What is "overawed"

Usage examples of "overawed".

The various multitudes of Europe and Asia, exasperated by recent animosities, were overawed by the authority of a single man.

Her only companions were the overawed Vispi servants who called her White Lady and believed that, because she wore the old Archimage's cloak, she also had Binah's power and wisdom.

Silently they gathered around, a little overawed by the strange, crypt-like feel of the UnderFlow Pool and the flickering, unearthly blue light reflected from the lapis lazuli.

Gringe, still a little overawed by the Palace, hurried past and disappeared into the shadows of the Long Walk.

Actuated, or overawed, by the same popular frenzy, the senate, without requiring any evidence of his guilt, pronounced the sentence of her death.

But his awareness of further details of the ruins was overawed by his attention to the monolithic structure that totally dominated Arellarti.

Mosiah, in particular, was overawed at what he had seen of the enchanted city and its people, who seemed so far above him in appearance, culture, and education that they might have been heavenly angels.

Outwardly he seemed a quiet modest man and yet… It was nothing he said even if one admitted being overawed by his background and influenced by prior knowledge.

He had not been overawed by the pomp of the council and its illustrious members, but had spoken out like the honest, simple soldier he was.

She was clearly overawed by his reputation and by the serpent staff that Taita was pointing at her.

At first the young couple were restrained and shy, still overawed by the momentous awakening that they had shared, but soon their natural high spirits reasserted themselves, and they joined in the banter and the chatter, although their eyes kept meeting and almost every word they uttered was aimed at the other.