It was an early awakening. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an awakening interest in ballet. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : a rude awakening to the disagreeable facts. From Dictionary.com.
It is an awakening from the narcissism of reading. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The time for a national strengths awakening is now. From Wordnik.com. [Jenifer Fox: Strengths Movement Can Revitalize Schools] Reference
Finally, Superdelegates are awakening from the spell. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton adds third new superdelegate in 24 hours] Reference
The pain of awakening is apparently too great for him to face. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from class. « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference
This was startling news to one just awakening from a sound sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference
One feels as if the town is slowly awakening from a languid sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Malinalco, Mexico - A Font Of Mexico's History] Reference
The role that folk tradition can play in such awakening is suggested by. From Wordnik.com. [National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest] Reference
Their awakening is what the story is about ... it's not about the solving. From Wordnik.com. [M. Night Shyamalan Had 1950’s Sci-Fi In Mind For ‘The Happening’ » MTV Movies Blog] Reference
The novel records Frankenstein's awakening from a similarly happy, impossible dream. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations] Reference
You in America are finally awakening from the long deep sleep and I am proud of you. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » The attack on Patrick Fitzgerald begins.] Reference
Even his spiritual/ethical awakening is played for laughs and implied to be shallow. From Wordnik.com. [the a-team] Reference
Just seeing that wide eyed face as the little box falls to awakening is just so enjoyable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
However, the path of self actualization or more importantly, spiritual awakening is a perilous one. From Wordnik.com. [Does God Have a Future? (Part 3): Has Satan Been That Bad Really? | Disinformation] Reference
Lesters mind had been dulled by the American Dream, and his awakening is fraught with learning and discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Over / Under: American Beauty « FirstShowing.net] Reference
There's no reason to put NASA into the commercial suborbital tourism business. someone awakening from a food coma. From Wordnik.com. [Lack of Discipline = Slaughter of the Innocents - NASA Watch] Reference
Among those who had a premarital education awakening is Daniel Stoica, 26, an electrical engineer from Fullerton, Calif. From Wordnik.com. ['With this doubt, I thee wed': Some know marriage will fail] Reference
With an almost comical smile, Susan then looked up as if awakening from a deep sleep and asked, "Has something happened?". From Wordnik.com. [Jindal’s Exorcism - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
Gregor succeeds in awakening to his True Nature, the coincidentia oppositorum of character and narrator, or part and whole. From Wordnik.com. [Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites] Reference
Let me prove to you that my confidence in Canada's awakening is more than mere rhetoric to please members of The Empire Club. From Wordnik.com. [Money is a Coward] Reference
In these hard economic times it appears as if America is awakening from a long slumber of 30 years and discovering something new. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
"Well, the awakening was a rude jar, I must confess.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee] Reference
It was the end of a beautiful dream; and the awakening was a hard one. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
His sleep was full of horrible dreams, and his awakening was a rude one. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine] Reference
An essential part of the awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Or "awakening" -- protection force, like those the U.S. military has funded in other areas. From Wordnik.com. [In Baghdad, young militiamen] Reference
That is the meaning of the movement I have described as the awakening of the West and the resurrection of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The New Jerusalem] Reference
"Many of the groups in the awakening are the same men who used to kill and displace our people," one protested. From Wordnik.com. [By the Way - We're in Iraq Forever.] Reference
The government, in fact, of Baghdad have declared some time ago that they are against the so-called awakening in Anbar. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2007] Reference
As for St. Cleeve, the tardiness of his awakening was the natural result of inexperience combined with devotion to a hobby. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
It was a night or two after I had tasted it that I had what just now I called my awakening, and began to think about Africa. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Child] Reference
All that he recollected of the events preceding his awakening was his shout to the boys to be taken aboard after the fog closed down. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest] Reference
Canada, who recalled awakening from a deep sleep in her tent near Yellowstone National Park to find she was being chewed on by a bear. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
LEMON: It's called the awakening program, and it's aimed at getting insurgents to turn on their other insurgents to win the war in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2008] Reference
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