "biggest" goal of his career: a 50-metre gallop that won the Copa del Rey for Real Madrid .
(7) The world is in awe of China’s relentless capacity to produce gargantuan cities, each outdoing the most recent superlative that describes its predecessor.
(8) He’s sensitive, intelligent, rather awe-inspiring and slightly frightening, but he is a real person, you can get really involved in him.
(9) One day they hope to recreate a full-size, ocean-going replica Roskilde 6, and send it across the sea to awe rather than to terrorise the coasts of the British Isles.
(10) Are we fighting for a better understanding of what is going on in our sport or are we trying to get power?’” Saddique Shaban (@SaddiqueShaban) No let up in Kenyan athletes siege at Roadha House as besieged officials watch in awe.
(11) But it was awe-inspiring to watch Rivers try: she had the stamina of someone (several someones) a fraction of her age.
(12) Of course a father looking at the ultrasound image of his gestating, 20-week-old daughters is going to feel love and awe and the majesty of life, and deeply feel that those are his babies and that they are people.
(13) Despite pressure from leaders in Europe and across the world – from David Cameron to Barack Obama – the ECB has resisted calls for a "shock and awe" intervention in the bond markets to support countries such as Italy and Spain, which have seen their borrowing costs soar in the past two weeks.
(14) A surgical intervention is dangerous for the old patient awing to the reduced reactiveness and polymorbity.
(15) Malton says she is "in awe" of how he goes about the work.
(16) The right has spent almost every moment of the last six years painting leftists as people gazing in blissful awe at Obama.
(17) When Spielberg asked him to design the mothership for the climax of Close Encounters, the artist drew on a dream from years earlier, in which he had seen an awe-inspiring spacecraft with pipes and stairways jutting out from its underside.
(18) He liked the band, and we gave him $10,000, which was probably a big influence.” Their second (far more unlikely) collaboration with P-Funk main man Clinton was such a success that the mere mention of his name sends the band into a love-glow of awe.
(19) Only a rare few have accomplished this noble journey and can attest to the feeling of awe that accompanies such a moment in one’s life.
(20) Yet in the face of the country’s political and media establishment warning Greeks to vote yes – echoing every major European leader (and quite a few faceless ones) – and the shock-and-awe tactics of the European Central Bank in pulling the plug on Greek banks , the country still delivered a loud no to austerity, troika-style.
Awesome
Definition:
(a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
(a.) Expressive of awe or terror.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year, we have started building better tools for moderators and for admins to help keep subreddits and Reddit awesome, but our infrastructure is monolithic, and it is going to take some time.
(2) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
(3) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(4) The best way, perhaps, to sum up the awesome strength of this Spanish squad is to look at the category-A footballers who did not even start this match – a list that includes Pepe Reina, Cesc Fábregas and Fernando Torres, quite possibly the best goalkeeper, midfielder and striker in England last season.
(5) He's awesome," Rodman said of Kim – comments that were immediately attacked by those who tend to focus on North Korea's human rights record.
(6) The international players on the Spurs, and there are an awful lot of them, are representing their home countries which is kind of awesome to see.
(7) It is early days, and what is to say the people of Gateshead or Cardiff will be quite so forthcoming with the exclamations of "cool", "awesome" and "neat" as the audience in Oxford.
(8) We approached a community of women, members of a "platform for awesome women" called The Li.st , to find out.
(9) The exercise by a state of its most awesome power – the power to deprive a citizen of his life – must be accompanied by due process and complete transparency.
(10) He said he was grateful that the attack was bringing the community together and that it was “awesome honestly to be able to give people a hope that not everybody hates everybody”.
(11) Whenever the Austrian director shows one of his films in Cannes, I always come out thinking the others might as well just pack up and go home because they'll never reach his awesome heights of control and precision.
(12) Another curiosity - LeSean McCoy was held well under 100 yards that day, and he's awesome.
(13) This must be the most awesomely authoritarian project to emerge in western Europe since 1945.
(14) If you are trying to analyse a game, don’t stop at, “if I just added sniper rifles to this, it would be cool” – think about all the ways that adding sniper rifles could really hurt the game; try to understand design as a precarious balance, not just a shopping list of awesome shit.
(15) Maktabi cites responses "that range from 'I want to have this now because I want to try it with my boyfriend'", to "I want to write about the anthropological impact of this app on…", and adds that his favourites are "those anonymous messages that just say 'awesome'".
(16) It is just so awesome to see how the crowds are out there,” said Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, who added that she ended up stuck in her car after protests shut down traffic.
(17) The “biscuit” and “football” are the embodiment of the awesome, civilisation-ending power that will be put in Trump’s hands on 20 January.
(18) Camera Awesome The hit iOS photography app snapped onto Android this year, with just as impressive a range of photography features focused on taking better shots, not just on sharing them.
(19) "That's no criticism to girls who can wear a tiny dress and kill it – that's awesome.
(20) I think it's going to age well – when I played it yesterday it sounded fucking awesome.