Definition of AWED

Examples of awed in a Sentence

gave the nationally known golfer an awed look

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The film awed critics, and McKenzie’s heart-stopping performance heralded the arrival of a star. — Lauren Mechling, Vogue, "Rising Star Alert! Meet New Zealand’s Thomasin McKenzie," 7 Dec. 2018 Translation: Be prepared to be awed and overwhelmed. — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, "15 Best Things to Do in Seattle," 16 May 2018 In keeping with this tenor of awed hero-worship, Hemingway’s repeated patterns of punishing women whose attentions wander, even for legitimate reasons, is rarely recounted. — Dana Snitzky, Longreads, "Hemingway’s Last Girl," 12 July 2018 Its tone was both awed and suspicious, with constant references to a hot, possibly gullible, market in contemporary art. — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, "Jean-Michel Basquiat Is Still an Enigma," 24 June 2018 This is the most reliable pairing in crime fiction, the eccentric genius and the awed bystander to it — Holmes and Watson, Salander and Blomkvist, Poirot and Hastings — and the real Horowitz, lurking backstage, plays it perfectly. — Charles Finch, USA TODAY, "These 4 new mysteries are guaranteed to heat up your summer," 13 June 2018 The audience sat in awed silence for a full minute before thundering its approval. — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, "Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the CSO in an eloquent Mahler Ninth Symphony," 18 May 2018 Nicholas Hoel is the heir to a family art project—several generations committed to photographing, once a month, the growth of a chestnut tree—that has instilled in him an awed appreciation of human transience. — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, "The Novel That Asks, ‘What Went Wrong With Mankind?’," 11 May 2018 Like a perfectly sharp chef’s knife, the Hugo 2 leaves me awed by its precision but also bruised by its merciless sharpness. — Vlad Savov, The Verge, "The Chord Hugo 2 is the worst kind of audiophile equipment," 24 Apr. 2018

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