The Head Nigga may be right in the strictest sense, but I'm still inclined to agree with Burbank. I think we mostly use the word "awe" in a positive context.
For instance, compare these two conversations:
Steve: "I just got a $10,000 raise."
Jim: "Oh, man, that's AWEsome!"
Steve: "We're going to massacre about 100,000 innocent people!"
Jim: "AWEsome!"
They don't have quite the same ring. Like I said, I see what HNIC is saying, but that's one of those "letter of the law/spirit of the law" things.
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