Sentence examples for figure of awe from inspiring English sources
But to me she was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit.
Until then, writes the art critic Richard Dorment: "Willy was to me a figure of awe and slight intimidation.
Kagame's turn toward despotism is forgiven because Rwanda is arguably the best-managed country in Africa, and, while Kagame is a figure of awe among Africans, including Burundians, Nkurunziza is, increasingly, an object of contempt and ridicule.
He was a figure of awe to 14-year-old Allen Konigsburg (Woody Allen), who - along with some friends at New York's celebrated Circle Magic shop - introduced himself to Berle, another customer, as somebody nifty with cards.
To his enemies, he was a figure of fear and hatred – one of the monsters of an evil system; to his colleagues and subordinates he was a figure of awe – the general who reorganised the military and then reorganised the country along military lines.
In a statement, Streep called her "a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit".
Blacking out, talking to himself, seeing visions, prone to sudden explosions of fury, he is a figure of both awe and awfulness, and, incidentally, a sensational reminder that collapse can be vigorous.
Blair emerges as other Iraq historians have already portrayed him, as a pathetic and self-regarding figure in awe of the transatlantic power.
In the song, Hillman recalls the children of the town and their cruel laughter at this colorful figure, as well as the combination of awe and fear that he elicited in the townsfolk.
[1] Many of us in the global health community can only look upon that $2 billion figure in awe because of the potential for those dollars to be repurposed to immediately and dramatically improve the lives of the poorest people who suffer from disease.
He is also the central figure of Simon Reynolds's Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy (Faber), a useful and entertaining survey of a period of social and cultural experimentation in the 1970s that takes in Marc Bolan, Alice Cooper, Slade, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, the New York Dolls, Wayne/Jayne County, David Essex, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Cockney Rebel, Ultravox, Iggy Pop and Kraftwerk.
