For some of these kids, video games are a way to passively experience the shock and awe of combat.
I watched in awe as he virtually caromed off the walls of the classrooms and hallways.
Rue told this story credulously, and there was no choice but to react with awe.
She was the girl to impress at Wellesley—and we were all in awe of her.
He was in awe of Tel Aviv, a gay-friendly city with Pride parades rivaling those in Berlin and Amsterdam.
Harvey always looked upon them with reverence, if not with awe.
He stopped and listened a moment in awe at the strange effects.
He found something mysterious, illusory, phantasmal about her which filled him with awe.
To men of forty or fifty, who are still unknown, no awe is due.
It came though—the wonder and the awe: and I look back with pride upon that day.
c.1300, earlier aghe, c.1200, from a Scandinavian source, e.g. Old Norse agi "fright;" from Proto-Germanic *agiz- (cf. Old English ege "fear," Old High German agiso "fright, terror," Gothic agis "fear, anguish"), from PIE *agh-es- (cf. Greek akhos "pain, grief"), from root *agh- "to be depressed, be afraid" (see ail). Current sense of "dread mixed with veneration" is due to biblical use with reference to the Supreme Being. Awe-inspiring is recorded from 1814.