dawning

One was the way Baker scampered off after his second win with a casual wave, an unconscious signal that it was dawning on him that the evening’s momentum might bring him back up there again.

“I didn’t realize I was in shock, but nothing would register in my mind. You know, until Thursday, it started dawning that, ‘Oh, my God, I lost everything.’

The frustration Thompson clocked is likely MAGA's dawning realization that Trump is not going to make their racist dreams come true.

But for the next four years, until the next presidential campaign, and forever after, there will be no end of people explaining how the outcome was clear as the dawning daylight all along.

His dawning horror toward the end of the movie is startling only because we realize that Roy might actually have some kind of conscience, his shark-like appetite for power eclipsed only by his student’s.