Sentence examples for awe from inspiring English sources

"I was in awe of her, certainly," he says, looking into his coffee cup.

I had grown up with her pictures and was in awe of her, and also taken aback by the mismatch between the soft, deep, clear beauty of her black-and-white photos that contain every shade and grain of grey and the unassuming, unadorned figure she cut.

He is also obviously very skilful and I am still in awe of the way he controlled the ball in that goal against the Spaniards.

"Kembra," Hegarty says, with a certain amount of jealous awe, is "the most hardcore future feminist really".

In the hundred degree heat, Paul McGrath, dodgy knees and all, gave the grittiest defensive performance I've ever witnessed (at the other end of the pitch, legendary defenders Franco Baresi and Paolo Maldini must have looked on in awe), and Ray Houghton scored the winner.

Recent headlines don't inspire the same sense of awe.

When the Serb beat the Spaniard 7-5, 6-1, 6-1 in less than two and a half hours on a warm, still afternoon in front of an awe-struck audience on Court Philippe Chatrier, to advance to the semi-finals against Andy Murray on Friday, he not only tore up the record books, he left a considerable psychic bruise on the outgoing champion.

"What people are doing down there, across all the services, is awe-inspiring; the way that they are going about it not just professionally but their concern and consideration for the scene that they are dealing with.

So far, those linked with Rangers are hardly of awe-inspiring quality.

Once we caught up with one, it was heart-stopping stuff: I got within touching distance of this awe-inspiring animal, and saw manta rays, turtles and dolphins.

Selma has a best drama nomination that certainly reflects the early, awe-struck critical and audience reactions to a film about civil rights which, in the light of recent events in Ferguson and elsewhere, could hardly be more relevant.