awed

adjective

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Definition of awed

: showing awe awed respect

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gave the nationally known golfer an awed look

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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 Yet the last major biography of the man — A. Scott Berg’s 2013 Wilson— emphasized his complexity, taking a somewhat awed measure of his unlikely rise and failed idealism in seeking global peace after World War I by championing the League of Nations. — Matt Damsker, USA TODAY, "Was Woodrow Wilson a racist? New biography of the president takes on the question," 2 May 2018 Parental panic attack: From quips about his awed commentary filming his kids' soccer game to being irritated by their unruly friends on a bad play date, Sandler displayed the love and annoyance that come with parenting. — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Adam Sandler filmed his Milwaukee concert for his Netflix special. Here's what to expect.," 19 Apr. 2018

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