Sentences with phrase «awestruck wonder»

The precision and ingenious application still leaves the viewer with awestruck wonder at the grand vision that only he can execute.

It takes a little time to get used to it, but after a few minutes of awestruck wonder, most participants realize how easy scuba diving actually is.

It takes a little getting used to — after all, human beings weren't designed to do that — but after a few minutes of awestruck wonder, most participants realise how easy scuba diving really is.

Movies about backstage drama tend to fall into one of two emotional categories: awestruck wonder and cynical self - martyrdom.

Egotheism, by contrast, is awestruck wonder and thanksgiving to God for the staggering miracle of unrepeatable life, the utterly unique self - consciousness that enables one to say «I.» In a 1960 remembrance of his childhood, Updike traced his transcendent sense of self - importance to the mystery of being an incarnate ego: a self within «a speck so specifically situated amid the billions of history.

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And then he concludes:» [A] s knowledge of our universe matures, that ancient awestruck feeling of wonder at its size and duration seems inappropriate, a sensibility left over from an earlier age.»

Under the surface, Lake Michigan bears little resemblance to the freshwater wonder that left early European explorers awestruck with its teeming herring, trout, sturgeon, perch and whitefish.

Thanks to these experiences, during my undergraduate studies I became awestruck by the wonders of evolutionary biology.