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.
This sort of pomp and circumstance is thrilling as a child and a bit embarrassing as an adult, but maybe we never quite shake our earlier, atavistic awe, and our later sense of sophisticated, ironic detachment is built on unstable foundations.
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From a very early age, I was a fan of awe.
Adam has had to dismiss an early sense of awe towards those with whom he shares a training pitch.
Walter Cronkite: Witness to History, an American Masters special on PBS tonight, tries to recapture that early sense of awe and skates serenely across the surface.
Monstrous and marvellous, like Durer's rhinoceros, it is a testimony to the awe early human beings felt for the animals they hunted.
NASA, for instance, is filled with people who grew up on Star Trek and Star Wars, and credit those early moments of awe as kickstarting their careers.
The early colonists were awed by the vastness of the flocks, which contained hundreds of millions — perhaps billions — of birds.
The early colonists were awed by the vastness of the flocks, which contained hundreds of millions perhaps billions of birds.
The glory of Lean was that, with "Lawrence," he summoned his earliest memory of awe and, perhaps for the last time, restored our illusion that a mass medium could be a miracle.
