awestruck

For truly positive experiences, "awestruck" is my favorite.

Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Stunned 2005

He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince."

Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

Stanley Matthews had his "bodyswerve", of course, a mysterious action that was always talked of in awestruck tones but never truly explained – the football equivalent of transubstantiation.

Ashley Young has a turn of phrase to go with the tricks Harry Pearson 2010

"Two," he said, in awestruck tones; "there never was such a nipper!"

Harding's Luck Edith 1909

And Miss Tabitha, who really was not very deaf when she set herself to hear, nodded in awestruck silence.

The Cuckoo Clock 1893

There was a pause, and then I asked, in awestruck tones, "Will the angels fetch papa, do you think?"

Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls 1872

Today, she's proud of her daughter and is "awestruck" when she's at one of her premieres.

Kerry Washington and mom Valerie: A picture of love 2010

Dr Chris Beard, curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, was "awestruck" by the publicity machine but concerned that if the hype was exaggerated, it could damage the popularisation of science if the creature was not all that it was hyped up to be.

[evolution] and its shoddy tactics 2009

Dr Chris Beard, curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, was "awestruck" by the publicity machine but concerned that if the hype was exaggerated, it could damage the popularisation of science if the creature was not all that it was hyped up to be.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

Finnegan howled and spluttered in inebriate rage, then sank back in his seat and stared up at Arabella with a kind of awestruck respect.

Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983