Sentence examples for palpable awe from inspiring English sources

Scarily still and infused with palpable awe, they alternate between proto-photographs, made on the eve of the medium's invention, and carefully appended and reconstructed fantasies of a lost empire seen through eyes steeped in European and Greek art.

The playwright Doug Wright's attempt to understand Charlotte's life he subtitles his script "studies for a play"—makes no claims for its subject; yet beneath Wright's witty fondness for his character there is a palpable awe at her demure daring.

And the Belgian Thierry De Cordier has recently created a series of majestic paintings of mountainous seas that embody and convey a palpable sense of awe, even fear, in the face of wild nature.

Twinned opening scenes — the first involving a giant, alabaster-skinned biped sacrificing himself to propagate life on Earth, and the second, thousands of years later, devoted to scientists' finding traces of his presences — impart a palpable sense of awe.

It was Borg's fourth straight victory in Paris and his sixth in eight years (he did not play at all in 1977 because of contractual conflicts), and there is still a palpable sense of awe tinged with embarrassment among the proud, less-gifted men he beat up on red clay along the way.

When the lights rise after three full hours of Kwaidan (including a chapter performed by non-Austinites Antoni Maiovvi and Timothy Fife), there's a palpable mix of awe and restlessness in the crowd.

Smith's wonder is palpable and the psychedelic, awe-filled nature of his character almost makes it seem like the part was written just for him.

He added that one will be "awed by Madonna's palpable life force and intelligence.

The reverence was palpable.

The sense of pride and awe and intellectual excitement of all this is palpable.

The excitement, fear and awe the Wright brothers must have felt is palpable when you're up in the air.