irreverence

How To Use irreverence In A Sentence

• Often the pave is a spatter of the fallen mangos, its slippery condition of no import to the barefooted Tahitian, but to the shod a cause of sudden, strange gyrations and gestures, and of irreverence toward the Deity. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
• Rabelaisian ditty, a gross amazing jest, a chuckle of deep Satyric humour; -- and the monstrous "thickness" of Life, its friendly aplomb and nonchalance, its grotesque irreverence, its shy shrewd common-sense, its tough fibres, and portentous indifference to "distinction"; tumbles us over in the mud -- for all our "aloofness" -- and roars over us, like a romping bull-calf! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
• All in all, the set was full of hearty laughter, laced with a healthy amount of irreverence and irony; it will please Engvall fans.
• Indeed, 7 Stories has all the makings of an absurdist comedy, but beneath its veil of irreverence lurks a vehicle for lofty, provoking ideas.
• I think of his profound irreverence, his constitutional opposition to any kind of pomposity or pretentiousness and irreverence and an opposition that, as far as I could tell, were part of the fiber of his person. WFMU's Beware of the Blog:
• I thought he was very truthful and very funny, and I was drawn to his rebelliousness, the irreverence.
• Thankfully, Kerrigan's personal, unapologetic film on rave culture maintains its irreverence.
• There is a bit of sarcasm too that leavens the portrayal at times but it never veers to irreverence.
• But you know it will all return, with more intensity, more wickedness and more irreverence - and so will you.
• Not only is their action unsociable but it also displays an irreverence to the memory of the dead soldiers it commemorates and a disrespect for those people who have spent so much time and money on looking after the monument.