awe-inspiring

Speech parts

1. awe-inspiring - Adjective

2. awe-inspiring - Verb

3. awe-inspiring - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

Alternative names

awe inspiring

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Examples

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it. Herbert Simon

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? Kahlil Gibran

Burglars! Good gracious!' cried the little woman, springing from the bed in one bound. The word 'burglar' was a terrible one to her, as it is indeed, to every well-constituted woman. 'Robbery' does not sound nearly so awe-inspiring. L. Frank Baum

I held my breath, for to me there is nothing more awe-inspiring than when a man discovers to you the nakedness of his soul. W. Somerset Maugham

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. Laurie Anderson

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