Wowing Martha when they meet on Valentine's Day (in a first-date sequence that Mr. Castle lets drag on too tamely), Whitman soon reveals his darker side.

To the Editor: Of course there will be readers of "Wowing Them With Excess in the Hamptons" (front page, July 18) who will say that these very expensive houses assault the earth's finite resources, using excess wood, gas, electricity and so on.

"We want people to come and have a wow experience."

You have to keep the wow factor in your work.

What work of art first made you feel the wow factor?

"The board did want something that - when the new space opened - would be a wow experience," he said.

In the video Bow wow shows two parts of the story.

I remember thinking back wow where can operating systems and hardware go in the future.

The wow in the Dow certainly made a lot of people richer.

The grandfather I live with thinks my legs would be a wow in them.

As it turns out, the wow factor cannot be manufactured.

If the tree's not enough of a wow factor for you, the products are fantastic too.

This put the students right there inside the solar system, creating the "wow" effect I was after.

The wow factor is clearly on the minds of organizers these days.

"We're looking for things in our hotels that are extraordinary and give you a wow factor."

"I bring it to meetings and it's got the wow factor".

This is the ultimate "wow" party dip, especially for game day!

The other three projects are skimpy on the wow factor.

WoW is running out of ink for the 100 bill press.

That element is love, and wow do I feel it."

But sometimes, he said, the "wow" comes simply from revisiting the familiar in a new way.

Bette wants the tour to be a "wow kind of experience," she said.

"There is some sort of wow factor to the 35-pound cat in your Manhattan apartment."

When we left Yellowstone people said they had enjoyed it, but where was the "wow" factor?

He stared at the dead man with huge brown eyes, his mouth open in a little "wow" of excitement.

Of course, you could argue that they're not in the wow business, and you might be right.

When preparing any dish, I look for the biggest "wow" factor with the least work.

After being asked the question "How would you wow me on a first date?"

I wanted to wow the outside world with my sense of drama.

At the network, he tried to wow his new colleagues.

You can wow them, coming and going, with a good back exercise routine.

"I've got something that will really wow them," he said.

Even the most retiring people can learn to wow a crowd, he wrote.

Each speaker tried to wow the crowd with yet another discovery.

But the west side of Central Park does not wow everyone.

They look for ideas that will wow the audience and edge out the competition.

The elves wow to come for him if he doesn't better himself.

With this motivating daily advice, you'll wow yourself in the next 30 days.

Likewise, don't try to wow the group with your brilliance.

"Let's sleep on it and see if we can't dream up something by tomorrow morning that'll really wow them."

At the final, they tried to wow the jury by performing the original version of their running songs.

If you want to wow him with your exotic or sophisticated paint job, wait until after sunset.

- is now trying to wow a much tougher house, the one made up by America's Nielsen families.

That's right, I thought, wow her with your intellect.

If not, don't try to wow me with needless precision please.

Smoky eyes, red lips and messy top knots wow this season.

His first sketches didn't wow the Warner's people - they thought he made the movie look too much like a love story.

"Gee, Reed, you really know how to wow a girl."

Gadget/electronic manufacturers need to wow more than ever to get our bucks.

Gina gives her best shot to date, but still doesn't wow the judges.

In the process, he discovered that it was possible to wow an audience with lines that have been around for 2,000 years.

The food won't wow anyone into submission, but people usually come here too late/hungover to care.