How To Use Overawe In A Sentence
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I'm just finishing up a study about how one group of people used overwhelming displays of violence to overawe and terrorize another group into docility and obedience.
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The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.
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No doubt he is a little overawed by the array of rugby knowledge here so let's give him a fair chance.
Times, Sunday Times
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If anyone had thought that the global elite was not overawed by a little stardust, think again.
Times, Sunday Times
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The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
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What's certain is that she won't be overawed.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there.
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Now that she was due to walk out on to the stage herself she became overawed with admiration.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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We were not overawed by their reputation as world champions, however, and physically there wasn't too much in it.
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She is overawed by the moody magnificence of Glencoe, and entranced by the beauty of Edinburgh.
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The goddess, clad in a diaphanous robe, overawes the medieval demoiselles who have gathered to admire their reflections in a mountain pool.
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She was excited to ride in exalted company, but she would not be overawed.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am overawed by their brilliance, in what once must have been seen as an impossible task.
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Two years on, Buchanan admits he was overawed by the Olympic experience in Sydney.
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It stood in its own park, with a lodge and a drive, partly to give privacy, partly to impress or even overawe visitors.
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If anyone had thought that the global elite was not overawed by a little stardust, think again.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is hard to say how this came about; perhaps because unconsciously she felt in Bazarov the absence of anything aristocratic, of all that superiority which at once attracts and overawes.
Fathers and Sons
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Actually there's a point of view that the visitor centre is on rather a homely and unimposing scale, and that as the years go by it will become more of a rarity amongst those that overawe their attractions.
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We were the only people in there at the time and the silence completely overawed us.
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As the players' status has grown, broadcasters in particular seem to have become totally overawed, so that nowadays most post-match interviews are conducted with such a desperate air of nervously ingratiating chumminess, it's like the class nerd has found himself sitting on the back seat of the school bus next to the lads in the leather jackets, with the menthols and the bottle of mixed liqueurs nicked from their parents' drinks cabinet.
Who's the sycophant in the black? | Harry Pearson
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But they said they were "overawed" by the amount of support and practical help they had had from people in Bristol, revealing that they had received many cards and letters of sympathy from well-wishers they had never even met.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The entire metropolitan centre possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant, and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.
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Achilles 'shield does not paralyze its beholders with a frightful monstrosity, but overawes them with its impression of divine artifice, an emblem of the irresistible destiny of its bearer.
Ekphrasis and the Other
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Many were overawed by the occasion though, with one of the Highland entrants taking exception to the crowd's enthusiastic applause.
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The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
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Could it be that at 14 he was slightly overawed by the occasion?
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It may come down to whether he is overawed by both the presence of Woods and the whole Masters occasion.
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She was overawed by the presence of so many people.
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Don't be overawed by people in authority, however important they are.
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She would have been delighted, and perhaps a little overawed.
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They refused to be overawed by Brazil, and came out fully confident in their ability to win.
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I was overawed and fully believed everything they told me.
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No doubt he is a little overawed by the array of rugby knowledge here so let's give him a fair chance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of the players were totally overawed by playing their first game at the national stadium.
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If anyone had thought that the global elite was not overawed by a little stardust, think again.
Times, Sunday Times
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What's certain is that she won't be overawed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet after a first half in which Jim Telfer's men looked overawed by the English and conceded the advantage, they began to claw their way back into the game.
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Crouching underneath two huge, tired-looking horse chestnut trees, we were overawed by the treasure trove among the fallen leaves.
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He showed that he was not overawed by the England shirt.
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As the succession of canvases delights the eye and overawes scrutiny, there is renewed reverence and increased respect.
Waning Genius in Venice
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The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
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She had been somewhat overawed at first by their guest's fame.
SANDS OF TIME
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I've never overawed by your threat.
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As long as the dome overawes, that facade is supportable.
The Newcomes
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Butler, though a man brave by principle, if not by constitution, was overawed; for intensity of mental distress has in it a sort of sublimity which repels and overawes all men, but especially those of kind and sympathetic dispositions.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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It is hard to pick out one man who overawes the others.
The Chimes at Midnight
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And for a moment the thought rose in my mind, What if he were overawed by this imposing array of power and brains?
Chapter 5: The Philomaths
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We prize them for their rough-plastic, abstergent force; to get people out of the quadruped state; to get them washed, clothed, and set up on end; to slough their animal husks and habits; compel them to be clean; overawe their spite and meanness, teach them to stifle the base, and choose the generous expression, and make them know how much happier the generous behaviors are.
