Preferences went the other way for overawing, backed by 66%, and we may well conclude that its different treatment goes with having more than one syllable.
No doubt we were all supposed to be overawed by it and to think that it represented good value for money.
They went to local accountants, solicitors or banks, but often they were overawed.
Lastly, and this is the advice of excellence, those who are interviewed need not be overawed as they are to-day.
I know that there are some people who think that the proper way to keep crowds in order is to overawe them.
Even the medium-size firms find themselves overawed by the voices of the big companies which carry so much sway in employers' associations.
It is a clumsy attempt to overawe the authorities but it will not succeed.
They invariably begin by feeling overawed at the prospect of conducting a quasi-judicial appeal without assistance.
