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The first album I'd ever bought was Ziggy Stardust and I owned all his others, so it was overawing, but he was really generous as a performer.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2013

And in that presence there was a mingling of exquisite tenderness and of limitless power that was overawing.

From Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)