The latest preview for X-Men: Apocalypse does its title proud, delivering awe-inspiring destruction on a colossal scale.
Their deep, emerald clarity delivers the awe factor I had hoped for.
Fortunately, the gloom lifts to ensure that a visit to Skógafoss, seen in Thor: The Dark World, delivers enough awe to keep me outside in the rain and spray.
"We can't deliver continuous awe for an infinite amount of time.
Johnson is supposed to be delivering shock and awe, I suppose, though so far he's been a little slack and poor.
We get an evocative gloss on a lesser Chekhov work; a funny, faintly sinister cameo featuring Esso gasoline ("Put a tiger in your tank!"); and a wobbly, wonderful set piece in which Tengo smokes hash and delivers an awe-struck stoner meditation on his brain.
But regardless of the award, there is, I think, a recognition that she has done something amazing with this role - delivered an awe-inspiringly human portrait of an exploitation so common, and so ignored, that it makes the news only when it involves some horrible death.
The ideas will be evaluated by a panel of judges who will decide on the winner based on a range of factors, including technical validity, audacity of their mission, and their ability to deliver an "awe-inspiring" TED Talk, the organization notes.
The Blue Rider gallery that follows continues to awe by delivering a blunt shock to the senses.
While a lumbering Pentagon cranked itself up to deliver "shock and awe" in Iraq, the agency's counter-terrorist centre became the hub for a campaign to kill or capture anyone connected with al-Qaeda.
Blending her own words, taken from the liner notes she wrote for "Matters of the Heart," what Ms. LuPone cares about is "the correct combination of lyric and note" that "always delivers chills, tears, awe.
