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As with Schindler's List , many reviewers celebrate Spielberg for creating a film of "emotional and moral weight" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that awakens the public to a historical tragedy.
The book's conceit--an artist awakens in a world of monkeys that mirrors modern "Swinging London"--is alternately judged a "slender idea for satire" (Kakutani) and a hilarious metaphor for "the modern urban savanna" (Gary Krist, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here for Sarah Kerr's review in Slate and here for an excerpt from the book.)
The phone ringing in my cabin awakens me; it's the conning officer on the bridge making a report of a vessel that we have in sight approximately 12 miles away.
The common reference to “finally the sleeping giant awakens” when conferring on Mexican American social-political issues is made often by educated and acculturated Chicanos, manifesting an internalization of an image imposed from outside the Mexican culture.
It is spoken even in Transylvania: A beautiful girl awakens in bed to find a vampire at her side.