How To Use Reverence In A Sentence

(Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation. Pak Tea House
Applying the attribute of reverence to a mortal being borders on the blasphemous.
Dawkins did not share the town's reverence for the sea, nor did he have much time for those who risked their lives upon it. THE MAIN CAGES
But if lawyers and solicitors wish themselves to be identified as men of noble standing and exemplariness then they deserve the kind of reverence they will yield from the public should they decide to embrace Karpal Singh's call to sieve out bad hats. Malaysiakini :: News
Not only are they pushing the boundaries of irreverence, which is hilarious, but it is grounded in this humanity, this pain, this pathos, that goes beyond what we think of as comedy. USATODAY.com News

Hayes breathed out in reverence as he watched the day spreading across the planet.
La jeune fille is expected to remember that she is a daughter and owes reverence to her parents. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
The poem conveys his deep reverence for nature.
Either reverence, or deference, may have prevented him from bringing his prayers into entire harmony with his criticisms; or it may be that a discrepance, which we should constantly diminish, is likely to remain between our feelings and our logical necessities. Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
I do not know whence come this respect and this reverence.
A huge concourse of students, all but gaping with reverence, filled two rooms.
Goud has always exhibited a devilish irreverence for hierarchies, whether in art or in life.
The confederates then passed out from the council chamber into the grand hall; each individual, as he took his departure, advancing towards the Duchess and making what was called the "caracole," in token of reverence. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I
He is still held in great reverence throughout the country.
It was a classic piece of opportunism by Ryanair, the cut-price Irish airline, which has cultivated a reputation for irreverence and has a history of picking fights with the big guys. What Do We Do About Ireland?
The reverence accorded canonical figures, the faith that art was immortal, the fascination with an individual artist's character - he ridiculed them all.
His enthusiasm and commanding personality enabled him to influence greatly the work of many of his juniors, so that they came to reverence him as the founder of their careers.
I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
She bowed her head and made a cross over her chest in reverence of the departed woman.
He is still held in great reverence throughout the country.
At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles, also standing in the same posture of profound reverence.
Masonry reverences all the great reformers.
One writer noted that it was through such events that the ‘reverence for the flag amounting almost to worship’ acquired a ‘human face or word.’
Even ‘reverence for the emperor, the most important ideological buttress of the old order, was evidently giving way’.
If we reserve consecrated bread and wine and kneel before it, why should we not preserve the world with the same reverence?
But though in theory every living man and woman is merely an ancestor or ancestress born again and therefore should be his or her equal, in practice they appear to admit that their forefathers of the remote _alcheringa_ or dream time were endowed with many marvellous powers which their modern reincarnations cannot lay claim to, and that accordingly these ancestral spirits were more to be reverenced, were in fact more worshipful, than their living representatives. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
Kahlan speculated that their irreverence was their way of reminding Richard that he had freed them and that they served only by choice. Soul of the Fire
The music makes abundantly clear how much he learnt from his ‘ancient, & much reverenced Master’, William Byrd.
I wish to acquaint your love in Christ that the very zealous brethren who have been commissioned by your reverence to act for you in this good work have won praise for all the clergy by the amiability of their manners; for by their individual modesty and conciliatoriness they have shewn the sound condition of all. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Your Reverence, the syndic is a stranger; perhaps he has not heard of the blind. The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
His greatest strengths - the uncompromising determination, sharp-tongued irreverence, and unblushing idealism - turned out to be critical flaws.
Webster's defines fetish as ‘an object of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion… an object or bodily part whose real or fantasied presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification.’
However, this apparent irreverence toward the subject, an irreverence that is sometimes self-directed (which is the very definition of humor), is only Struth's lightness of being.
For all its wacky irreverence, it is also a rather touching story of moral decay in an uncivilized world.
Above all, the system is destructive of faith, having a tendency to substitute passive acquiescence for real conviction; and therefore I should not say that the excess of it was popery, but that it had once and actually those characters of evil which we sometimes express by the term popery, but which may be better signified by the term idolatry; a reverence for that which ought not to be reverenced, leading to a want of faith in that which is really deserving of all adoration and love. The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps
John is old and waiting to die but the prospect of death hasn't dulled his appetite for invective or his irreverence for the great and the good.
A mixture of anger, anti-establishment irreverence and workers' solidarity is documented by the 145 banners collected by the City of Edinburgh.
Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies, skeptics, self-seekers, into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole, and that which was ecstasy shall become daily bread. Uncollected Prose
He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness.
Can there be a more mortal, poisonous consumption and asphyxy of the mind than this decline and extinction of all reverence? The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal
A puckish irreverence, calculated to upend the cliché of the tortured master builder, is integral to his impressive resume. Building a Better Future
She can then begin to rewrite them, with a twist, with humour, with irreverence, with blasphemy even.
He added humor, irreverence, and a strong speaking style that captivated the audience.
Following the example of Anselm, who crafted his arguments for divine existence in the context of prayer, our theologizing was always conducted in a mood of worshipful reverence.
And in their zeal and submissiveness they are so innocently meek and "biddable" that they can listen with reverence to young Hyrum Smith publicly lecturing the grandmothers of the order for occasionally partaking of a cup of thin tea. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft
I'm still waiting for the culture to rid itself of its tiresome reverence of the 60s and kitschy kicky indulgence of the 70s, and explore the 80s as something other than an era of legwarmers, poufy hair, shoulderpads and Dallas.
When we relate this reverence to our experience of the sublime, we have a sense, however fleeting, of the transcendental.
They liked irreverence, taking the mickey, politically incorrect humour, mockery, satire.
&c. these formed a kind of aristocratic order, who were distinguished from the minor gods, or from the multitude of ethnic divinities, who were entirely local; that is to say, were reverenced only in particular countries, or by individuals; as in Rome, where every citizen had his familiar spirit, called lares; and household god, called penates. The System of Nature, Volume 2
The problem with Bill Kristol and his ilk is their reverence of this very limited option as the “go to” foreign policy option. Think Progress » George Will vs. William Kristol.
We do not know how earliest settlers viewed the forests, but the Celts deeply reverenced trees; indeed, the word ‘Druid’ is related to that for ‘oak.’
‘Water, big!’ said the ape-man, a reverence extending across his human-simian features.
She had the undoubting, uninquiring reverence which a Christianly educated child of those times might entertain for the visible head of the Christian Church, all whose doings were to be regarded with an awful veneration which never even raised a question. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
Grace reigning is a reverence of God, and gives honour to him who is infinitely great and high, and to whom all honour is due, than which what is more becoming or should be more pleasing to the rational creature? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
‘Just a tich of fever with it, your reverence, the doctor said,’ The Last Chronicle of Barset
Take a bite of his perfectly crusted, tender spareribs, and respect may turn to reverence.
On account of his rank and his services, people pay the bestarred and betitled old brute a sort of reverence; and he looks down upon you and me, and exhibits his contempt for us, with a stupid and artless candour which is quite amusing to watch. The Book of Snobs
Treasured by kings, wise men and people of discriminating taste for millennia, the aroma of frankincense and myrrh evokes feelings of warmth, comfort, majesty, reverence and peace.
The point of using the classics in this kind of playful reverence is that I always felt the classics had become stuffy through being academized-is that what the word is? Jasper Fforde biography
Children are taught to show respect and reverence towards their grandparents.
In reverence of whom, and for their sakes, he approved by divers arguments and reasons, that a man and his wife ought to abstaine from bedding together. The Decameron
There's usually some restraint, there's usually some sort of reverence for the death penalty, in a sense, because it is such an extreme sanction.
Delightful self-accountant reverence of author-craft! which wields full knowledge of a shaddock-tainted world, yet presents no licence to the prurient lad, reveals no trail to the suspicious moralist. Biographical Study of A W Kinglake
By contrast, in the Orthodox Liturgy, there is an air of reverence, as well as an atmosphere of informality.
ED with reverence, for she introduced them to European exotica such as avgolemono, osso buco and pissaladière. The Guardian World News
The woman's presence drew reverence from deep within Portia's soul, though Portia was unaware of the connecting path between their hearts.
the Chinese reverence for the dead
Heine can never lose the sharpness of his bite, for his irreverence is the eternal irreverence of the soul that neither man nor Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
He has his head in a handbasin and is clutching the taps in the school washroom while the prefects take it in turns to beat him for his lack of Christian reverence. Absolute Friends
She shared that knowledge with her human children, but in return asked reverence and care in preserving her bounty.
He was no apologist, but the glittering, near-feverish eloquence of his writing suggests fascination, almost reverence.
He habitually revealed that reverence for God which in Jewish devotion is the natural climax of true piety.
Her family had reverenced the House of Guru Nanak since the days of the Sixth Guru, and her son, Kanwar Ram Singh, now attended upon the holy guest.
Some of the world's greatest living conductors still speak my name with hushed reverence.
Not only does she inspire respect and reverence from the kids, they see her as the mother they never had, indeed the mother they ran away from at home, even as they desperately need her in the impersonal streets of Johannesburg.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6373
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Eftir the messis wer done with maist solempnitie and reverence, comperit afore him mony young and insolent baronis of Scotland, richt desirus to haif sum plesur and solace, be chace of hundis in the said forest. Chronicles of the Canongate
And the two senior priests, after bowing with reverence, enter the Sacrarium or wherever the Lord's Body is being reserved from the previous day and place.
She was much beloved of many here, although unionists had many problems with her irreverence and perceived sympathy for Irish nationalism.
Your reverence, I saw four pure black bulls who came from the four directions to fight in the palace courtyard.
But when the cicerone proceeded to point out a small hillock near the centre of the enclosure as the Prtorium, Corydon's patience could hold no longer, and, like Edie Ochiltree, he forgot all reverence, and broke in with nearly the same words --- ` ` Prtorium here, Prtorium there, I made the bourock mysell with a flaughter-spade. '' The Antiquary
The steps were brought to Rome in the first centuries of Christianity and are 7) reverenced still by millions of people every year, who pass up them on their knees, deep in 8)penitential prayer.
A long phase of reverence for rationality subverted his original, spiritually frenetic passion for tragic mythopoeia.
Under the influence of his reverence for those doctrines, he made up, from the pages of the Bible, with the use of a pair of scissors, a volume which he entitled the Philosophy of Jesus, and which he panegyrized as the most beautiful and precious morsel of ethics that existed. History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919
Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place.
In fact walkers are indeed kindred spirits - sharing a deep respect and reverence for the landscape, culture and heritage of the area.
Dr. Gene pointed out that the word in that verse is "unworthily" not "unworthy" -- an adverb, not an adjective -- it's about whether I approach the Lord's Table with a proper reverence and understanding of its significance. Gene Scott, RIP - BatesLine
I believe my aunt had been his tutoress; for it was his awe, his reverence for so superlative a Lady [I assure you!] Clarissa Harlowe
And whanne my felowes and I seyghe that, whan we comen in, wee diden of oure shoon, and camen in barefote, and thoughten that we scholden don as moche worschipe and reverence there to, as ony of the mysbeleevynge men sholde, and as gret compunction in herte to have. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
This city is said to be the mother-city of all the other Ethiopians: and they who dwell in it reverence of the gods Zeus and Dionysos alone, and these they greatly honour; and they have an Oracle of Zeus established, and make warlike marches whensoever this god commands them by prophesyings and to whatsoever place he commands. The History of Herodotus
If we reserve consecrated bread and wine and kneel before it, why should we not preserve the world with the same reverence?
We do, after all, have to coexist with our colleagues, even if we find some of them disagreeable if not downright objectionable - while regarding others with perhaps undeserved reverence.
Many of those who took part in the uprising accuse the ruling military of showing too much reverence to key figures of the old regime and lenience with senior police commanders accused of ordering the killing of protesters. Police, protesters clash for second day in Egypt
Burlesque is the voice of irreverence, low humour, plain silliness.
If a layman or laywoman received Mass, it was in the form of the wafer of the host only, and as a result the chalice became an object of almost superstitious reverence.
They were able to persuade people that Stonehenge should be a place of reverence and respect, and to deal with the tiny group of people who felt compelled to climb up the stones without creating a riot.
I stared at Isaac staring at Yahya's boy in reverence, and I, on the side, in the cool of the night, underneath brilliant stars, prayed that maybe we should just stay in that moment. Marc Gopin: Thanks to the Imam, My Little Son Got Serious About Synagogue
Just a smattering of grooms and judges and the salmon-hatted wives of supermarket sponsors waiting to hand out rosettes watch with a wake-like reverence.
Cultic reverence was demanded for the supreme leader, führer or vozhd, who sent commands down through a smoothly functioning hierarchy.
Ah me, that a man be self-subsistent, original, true, or what we call it, is surely the farthest in the world from indisposing him to reverence and believe other men's truth! Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Stephen sat across from Olivia on the futon with his hands folded on his lap, starring at her with what Adrian would later describe as reverence.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary -- This precept is frequently repeated along with the prohibition of idolatrous practices, and here it stands closely connected with the superstitions forbidden in the previous verses. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They get up and walk to the corner store, which Javier refers to, with due reverence, as a bodega. THE SAVAGE GIRL
Your good Moslem -- and a Moslem is good in those parts who makes a mountain of observances, regarding mole-hills of mere morals not at all -- affects to despise all giaours; but a giaour, like a gipsy, who has no obvious religion of any kind, he ranks below the pig in order of reverence. The Eye of Zeitoon
An anonymous letter was later received by Jim Gahan, declaring his daughter's death served him right because of what he had been saying about ‘His Reverence.’
He will be remembered with deep affection and reverence by the countless numbers of people whose lives he touched and influenced.
And there's something very wonderful and God-like about that unfolding that makes me want to reverence it.
In this temple dwells Jupiter: let its ruler convince you that it is to be reverenced.
I was: from any doubts as to which I was speedily relieved by the entrance of the priest's bare-footed "colleen," to deposit on my table a bottle of soda water, and announce breakfast, with his reverence's compliments. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1
One man with exactly that tone came and said, with a kind of supercilious reverence, "Is it possible that I now flash my optics upon a prophet? By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog
Should this headline be Mind Hacks blogger says 'psychologist' is overused by sensationalist media or the more direct Media exploits reverence given to arbitrary title, says psychologist? indiecognition Fun Experiment - Boing Boing
We lost the experience of oneness, of the essential dignity of human existence, the sense of awe and mystery at the heart of existence, a reverence for life, which is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
No woman, in she-devil skirts and corsets, can pay due reverence to our ancestors. THE TEARS OF AH KIM
But historically speaking, this reverence for language is deeply ingrained and persistent.
Printed miscellanies were not held in careful reverence - witness the torn pages, the splashes of ink, the thumbed texts.
The old tile-roofed village in the old green countryside, the Hwang Ho mightily flowing, a bell at twilight, lifeways and a reverence for them that had changed their outward guise only a little as the millennia swept past; science and machines could ensorcel a girl, she could snatch at a scholarship and lose herself in the marvels of city and university and a certain young man, but always, always she would yearn back. Starfarers
Graying now, its veterans approach the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (aka “The Wall”) in reverence, some shielding their eyes with their hands, lest they be seen shedding tears for comrades (and perhaps their own youth) lost. Honor is due
He is a sound Biblical Critic, who prizes and reverences the Bible tho' not a Bibliolater.
May not this breed an irresponsibility of cleverness, a wantonness, an irreverence -- what is vulgarly termed a "larkiness" -- on the part of the youthful genius who has, as it were, all his fortune in his pocket? Picture and Text 1893
They were told of how these sinners writhed and danced to their wicked music in an unholy reverence to their false idol.
She was in awe of the powerful old leviathan, and adjusted its controls with a naive reverence.
Dawkins did not share the town's reverence for the sea, nor did he have much time for those who risked their lives upon it. THE MAIN CAGES
His lifelong guilt came from allowing his mother to authorize a lobotomy on his sister; twenty years later, he still regarded his mother with both reverence and resentment.
Instead of being regarded with panic or horror, these relics are reverenced.
He removed his hat as a sign of reverence.
He had been reading the Report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth, and had found good things in it; but it was easy to see that he felt towards the author much as soldiers do towards the historiographer who follows the camp, more good nature than reverence for the gownsman. Uncollected Prose
The human body should be reverenced as a holy place would be.
So remote is this little place from the stir and bustle of travel, and so destitute of the show and vainglory of this world, that my calesa, as it rattled and jingled along the narrow and ill-paved streets, caused a great sensation; the children shouted and scampered along by its side, admiring its splendid trappings of brass and worsted, and gazing with reverence at the important stranger who came in so gorgeous an equipage. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
And he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with a tender reverence for her abysmal purity. I. Book I
M'Iver, who was the first to take watch for the night, paced back and forth along the lobbies or stood to warm himself at the fire he fed at intervals with peat or pine-root Though he had a soldier's reverence for the slumbers of his comrades, and made the least of noises as he moved around in his deer-skins, the slightest movement so advertised his zeal, and so clearly recalled the precariousness of our position, that I could not sleep. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Limited on all sides by conditions which they must have felt to be none of their own imposing, and finding everywhere forces working, over which they had no control, the fear which they would naturally entertain of these invisible and mighty agents assumed, under the direction of an idea which we may perhaps call inborn and inherent in human nature, a more generous character of reverence and awe. Short Studies on Great Subjects
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton
I have been told that some Orthodox Jews object to yoga because some of the poses look like "prostration," a position of extreme reverence that is due only to, well, Adonai. Anita Diamant: A Happily Bifurcated Yoga Jew: Why I Keep My Asanas and My 'Adonais' Separate
Scottish blood means persistence, English blood means reverence for the ancient, Welsh blood means religiosity, Danish blood means fondness for the sea, Indian blood means roaming disposition, Celtic blood means fervidity, Roman blood means conquest. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
Mr. Weller took a chair, and Sam took a box, and the umpires took what they could get, and looked at the almanac and one or two papers which were wafered against the wall, with as much open – eyed reverence as if they had been the finest efforts of the old masters. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
I was raised not to indulge in irreverence to God. Bowing to bigots « BuzzMachine
Templeton is like a temple for Bedloe, a place of highest reverence where deities are worshipped.
A great chest was filled with the ornaments of the churches -- sacred vessels, such as chalices, patens, monstrances, censers, chrismatories, etc. -- which we have now most carefully returned to their owners; so that your Reverence was enabled to fill four floats with these ornaments, in the solemn procession which his Lordship held in Manila on Trinity Sunday, in thanksgiving to God for the victory. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
For ages, any expression of so-called irreverence from their lips has been sin and crime. The American Claimant
They exchanged their parting reverences, and the Duke, so soon as the ladies had turned their backs, assisted Jeanie to rise from the ground, and conducted her back through the avenue, which she trode with the feeling of one who walks in her sleep. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Moore hoped, with his courtliest reverence, that Miss Berkeley had not forgotten him. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Then there is reverence for what is around us, reverence for our equals, to which he attributes an immense power in the culture of man. Paras. 25-51
And other societies (such as the Native Americans) ate and used animals but with a reverence and gratefulness for the lives that they were taking. Archive for » 2009 » May : Sustainablog
I feel a kind of reverence in late summer when I visit that abandoned butterfly garden.
So calmly was it done, so imperturbable were all the black countenances, that I half began to conjecture that the chaplain himself intended it for a hymn, though I could imagine no propsective rhyme for trouble unless it were approximated by debbil, which is, indeed, a favorite reference, both with the men and with his Reverence. Army Life in a Black Regiment
The group slowly filed into the small cell, circling the block in quiet reverence.
Limited on all sides by conditions which they must have felt to be none of their own imposing, and finding everywhere forces working, over which they had no control, the fear which they would naturally entertain of these invisible and mighty agents, assumed, under the direction of an idea which we may perhaps call inborn and inherent in human nature, a more generous character of reverence and awe. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
The room is furnished with a set of Roman emperors, -- they are not placed in their proper order; for in the mad revelry of the evening, this family of frenzy have decollated all of them, except Nero; and his manners had too great a similarity to their own, to admit of his suffering so degrading an insult; their reverence for _virtue_ induced them to spare his head. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
Respect and reverence for all religious and philosophical traditions is at the heart of democratic civil society which makes student newspapers possible.
With great reverence we laid it here in the Treasure House.
And to void accusations of irreverence, the production was protected by a meticulous mystique. PASSION IN THE PEAK
Readers will experience the love and reverence Walter Mosley has crafted into this encouragement affirmation of all humanity.
And is this shallow phraseman the renowned Doxodox whom I have been taught so highly to reverence? Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
Jem Darcy (the Lord have mercy on his sowl!) left me, must go to foreign countries to airn me bread, because I'm not good enough for his reverence. My New Curate
He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.
Mungo’s irreverence in chuckling over his own wit, and only farther alluded to it by saying — “We must give the old maunderer bos in linguam — something to stop his mouth, or he will rail at us from Dan to Beersheba. — The Fortunes of Nigel
Does your magazine like to use multiple, overlapping puns in their subheads that signal irreverence and a willingness to make nice to celebrities and their handlers?
The appropriate reaction to such a man consists in awe and reverence and humility rather than contempt.
He just sat there, with an expression crossbred between reverence and desire, whenever some big old gal got up to shake and shimmy. Goodnight, Irene
NOT the Hubble Space Telescope, though might as well be for the reverence he treats it with. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
The reverence shown for relics has roots in the celebration of the Eucharist over the graves of the first Christian martyrs.
Even different species of flora and fauna find a place of reverence.
With this Charles Shultz-like irreverence, the Swonkmeisters clue us in to their special spirituality.
Here he is, your reverence, -- a misfortunate angashore! My New Curate
Respect, honour and reverence for the Lord are the beginning of wisdom; those who act accordingly have a good understanding.
After the departure of Totila, the Roman general sallied from the port at the head of a thousand horse, cut in pieces the enemy who opposed his progress, and visited with pity and reverence the vacant space of the eternal city. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
He is still held in great reverence throughout the country.
The making of a proper Julep - and that discussion alone can end in gunplay - is a ceremony to be undertaken with proper reverence for the ingredients and for the occasion for which the Julep is being made.
On January 21st, 1580, the House adopted a resolution stating that Members "should depart and go forth in comely and civil sort for the reverence of the House; in turning about with a low courtesy like as they do make at their coming into the House; and not so unseemingly and rudely to thrust and thrung out as of late time hath been disorderly used. Summoned to the Bar
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton
Her love and reverence for her father and her pride in his attainments were very beautiful: and in order to appreciate what it was in him that inspired this great sentiment, not only in his daughter, but in so many leading men of that time, the eccentricities of the man whom the world called unpractical and visionary must be forgotten, so as to get a glimpse of the Alcott who was the intimate friend of Emerson -- a genius, a philosopher, an optimist, in spite of failure and in spite of opposition. Three Unpublished Poems
Baptist spirituality takes to heart the divine command to honor father and mother, and to reverence gray hairs.
White roses: unity, loyalty, reverence, humility, sincerity, purity, silence and innocence as well as youthfulness.
In our quotidian acts of reverence, we read these portraits with ineffable sadness, but every day we are exalted by them, joining in the community of a city that has discovered itself in a union of souls.
We shall see in a later chapter that science owes a remarkable and mysterious debt to mathematics, but the Greeks were to some extent impeded by their very reverence for its inexorable logic.
But I haste to the qualifications of this divine work, — fervency, reverence, and confidence; _fervency_ in crying, _reverence and confidence_ in crying, “Abba, Father;” for these two suit well toward our The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
That freedom and order are not incompatible ;that reverence is the maid of knowledge; that free discussion is the life of truth, and of true unity in a nation.
She spoke of them with profound reverence.
And Arjuna the accomplisher of inconceivable feats, having won Draupadi by his success in the amphitheatre, was saluted with reverence by all the Brahmanas. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
But when they live in reverence and docility toward these Five, then do these five things conduce to the maintenance, the clarity, the presence of the true doctrine.
Why should modern reverence of ancient deities force them to fossilize when they were clearly organic and changeable in the past?
Although Sarah had not been particularly religious, she had her own variety of reverence for a Celtic cross with a Latin inscription, "Ibit amor, ubit fides," meaning, Where there is love, there is faith. William
Soneday, for reverence of his holy day; and so the Jewe deyde in the preve. A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
A mixture of anger, anti-establishment irreverence and workers' solidarity is documented by the 145 banners collected by the City of Edinburgh.
That offer of reverence to the Saudis was a far cry from the way thousands of Americans were slaughtered, and contrary to our sovereign right to defend ourselves. Anthony Amore: Reverence for the Saudis?
Quite impressed with their reverence, she walked over to the cage and placed her birds in the cage with them.
Something debonnaire; which need not be separated from that awe and reverence, when they address a woman, which should shew the ardour of their passion, rather than the sheepishness of their nature; for who knows not that love delights in taming the lion-hearted? Clarissa Harlowe
All of this solemnity had the effect of devitalizing Potter's work, prematurely shrouding it with all the cobwebs of respectability and reverence.
The nicest tit-bits of the choicest dishes -- the middle slices of the fish, the breast of the young ducks, and the wings of the chickens, the mealiest potatoes, the juiciest tomatoes, the tenderest roasting ear, the most delicate custard, and freshest fruit always for his reverence! Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand'
Arise, I pray you rise," Shakespeare himself says in "Pericles," "we do not look for reverence but for love. The Stratford Experience
In the 1988 British Collins Pocket Reference English Dictionary, the word "awesome" has a single definition: "dread mingled with reverence". Dr. Cheryl Pappas: Ixnay Communique: If Everything's So Awesome, Where Is The Love?
He became "a creature of God" and was surrounded with something of the care and reverence with which the principal "softie" in the village was regarded. The Captives
She speaks of God or the gods with a delightful irreverence that never approaches blasphemy.
Therefore it is no wonder if these things which are spoken by our Saviour are not found verbatim in the Jewish pandect; for they are not so much alleged by him to shew that it was their direct design to banish away all reverence and love towards parents, as to show how wicked their traditions were, and into what ungodly consequences they oftentimes fell. From the Talmud and Hebraica
I mean that the father grows accustomed to descend to the level of his sons and to fear them, and the son is on a level with his father, he having no respect or reverence for either of his parents; and this is his freedom; and the metic is equal with the citizen, and the citizen with the metic, and the stranger is quite as good as either. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
But in contributing new verses and combing through the various contributions which have been made over the years by other writers, it turns out to have a real Native American feel to it, just the gentleness of it, and the reverence for, not America as nation-state "USA!" but more as "mother country," you know, just the idea of loving America. Mike Ragogna: Better Late Than Never: A Conversation With Buffy Sainte-Marie
The press pumps up many, but few receive such widespread public reverence.
Sir Piercie Shafton's colour began to rise -- "I marvel," he said, "to hear your reverence talk thus -- What! will you, for the imagined death of a rude, low-born frampler and wrangler, venture to impinge upon the liberty of the kinsman of the house of Piercie? The Monastery

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