Sentences with phrase «even awe»

When I arrived at Peru's «lost» Inca citadel in the clouds, I was expecting to round the path beneath the guardhouse, walk through the main gate, and find myself overcome by wonder, even awe, at the scene before me.

Perhaps over time, the special effects will eventually look dated, muting the one major asset of the film, but until then, it is still an impressive, sometimes even awe - inspiring action flick that will hold the interest of most, even if it makes you wince whenever the characters have to talk to one another.

Zero Dark Thirty, like the mission that inspired it, commands respect, admiration, even awe in places for the logistical nightmares that had to be overcome to get it done.

Beautiful, theatrical, sometimes even awe - inspiring, yes... but in the category of «ready - to - wear,» who is ready to wear this and to where?

The point being stressed here is that conscious experience is a radically new emergent in the evolutionary process, and required and still requires an extremely complex, even awe - inspiring set of conditions; and yet it emerged and still emerges out of entities which are not totally different in kind.

The word originally meant a marvel, something which was so extraordinary as to attract attention, wonder and even awe.

It even awes pitchers.

(As well, though I remind myself constantly that these giant corporate forces in our society exist for «the love of money,» I'm at times impressed by, and even awed at, their accomplishments.

Not exact matches

But even more than that, I'm in awe of my co-founder, who brings so much to the table that I don't — and I feel honored that he chose me — chicken poop and all — to be his wife.

The ways he moves with the ball and the control he commands over its movements is awe - inducing, even to casual fans of the sport.

Even if you are a Falcons fan whose Super Bowl hopes and dreams were sent to the locker room shocked and awed by the Patriots, it's hard not to like # 88, Martellus Bennett.

«For eight months, she got up in front of these people who couldn't even hear her and gave speeches,» says Michael, managing to sound both awed and amused.

So seek out opportunities to feel dwarfed by something much bigger than yourself and your problems, such as gazing at the night sky, hiking through inspiring landscapes, reading up on the mysteries and grandeurs of physics, or even checking out an awe - inspiring YouTube video if you're stuck at your desk.

And the coming decades will see even more cities across the globe competing with one another to build the tallest, most awe - inspiring skyscraper.

But, even as he's gigging the moguls, Wolff is openly in awe of them, frequently bemoaning (with a knowing wink) his helpless adoration.

John Michael says they wandered the property in awe for almost an hour before even entering the house.

I feel the same awe when I think of how much had to occur over billions, even trillions of years in order for me to be here, how we are all interrelated, that we are made of stardust.

people really need to study the bible — not for Christianity sake but for theirs - the athiest would like everyone to understand them and used this phrase — But when I explain that atheism is central to my worldview — that I am in awe of the natural world and that I believe it is up to human beings, instead of a divine force, to strive to address our problems — they often better understand my views, even if we don't agree.

Even if your god created the universe, that alone doesn't deserve worship, just awe.

Therefore, I felt that my philosophy and theology should not be permitted to separate, but that within their unity it should be possible to affirm the awe - inspiring otherness of God even more uncompromisingly than Barth had done, since he returned to reasoning by analogy.

Even primitive societies were aware of it, and it inspired not only feelings of religious awe (many expressions of which are found in the Bible itself) but also the earliest attempts at mathematical science.

Even so, looking at the transfiguration in conjunction with other Christophanies reminds us that such texts speak uniquely of Jesus Christ in ways that evoke from the church awe, fear and worship.

When understood in their full significance, even so - called natural happenings are surprising and awe - inspiring.

We had gotten them the night before, in a candlelit evening that seemed to breathe contentment and awe.

In emergencies he even triumphs over those imposing characters whom the average man has always visualized with so much awe [ibid., pp. 21 - 22].

