Assertion: cynic | /r/CapableOf | watch in a kind of awe
Facets:
value: at appomattox
type: LOCATION
value: as arguments
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The cynic watched in a kind of awe as arguments that had failed in Philadelphia in 1787, and at Appomattox in 1865, were trotted out as revolutionary new concepts in freedom and something vaguely defined as "liberty.