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Example sentences for: awe

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Some critics (such as the New York Times ' Maslin) nearly fall out of their chairs in awe at the operatic splendor of the music and pageantry--"blazing with exquisite yet abstract passions."
The great religions are a product of the same sense of awe.
It was, however, built to inspire awe.
But if David O. Russell can't (yet) make his absurdist vision mesh perfectly with his moral outrage, he deserves our awe for having pulled off the mixture as well as anyone since Coppola in Apocalypse Now . (And Three Kings is a lot less messed-up than Apocalypse Now .)
Puffed-up with conceit, he takes in a new piece of evidence by raising his eyebrows, expelling a "hmmm," and spinning around to announce his latest theory to locals who regard him with a mixture of awe and embarrassment.