(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.
Puzzlement
Definition:
(n.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(2) His comments have drawn puzzlement from bankers familiar with the financing of the presidential candidate’s business empire.
(3) The affair caused puzzlement among Kremlin watchers at the time.
(4) Now, when I talk with some others who were there that day, we share a certain kind of puzzlement over something we’ve noticed: many people who only experienced the attacks on television want revenge much more than my friends and I do.
(5) Once his eyes opened, he stared at the sun with a deep unearthly puzzlement and then at the sky around the sun.
(6) However, after the decision of the Malaysian owner, Vincent Tan, caused puzzlement at the Welsh club there is a recognition that the Scot's position is now precarious.
(7) In the sequence that may have caused most puzzlement among non-Britons, Boyle examined the rise of social media through a miniature soap opera, complete with a guest appearance from Sir Tim Berners-Lee and a collaged soundtrack racing from My Generation and My Boy Lollipop through Tiger Feet and Pretty Vacant to Dizzee Rascal live in the stadium.
(8) All such modifications often promote a loss of the subject's usual landmarks, a relative degree of puzzlement, sometimes even a destruction of pre-existing harmony that may impair the psychological balance of the subject.
(9) We’ve really enjoyed it.” Martin O’Neill, the Republic of Ireland manager, expressed puzzlement at Wales’s ascent from pot six of the World Cup qualifying draw alongside the minnows four years ago.
(10) She herself described her readers as "women and educated men", and expressed "puzzlement" when Margaret Drabble left her out of her 1985 edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
(11) They really could have just restructured at DHS how the NCCIC works to really move threats together in a comprehensive fashion, and a real-time fashion, where you could actually get some value out of it,” said Tony Cole, a top executive at the cybersecurity firm FireEye, who said he was hearing similar puzzlement from industry leaders about the new center.
(12) A useful therapeutic model embraces dilemma, promotes toleration of puzzlement, and views the therapist as editor of the patient's developing novel.
(13) This is a common source of puzzlement amongst some, but let me solve this apparent conundrum.
(14) Talking to developers ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco, one detects a sense both of puzzlement and excitement.
(15) His all-embracing attitudes caused widespread puzzlement.
(16) The puzzlement extends to British officials and business.
(17) Kenyatta's assertion is likely to cause puzzlement.
(18) There was puzzlement at the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
(19) What was interesting was how present and real the bull felt to me, how close the animal's pain and puzzlement was.
(20) Within the country, the mood was one of puzzlement – and abandonment.