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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by or inducing a sense of wide-eyed wonder or excitement, as in response to an amazing achievement.
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Examples
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Brady Corbet to follow her around, awaiting her delivery of a tag line for a photo that looks like a post-bomb-blast runway, contorted model corpses strewn about; her parents' toast turns into the airing of dirty laundry, and Michael, her gee-whiz groom-boy can barely muster the "luckiest man on earth" line that
Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012
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I find myself taken with the gee-whiz interfaces like this only to lose interest after a few days This one looks a lot better than most.
digital music 2010
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His American, gee-whiz newspaper prose, delivered in 60 short chapters, each on a ball and its game, is perfect for this kind of simple, enthusiastic history.
Play Ball! John W. Miller 2011
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"I can't tell you why they haven't caught him with all their gee-whiz toys," he said.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Meanwhile quality reporting from the MSM involves pundits and ‘experts’ shouting at each other for ten minutes while the host (sometimes playing ‘expert’) uses some gee-whiz gadget to display completely irrelevant, confusing and/or misleading (at best) visuals.
Listen to this: “Bad Bank” from This American Life… « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2009
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The new book is not just a typical gee-whiz recitation of recent developments but a profound proposal for the nature of reality that turns on its head the conventional view of how physics operates.
Victor Stenger: The Grand Accident Victor Stenger 2010
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Any subject — or book — that requires time and effort to master, particularly if not filled with action or gee-whiz amazing facts, is termed “boring.”
August « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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I predict kids will enjoy Let's Rock Elmo because of the fun factor, not because of any gee-whiz tech.
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Any subject — or book — that requires time and effort to master, particularly if not filled with action or gee-whiz amazing facts, is termed “boring.”
Symptoms of Decline? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Once he gets over the gee-whiz factor of the technique, the actual task is deathly boring, and it can be hard to maintain focus.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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