But even more attractive, in my view, than these plausible reasons for Abraham's silent acquiescence in the horrible request are the following: (1) Abraham had learned, in the episode over Sodom, that the pursuit of righteousness may require sacrificing your own; (2) he felt and feared both the awesome power of God and also His righteousness; and, especially, (3) he had understood immediately the meaning of the test, namely, that he was being asked to show what was first in his soul: Was it the love of his own (and of the promise and the covenant) or was it the fear - awe - reverence for God?

And though it may seem abstract, even small, I think this single thread of wonder — this thread of tireless thankfulness and awe at what he'd been undeservedly given, at what he saw in the beauty of creation and in the story of the Gospel — is what binds all of Lewis» work together.

Revelation 6:12,13 Note that these things would happen «before» the «awe - inspiring day of God» so they would be a warning to get people's attention (if they are paying attention) that the day is approaching but it's also said that not even the son knows the day but only the Father and it would be as a thief in the night.

How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic origins, experience a sense of awe and beauty, and display an attitude of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even when suffering under conditions that are brutal and horrific?

Although religious awe might need to stop at the door of the laboratory, a scientist can still be inspired by it, as were Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, and even Darwin.

All of us in our varied ministries tend to be awed by the structures and potency of the establishment of Baal, even though we know, somewhere down there in the timid, secret resources of faith, that all the stuff of Baal doesn't make God — power, technological sophistication, machismo, sex, political, military, and economic domination, energy independence (ha!).

And they were filled with great awe, and said to one another, «Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey him?»

I came away from my evenings with Kaplan in awe of his intellectual acumen, his encyclopedic knowledge, and most of all of his integrity.

Even now, more than ten years later, I remain awed by their valiant struggle, mounted at great personal cost: drained finances, lost privacy, media scorn, impugned motives, death threats — and eventually Bob's death, which the family believes was caused by the stress of watching helplessly as his daughter died by court order.

Even an explanation of the actual «big bang theory» (not just popular understanding), something truly existing out of nothing (rather than just not knowing yet where it came from), is absolutely awe inspiring.

I feel a sense of awe and humility when I look at it; I would even consider it a sacred object even though I am not a religious person.

I can imagine no greater anguish than making a choice defined by those two sentiments; I am in awe of the many parents that have made it on behalf of life, even knowing the consequences.

This emptiness initially strikes us as a mysterium tremendum, that is, an awe - inspiring and even terrifying abyss.

Even today a visit to the Gettysburg battlefield elicits awe and heartbreak, which the hundreds of monuments there are meant to evoke and express.

How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic origins, experience a sense of awe and beauty, and display an attitude of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even under conditions that are brutal and horrific?

Although I held it in awe as being sacrosanct, possessing even an element of the mysterium tremendum, I knew that it could be manipulated by the leverage of power.

Adams was impressed by the industrial revolution that had occurred in America during his lifetime, but perhaps he experienced even greater awe in contemplating the intellectual revolution.

We can not help but act out what is in our hearts and what I am saying is our speech, our body language and even our dress could reflect our sinful hearts showing a lack of reverence and respect for God, or could even show proper awe and respect.

(204) And do thou (O Muhammad) remember thy Lord within thyself humbly and with awe, below thy breath, at morn and evening.

Now this version of the Resurrection and Ascension excited awe and wonder in the minds and hearts of those who heard it, but at least it was meaningful and even to a certain degree reasonable within the ancient world view.

You said, «At a minimum we know God was not manmade because we can not even begin to picture the awe and wonder of our creator.»

And, it became evident even then that in proclaiming to know certain things that others didn't, one could gain respect, awe, fear — wealth.

Even the tools by which Man is expected to achieve his heaven - on - earth — science and education — are no longer held in quite the awe they inspired before their joint endeavors brought humanity under the shadow of the hydrogen bomb.

And as he thinks about them, in awe and wonder of his observations, he comes to amazing conclusions... He looks at himself, even the wonderful make up of his own being, and he begins to understand that there is more to him then it meets the eye.

Even in the novels where God is an active, demanding presence, encounters with the numinous inspire awe but rarely confidence.