Kind of like "shock and awe," but without the Fox News graphics.
It pulls you in and then pushes you away, so that you leave saying, "Wow, how awful" without having experienced a full measure of awe.
In "The Don Giovanni Moment," Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht write that the ending imagines "life without awe," a truly human existence beginning on the other side of tragedy.
He's so accomplished a creator of images, so adept at humanizing the monstrous, so fearless an architect of awe, that even without major movie stars in the cast, the scenarios he throws himself into are invariably difficult to resist.
"That's a while," Mr. Jasperse said, not without a little awe, before letting loose a peel of his trademark laughter.
"But Diller and Scofidio demonstrated there was something exciting you could do with this place without being in awe of it".
Probably everyone, at one time or another, has been worn out by an uninspired documentary that trumpets the wonders of nature without eliciting any awe.
An adaptable businessman with gentlemanly values, he did not take Westminster parochial politics seriously enough to embarrass or rival his wife, but was prepared to control his scepticism for the sake of a woman whom he always regarded as special without being in awe of.