The Conduct of Life (1860)
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Why be overawed by the task, or cowed by the abounding unbelief and false religion of our day?
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I, like many a sailor before me, became overawed by this magnificent bird when sailing the southern oceans.
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An overawed young curate is having tea with his vicar.
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Although it can not solve the security problem fundamentally, it can overawe criminal in some degree, and it may provide some important clue after things happened.
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People in England are kind of overawed by that because they're not used to quite that level of self-assurance in their women in public life.
CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2009
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So long as he has only conventional weapons we can overawe him with our armed forces and clobber him back into line if he misbehaves.
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The goddess, clad in a diaphanous robe, overawes the medieval demoiselles who have gathered to admire their reflections in a mountain pool.
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He was totally overawed by his father.
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She was seated upon the edge of it, and I was beside her, with one knee on the floor, clasping both her hands in one of mine, while the other still encircled her body, holding her tightly against me in that rhapsody of love which overawes all sense of understanding.
Princess Zara
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He wasn't overawed by the thought of working with the National.
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To his rear a revolt of Pueblo Indians and unreconciled Mexicans was crushed by Price in January 1847, while Doniphan with 600-700 Missouri volunteers overawed the powerful Navajo.
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She would have been delighted, and perhaps a little overawed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The abbot, neither overawed by the strength nor by the quantity of the potion, took it off with what he himself would have called a feeling of solace and pleasance, and his voice became much more composed; he signified himself as comforted extraordinarily by the medicine, and willing to proceed to answer any questions which could be put to him by his gallant young friend.
Castle Dangerous
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The attendant physician, possibly overawed by the eminence of his charge, gave a warning which, in the wisdom of hindsight, he probably regretted for the rest of his life.
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Gordon himself was a real charmer but he puts on this volatile act for the cameras and I think our chef was totally overawed by him.
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Handkerchief was overawed, and with surly looks he led three of his men aboard the Reindeer.
White and Yellow
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Though I believe in artistic egalitarianism, I was overawed by the big names.
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They had some big names in their squad but we weren't overawed, especially since a few of them were past their prime.
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The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
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He insists he is not overawed by the challenge of winning the South.
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You respect them for who they are, but you can't let that overawe you.
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Having eaten there but once - and I was a guest so didn't have to pay, either - I was almost overawed by its excellence.
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We may have no big names of stars on our team but they are all triers to the last and will not be overawed by the reputation of the Dubs.
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Liberal, beneficent, and traditional ideas have returned to their rightful place through the dispersal of the odious and despicable factions which sought to overawe the Councils.
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She is overawed by the extent of the old-style dance revival and says she has had to put on extra classes to cope with demand.
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Clearly overawed by the presence of the police, the woman withdrew.
TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
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Even the man who ironed clothes near Jayashri's home was overawed and showed her new respect.
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Clearly overawed by the presence of the police, the woman withdrew.
TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
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He was overawed by the rows of desks tiered as in a movie theatre, each equipped with multiple laptops and surrounded by giant screens.
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The younger players were overawed by the occasion and played badly.
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No big occasion or additional responsibility will overawe him.
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Some of the players were totally overawed by playing their first game at the national stadium.
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The Greeks were plainly overawed by the display of armed strength and were putting their own rifles away.
Charley's Coup
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A two-wheeler's maintenance can be done anywhere; for a car, you have to take it to the company workshop and many people in that segment are overawed by these workshops.
Is the Ultra Low-Cost Car Dream Over?
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They say ignorance is bliss, and that proved to be the case because I wasn't overawed in that first game.
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He certainly didn't look overawed as he stepped on to the first tee and smacked his drive a mile down the fairway.
US Open 2011: Rory McIlroy into final round with eight-shot lead
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Though she has just reached puberty, she is not overawed by a sage, howsoever famous he might be.
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Some of the players were totally overawed by playing their first game at the national stadium.
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Religio Laici: Written in a Letter to John Dryden, Esq
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It stood in its own park, with a lodge and a drive, partly to give privacy, partly to impress or even overawe visitors.
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He was overawed by rather grand surroundings.
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I'm overawed with the beauty of some things and incredibly saddened by others.
A New Tour and a New Audience at 70
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He overawes his opponents, and their allies are prevented from joining against him.
Archive 2007-10-01
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I made no sign, but out of the corner of my eye I saw that the Yellow Handkerchief had discovered the emptiness of the pocket which had hitherto overawed him.
White and Yellow
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Patel admitted he had initially been overawed by the occasion.
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Terror is the concurrent reaction to that which repels or overawes.
SENSE OF THE TRAGIC