noun
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A feeling of fear and reverence.
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A feeling of amazement.
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Power to inspire awe.
verb
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To inspire fear and reverence in.
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To control by inspiring dread.
Examples of awe in a Sentence
Jessi didn't have to look to know where Xander was; a look of awe crept into the faces of both teens.
Carmen leaned against the nursery window, gazing at them in awe - Alex at her side.
We shook our head in awe.
Too much in awe of his father to make him a confidant, he wrestled in the gloomy solitude of his own mind.
She and the Germans stood in silent awe, too drunk to feel the cold.
Happiness, fear, awe … The gloves were off this night.
Everyone who passed looked on with awe.
Shiny things make people stare in awe and want to touch.
Do you live in reverent fear / awe of who Jesus is?
Jennifer looked in awe.
Once again, we were in awe of the results.
An air of reverential awe attended the dead King.
While my eyesight becomes increasingly more indeterminate, my vision is filled with awe and wonder.
Opposing signs can easily experience a strong attraction to one another based on factors such as aesthetic appreciation, lust, envy, or awe.
Uranus is the planet of shock and awe; surprises you would have never have anticipated.
Watching IMAX for the first time will leave you in awe of the quality of the film, the resolution and immense size.
Are they in awe of the selection and suddenly energized?
As the truck came to a halt in front of the house, she stared up at it in awe.
The then king of Seville, Motadhid, one of the small princes who had divided the caliphate of Cordova, was himself a sceptic and poisoner, but he stood in wholesome awe of the power of the x.
The Grail is here surrounded with the atmosphere of awe and reverence familiar to us through the 1 The etymology of the 0.
His myth, to be afterwards narrated, is found pictorially represented in a tomb and in the late temple of Philae, is frequently alluded to in the litanies of the dead about 1400 B.C., is indicated with reverent awe by Herodotus, and after the Christian era is described at full length by Plutarch.
Others might have labored to seek the Christ, or any of a thousand potential projects of mind bending awe.
Bianca watched in horror and awe as the two men fought.
In spite of the breath-catching vertical drop-offs, boulder-strewn tilting and rolling Jeep roads with their impossible angles of ascent, the solitude of being able to stare for miles and miles in any directions with not a soul in sight—all this melted away to a sense of awe and peace that made any anxiety evaporate like mountain mist on a summer morning.
After expressing suitable awe at this rare sight, I let myself down.
Not to feel awe is to miss something that is there to be apprehended.
In doing so we have been deterred by no superstitious awe before the title deeds of tyrannies or empires.
This holy awe or dread has never touched their spirits.
The local children found this a highly amusing sight and flocked to the windows of the corridors to watch in silent awe.
We were in absolute awe of Robert and Grant - thought they were the Bees Knees - still do.
The only area in which Rise & Fall actually succeeds in being truly awe inspiring is, unexpectedly, in the naval warfare.
As we watched in awe another male appeared and then a female.
The huge basilica has magnificent stained glass windows which are awe inspiring for both the believer and the non believer.
He was full of faith and he was so contemplative and so meditative and so in awe of the supernatural.
This corresponds well with the single date known from Loch Awe and in general with the dates produced from other mainland freshwater Loch bodies.
His extraordinary, stoic bravery earned him unconditional tributory awe from the Establishment, and the affectionate family nickname ' one leg ' .
After being expelled from various schools Greg and Adrian met through a combined awe of Dan's guitar prowess and long hair.
Quite often they were in awe of someone's prowess (quite often their own) with a hacky sack or skipping rope.
In Ireland, if you put sixpence under yer pillow, the fairies come an take awe yer teeth oot!
However, this respectful nod of awe is also appropriately necessary.
Four women day workers, spoken of with reverent awe, earn - 13s. a week.
Quite often they were in awe of someone 's prowess (quite often their own) with a hacky sack or skipping rope.
Even my guitar playing sons were in awe of Anoushka 's sitar performance.
In Ireland, if you put sixpence under yer pillow, the fairies come an take awe yer teeth oot !
At AWE the application of sol gels for the manufacture of thin film coatings for the optical components of the Helen laser is described.
Nonetheless, faith likes to grab a hold of these mind-boggling images as an expression of that speechless awe.
We were all a bit awe struck by him and his story, he was such a sprightly character.
We look with awe and wonder at the courage they displayed and their stoicism in the face of six long years of conflict.
Everything connected with love was made a mystery of, and treated with a kind of superstitious awe.
Women swoon at my feet, men whisper my name in awe, and children cheer when they see me.