(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.
Overwhelmed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Overwhelm
Example Sentences:
(1) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(2) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(3) T cells admixed in the germinal centers were overwhelmingly of the T-helper type.
(4) Unfortunately for the governor, he could win both states and still face the overwhelming likelihood of failure if he doesn't take Ohio, where the poll found Obama out front 51-43.
(5) In Britain, the European election is overwhelmingly seen through the prism of domestic politics.
(6) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
(7) The government acknowledged it had been overwhelmed by the devastation from the deadliest quake in Nepal in over 80 years.
(8) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(9) Although alpha 1-antiprotease (alpha 1-AP) binds and inactivates NE and is the major antielastase of the lower respiratory tract, antielastase defenses may be overwhelmed in CF, leading to progressive lung damage.
(10) And HAP has shown that the key finding that debt slows growth was driven overwhelmingly by the exclusion of four years of data from New Zealand.
(11) Cathepsin D-like acid proteinase existed overwhelmingly in the mucosal layer and was hardly detected in the gastric juice.
(12) Hence, reaction of chemical carcinogen with nuclear DNA is possible only when the cell is overwhelmed leading to cell death, or following a temporary breach of the nuclear membrane control points, but the DNA damage in the latter is totally reparable.
(13) The facts are clear: the overwhelming majority of EU citizens in Britain are contributors, not freeloaders.” But that was not the official position of any of the parties involved, so it went mostly unsaid.
(14) Of 54 patients with poor-grade aneurysms, ventriculostomy was placed in 47 (87.0%) and yielded high ICP's in the overwhelming majority, with the mean ICP being 40.2 cm H2O.
(15) There is overwhelming evidence, today, that such factors are involved in the manifestation of acute as well as chronic, non-specific as well as well as specific inflammation.
(16) Mobile phone networks, overwhelmed by demand, were down for hours, with authorities advising people to use email or text messages instead.
(17) The immunity was enacted by an overwhelming bipartisan vote, with the support of leading Democrats including Barack Obama, who had promised - when seeking his party's nomination - to filibuster any bill that contained retroactive telecom immunity.
(18) There’s an overwhelming sadness among kids like that who have been kept there for a very long time.
(19) Panic attacks would overwhelm her periodically and she experienced regular “ scanxiety ” – the feelings of dread that grip patients before new tests.
(20) In the meantime, Malaysia Airlines’ overwhelming focus will be the same as it has been from the outset – to provide the families with a comprehensive support programme.