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  • s  affected by or overcome with wonder

  • Poet Sandburg, in his keening, wonder-struck voice, reads a selection of the short poems that have fueled his public recitations for years.
  • In his TV debut, Playwright Jerry Mc-Neely, 29, deserved credit not only for an original fancy but for making his fable's dilemma both wonder-struck and plausible in the telling.
  • Saturday she was Peter Pan both morning and afternoon, zooming on concealed wires out over the heads of gasping, wonder-struck children.
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  • Phil Lesh in San Francisco Chronicle
    Sometimes it happens onstage, or sometimes in rehearsal,Lesh writes of his post-Grateful Dead ensembles, "but it always leaves me breathless and wonder-struck: The music is still there, waiting for us to approach, to open ourselves, to let...

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