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And our writer asks if Damien Hirst — the art world’s darling of the ’90s, with his $12 million shark in a tank — will awe critics with his first new show in years.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2017

There is nothing which will awe them into silence, or even make them forget themselves.

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul

The great cathedral of Notre Dame will awe him; but not more than his own Westminster Abbey.

From Shakespeare's England by Winter, William

A man ablaze with holy indignation, and having a secret ally in the hearts of those whom He rebukes, will awe a crowd even if he does not infect them.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

The daring will awe the Barons, and foreigners themselves; it will give a startling example to all Italy; it will be the first brand of an universal blaze.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron