How To Use Reverent In A Sentence

The silver flask touched her lips as reverently as the Christian chalice of gold.
Her emotion expressed itself in her earnest performance of her reverent daily devotions. Emily Fox-Seton
Remember, if you will (I certainly do), that one of the selling points of the post-VII "reforms" was that they enriched Catholic life and worship by making them relevant and immediate rather than old-fashioned (for which read "dignified") and outdatedly stiff (for which read "reverent"). You report: Promotional Posters for the Traditional Latin Mass
But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair. South Wind
But there was the usual reverent silence, broken by the occasional embarrassed cough or ripple of restrained applause.

Jeanie courtesied reverently and withdrew, attended by the The Heart of Mid-Lothian
The first smash hit of the 2007-2008 Broadway season turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in Broadway history â€ â€œXanadu.â€ People are calling a hilariously reinvented send-up of the 1980â€™s Olivia Newton-John film, this irreverent musical adventure, about following your dreams when others say you shouldnâ€™t, spins along to the addictive original hit film score by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. Whoopi Roller Skates ‘Xanadu’
Eugenia too, soothed with the delusions of her romantic but innocent fancy, flattered herself she might now see continually the object she conceived formed for meriting her ever reverential regard; and Miss Margland was importantly occupied upon affairs best suited to her taste and ancient habits, in deliberating how first to bring forth her fair charge with the most brilliant effect. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
The title track, which opens the album, slowly introduces the multiple elements of this work, reverently contrasting them to establish a perfect balance of impressions.
The French press, which has traditionally been reverential and unchallenging of its political and cultural elites, decided that his previous use of her to promote his political career meant that the situation was fair game.
It's showbizzy, ingenious, affectionate but irreverent. Times, Sunday Times
The name sustained an irreverent homage to the monarchy, armored with irony after his flight from fascist Europe. Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing
Communion in the hand kept to a minimum, 2 Deacons alongside the Celebrant, no concelebration, birettas, supremely reverent atmosphere, and beautiful vestments and even more beautiful music exclusively polyphonic/chant. "Liturgical paradigms for the whole world..."
It is a day of reverent pilgrimage with the celebrant of the Mass bringing the Blessed Sacrament to the island in a special currach. More Boats
Miss Burney protested indignantly, her long thin nose turning pink with mortification at this irreverent piece of mimicry
It's great theatre: it's irreverent, rude to the establishment and is prepared to take chances.
Poe was the juiciest rhymer of the nineteenth century—before Swinburne, that is—but Mallarmé in his wisdom translated Poe into exquisitely rhymeless French prose, and then Mallarmé published his reverent prose translations in a book, with line drawings by Manet. THE ANTHOLOGIST
The irreverent cook can, of course, substitute the tandoor with an electric oven, and the oven with a covered saucepan, and so on.
he gazed reverently at the handiwork
The most interesting thing, if you ask me, is how "the irreverent, oppositional ethic that controlled pirate identity" winds up as the theme of family rides at these parks.
A reverent silence fell over the crowd.
The Scout Law declares a Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
Gaugin: The painter who invented his own brand of artistic licence life and work for which he can be reverentially remembered: his extensive travels, his experimentalism and his "primitivist" painting style honed in Tahiti - a bold reaction against the Impressionism embraced by most of his WN.com - Articles related to Keira Knightley takes on performance art
But the irreverent Honeymouth, trying to maintain his poise, prodded me, saying, Come on, Superego. Dreamseller: The Calling
Again, like today's, its doings were chronicled by an irreverent, iconoclastic press eager for celebrity gossip and social scandal.
There is a note of criticism for this 'unreverent' treatment of an anointed king. The Times Literary Supplement
Hatch meanwhile reverently doffed his salet and knelt down. The Black Arrow
a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner
In his past work, David Lynch has often presented seniors as if they were circus freaks, but here his approach is reverent and respectful.
The new arrival with an irreverent approach to the stuffy conventions and personnel of Parliament made an immediate impression.
He explained that he was in fact on indefinite exile from the Parish for committing the unforgivable and irredeemable sins of garrulity, irreverent laughter, vile thoughts and oversleeping.
At this time of year, I hope it isn't irreverent to quote the Bible and say - I have kept all these things and pondered them in my heart!
Parquet flooring, white leather sofas, Picassos on the wall and gold everywhere; the room was reverential, a monument to tastelessness. THE RHYTHM SECTION
Then, what can only be described as a sea of flowers, was laid all around, each floral tribute reverently placed by a member of the Civil Defence.
Effigies of their parents, Richard and Magdalen, are sheltered in a magnificent canopied tomb in the south transept, eight prayerful and reverent children gathered behind them.
His vision of America and of life was tough, irreverent, astringent almost to the point of misanthropy.
Taylor combined great knowledge with an irreverent attitude to history.
Tadhg extended his thick, rough hands in front of him, his expression reverent. My Devilish Scotsman
He opened the ancient book with reverential care.
He's too original to be a mere imitator, too irreverent for a disciple.
I lost count of the number of times this band was earnestly recommended to me, in reverential tones.
Up the long hill to East Grinstead, keeping a steady, reverent twenty-five miles an hour, the traffic building up behind. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
The Bible once received, science can furnish abundant illustrations of the attributes of the Being therein revealed; but even with all the illumination which has been the immediate or secondary result of Christianity, man is hopeless without its authority, and I would not give the slightest shadow of support to that irreverent presumption which, guided by what it calls the unaided light of nature, would construct a system of religion out of passions, intuitions, and I know not what absurdity. Religion and Chemistry
Most conversations that established coherence amid the onsetting din of mass-slurring hung reverently on these figures. Alibi Weblog
George Condo: A Collection of Etchings | Condo is typically known for bold paintings so brash as to be referred to as gonzo "artificial realism," the term the artist uses to describe his works, which by turns are meditative, wry, irreverent and fantastical, reflecting Condo's now-iconic surrealistic mash-up of old and modern masters. Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19)
The band of funsters never appear on stage without their shell suits, signature chains of cheap gold safety pins and famously irreverent sense of humour.
The festive season of Christmas was observed in the usual reverent and enjoyable manner by the community in Bunclody.
But then, also, it was with a certain reverent curiousness that she approached the cabin, while the Hush on her cheek showed a yet riper mellowness. THE GREAT INTERROGATION
Generations later, the stories are still as rude, irreverent and colourful as they were way back then.
Rarely shown and unavailable on video, independent cinema aficionados speak of it reverently.
Its setting, the courtroom, is a significative and instantly recognizable space, and it relies on a set of props that have been hallowed by centuries of reverential use.
She placed it at his feet and said in a low reverential whisper: "Please accept my offering.
the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence
Hart paused and his great head sank toward his chest, in reverent memory. PAINT THE WIND
Abigail had a reputation for being a wild, irreverent and disrespectful young girl.
If anything she's too reverential and deferential.
As would be expected, irreverent ideas were constantly floated.
Joan Brown's irreverent explorations of the conflicted roles associated with femininity make her seem as well a kind of godmother to contemporary Bad Girl artists such as Karen Kilimnik and Nicole Eisenman.
She employed an irreverent humor to salt her observation.
Jests against religion, sneers at the piety of the godly, irreverent and shocking swearing, and a boastful parade of the immoralities they have committed make up the conversation, I fear, of some circles.
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I wondered how late she'd be, and if, when she arrived, we'd converse in hushed, reverent tones. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
Back then, I was into Bukowski the iconoclast, the rebel with that irreverent humour.
And as for going as cook, — though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board — yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; — though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will. Moby Dick; or the Whale
irreverent scholars mocking sacred things
Statues of unknown saints looked gravely down from their alcoves as Jacques and Marie-Christine knelt reverently before the altar.
It is reverently displayed and enraptures the museum's Russian visitors.
And thus, kneeling upon the flower-sprent turf hand in hand and with heads reverently bowed, they were wed, while the six outlaws stared in silent awe and the meek ass cropped the grass busily. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
He grinned back and gave me a mock-salute, much less reverent than the black-suited major-domo inside, who bid me good morning with gravity. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
His hands folded reverently, he appeared calm and prayerful, despite the repeated flick of his eyes towards the back of the church.
Do people not see Jackson's teasing yet reverential allusion to the reknowned 15th-century "Salting Madonna" by Robert Campin, the Master of Flemalle? posted by Eric 4: 07 PM | IsThatLegal?
This was nothing to do with the scrabbling desperation of a starving people, but a highly ordered, solemn and even reverent religious ritual.
The Colorado Springs Independent is a breath of fresh, irreverent Rocky Mountain air.
And he was not far wrong; the times and manners which he admired were pretty nearly gone -- the gay young men 'larked' him irreverently, while the serious youth had a grave pity and wonder at him, which would have been even more painful to bear, had the old gentleman been aware of its extent. The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
I never fancied broiling fowls; -- though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will. Moby Dick, or, the whale
The new arrival with an irreverent approach to the stuffy conventions and personnel of Parliament made an immediate impression.
Madoc succeeds in interrupting the "irreverent work" of their "polluted hands" and, turning the situation to advantage, forces the Catholic ministers to repackage The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism
What remains after completion of the ritual is at once swept up and reverently dispersed.
larked" him irreverently, whilst the serious youth had a grave pity and wonder at him; which would have been even more painful to bear, had the old gentleman been aware of its extent. The History of Pendennis
Terminal illness makes a fantastic, fun-filled irreverent backdrop for black comedy, exploding with comments on humankind's barbarian invasion of the planet.
People have been duped for long enough by a pompous officialdom and an over reverent Press full of its own conceit and self-importance.
Ad placitum, are the characters real before mentioned, and words: although some have been willing by curious inquiry, or rather by apt feigning, to have derived imposition of names from reason and intendment; a speculation elegant, and, by reason it searcheth into antiquity, reverent, but sparingly mixed with truth, and of small fruit. The Advancement of Learning
This is the perfect opportunity for those of you who are afraid to be political, silly, irreverent, serious, mouthy, or sexy on your own website.
Nay I myself, am I the worse for being of a feeble order of intelligence; what the irreverent speculative, world calls barren, red-tapish, limited, and even intrinsically dark and small, and if it must be said, stupid? Latter-Day Pamphlets
It is of course a pleasant paradox that these texts, now diligently kept from unscholarly eyes in the reverent hush of university libraries, were once the subject of scribblings, doodles, litanies of the mundane.
Each of the traditional mysteries of joy, sorrow and glory are introduced with readings from the writings of Cardinal Newman and Father Werenfried, while the organ music and plainsong interludes, reverentially sung by the Oxford Oratory Schola, reflect the appropriate moods of the mysteries and give a musical uplift to the prayer. The Holy Rosary with the Schola of the Oxford Oratory and Meditations by J.H. Newman
That's the old foresters" garden,' she said in reverential tones.
He stood in reverential awe of himself; he had performed a miraculous feat. Chapter 4
Irreverent commentary is as much a characteristic trait of Duke as his razor edged flattop, and he hasn't lost any of his will to communicate his intent.
A fact-based film that succeeds in being both artful and reverent is a rare thing. History
Suddenly the solemnity of the occasion and the majesty of its setting overcame everyone and reverential silence descended.
Or, that oaths made in reverential fear Of love, and his wrath, any may forswear ? THE CALLIGRAPHER
That's one of the mirthful questions answered in this light-hearted, irreverent and yet strangely affecting account of Christ's entire life, not just the three years or so we get in the Bible.
Begun as a soft, reverent chant, it was now a triumphal march, a celebratory paean accompanied by a tim - pani of sword clashing against shield, of stomping feet and clap - ping hands. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
Everything was done with the ancestors and the seventh generation yet to come in mind, a reverent model of accountability.
Boyd gazed at the material a moment, his expression reverent. The Will
The women, generally married at fifteen, were old at thirty, and such was the intensity of life in this "water-logged town" -- as F. Hopkinson Smith somewhat irreverently called it upon one occasion -- that a traveller was led to remark: _On ne goûte pas ses plaisirs, on les avale. Women of the Romance Countries
Postmodern reinvention, including Rambo as Egypt's Pharaoh, could be seen as irreverent, even sacrilegious.
Perhaps it was the violin's formidable heritage, or the choice of repertoire, which accounts for the politely reverential tone of much of the recording.
Cowardice is called meekness; to temporize is to be charitable and reverent; to speak truth, and shame the devil, is to offend weak brethren, who, somehow or other, never complain of their weak consciences till you hit them hard. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
This is not poetry, but it phrases a wish in a child's own way, to be melodized and fixed in a child's reverent and sensitive memory. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
A typeface named Bastard is typical of his often irreverent attitude to the industry of advertising and design.
Damn, I was simply trying to strike the appropriate, reverential tone for this great institution.
Her day has been celebrated most reverently every year, and the day of her translation has been particularly blessed.
When I turned around again the young lady had somehow osmosed out of her clothes, which were right there on the car seat looking like she had simply passed through the cloth, and there she was in all her glory, and I mean that most seriously and reverently, believe me! OpEdNews - Diary: On Women, Love, Sex and Art
His father, the reverent Pa’son St. Cleeve, made a terrible bruckle hit in ‘s marrying, in the sight of the high. Two on a Tower
You are also unconventional, irreverent, and unimpressed by authority and rules.
Now after the accident, when it became apparent that he had changed, he's described as having become profane, irreverent, not showing much deference for his fellows.
Everyone was treated by Sr. Monica as another Christ and dealt with in a reverent, respectful way.
It is more difficult to believe that two irreverent jokers who set out to write nonsense verses could have been inspired by the gods without knowing it.
Kneeling down he reverently happed him in afresh, then rising with a heart contented, whistled triumphant as a pibroch, and took the airt of Border Ghost Stories
Mentioning our site shows remarkable taste and intelligence, as well as an irreverent sense of fun.
There are even a few secular historians who believe that Jesus' body was eaten by dogs, and that his acolytes fabricated the story of a reverential entombment as a sort of coping mechanism.
The atmosphere was reverential, rather than tense.
[6807] Erasmus of such controversies: Pugnet qui volet, ego censeo leges majorum reverenter suscipiendas, et religiose observandas, velut a Deo profectas; nec esse tutum, nec esse pium, de potestate publica sinistram concipere aut serere suspicionem. Anatomy of Melancholy
The stillness and quiet of the night made the place seem almost reverent, as if something long ago had happened here.
The movie takes an irreverent look at the city.
He paused, watching the rainbows of refracted light from it sparkle on the shelves and walls, an expression of almost reverent awe on his face.
Already the novelty of their presence was wearing off and the designers, irreverent by nature, were reverting to type. DEATH IN FASHION
It was low-pitched and reverentially modulated, a nice, crisp, modest baritone.
It was latish afternoon, and the tarts were beginning to parade; little Willy goggled at a couple of painted princesses swaying by in all their finery, ogling, and then he says to me in a reverent whisper: The Sky Writer
This Bach is not as reverently worshiped, it is adored with coyness, sparkle, and a twinkling eye.
His grave in Amiens cemetery is reverently maintained and restaurants all over the city offer ‘Jules Verne menus’! Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The price of fame
OGXers had a front-row seat for a Reagan Revolution, during that they saw "liberal" turn a irreverent term, as most Americans recoiled from a assorted ransom movements (sexual, feminist, gay, ethnic) of a Sixties as well as Seventies. The Original Generation X, 1954-63 by Joshua Glenn
He'd pull the shirt out of the bag reverently and comment on its features.
He was not angry now, but spoke gently and watched her reaction to what he said with reverent patience. DANSVILLE
They looked, in fact, if it be not irreverent to say it, rather like so many bundles of pneumatical rags than respectable domestic ghosts. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
Sorrow closes the lot of such aweless, unbridled madness: stability is for the calmly reverent life, knitting whole houses in sweet domestic harmony. Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy
“‘With sandals beaten from the crowns of kings,’” Leo added, murmuring the words reverently, loving them with his lips as his lips formed them and uttered them. CHAPTER XXIX
[6807] Erasmus of such controversies: Pugnet qui volet, ego censeo leges majorum reverenter suscipiendas, et religiose observandas, velut a Deo profectas; nec esse tutum, nec esse pium, de potestate publica sinistram concipere aut serere suspicionem. Anatomy of Melancholy
Imagine my surprise when they spontaneously sang with me again, but this time in hushed and reverent tones.
For twenty years he was a star performer at the Cambridge history podium - theatrical, witty, irreverent, iconoclastic.
The two churches of Vaccarizza, dark and unclean structures, stand side by side, and I was shown through them by their respective priests, Greek and Catholic, who walked arm in arm in friendly wise, and meekly smiled at a running fire of sarcastic observations on the part of another citizen directed against the "bottega" in general -- the _shop, _ as the church is sometimes irreverently called. Old Calabria
What on the surface is a short film that embraces a post-feminist viewpoint in its celebration of female sexuality is actually more concerned with its irreverent underbelly.
In the three months since the election, Clinton and Republican leaders have repeatedly and even reverently recited the appropriate rhetoric.
Wars grow to look the same, demonstrations are cut from a loop of video, and natural disasters have their stock shots, their reverential tone and their lexicon of clichés.
I'm certain they had a Chess channel, where epochal matches of the past were recreated in hushed reverential tones.
Archbishop of Canterbury, is transformed, as if by irreverent enchantment of the dissenting interest, into A Favourite Terrier, or Cattle Grazing; and the most extraordinary work of art in the list described by the Bleater, is coolly sponged out altogether, and asserted never to have had existence at all, even in the most shadow thoughts of its executant! Contributions to All the Year Round
And, as with Thomas Nozkowski's deft, eccentric revivifications of modernist composition, Root's paintings are, in regard to their progenitors, simultaneously affectionate and irreverent.
Taylor combined great knowledge with an irreverent attitude to history.
There, most voices conjoin in reverential awe.
Some have been irreverent, some subversive and some confrontational.
Good for Radio 4 doing a second series after all the stuffed shirts complained about their first one because of their irreverent and unstuffy presentation.
But the need to break clear from the suffocation of reverent togetherness is not just a matter of philosophical self-respect.
Meanwhile, railing judgments, though spoken with truth, against dignities, as being uttered irreverently, are of the nature of "blasphemies" (Greek, 1Co 4: 4, 5). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
St. Bonaventure remarks, that this animal, by the respect it manifested during the celebration of the Sacred Mysteries, taught the Christians the deep reverence with which they ought to assist at Mass, and at the same time passed a deserved censure on those who are irreverent or indevout during its celebration. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Hicks offers a reverential homage to nature, while a slightly pompous drama slowly unfolds.
Never before have I been listened to with such attention and understanding," Messiaen later said, recalling the reverential reaction of the mixed audience of farmers and intellectuals, factory workers and priests. A POW's Awe-Inspiring Act of Faith
His appearance on horse-back is a kind of theophany, cowboys doing him homage with a reverential gesture: Monstre Désacré
Still to the left of this, uprose the Palatine, the earliest settled of the hills of Rome, with the old walls of Romulus, and the low straw-built shed, wherein that mighty son of Mars dwelt when he governed his wild robber-clan; and the bidental marking the spot where lightning from the monarch of Olympus, called on by undue rites, consumed Hostilius and his house; were still preserved with reverential worship, and on its eastern peak, the time-honoured shrine of Stator Jove. The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)
I use this name for want of a better, and I mean the quality in the light of which the artist sees deep into his subject, undergoes it, absorbs it, discovers in it new things that were not on the surface, becomes patient with it, and almost reverent, and, in short, enlarges and humanizes the technical problem. Picture and Text 1893
At all times reverent to more than twenty years of Mario platforming, NSMB Wii never feels tired, repetitive or stodgy, which is something of an achievement unto itself. Home Theater Forum
She employed an irreverent humor to salt her observation.
Oh, the rapture mingled with reverential, holy fear -- for it is a rapturous, yet divinely fearful thing -- to be indwelt by the Holy When the Holy Ghost is Come
The Los Angeles Times said some in the crowd threw bottles at police while others mocked and taunted them, dancing on squad cars or lying flat across the ground in what is known as "planking," a pretty much inexplicable Internet meme that is at once irreverent and potentially dangerous. NYT > Home Page
The Shakers were a reverent group who thought long and hard about their place in the universe. Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman faked it.
She employed an irreverent humor to salt her observation.
The March issue of the longtime fashion arbiter gives us radiant Michelle Obama on the cover (a shot by power chronicler Annie Leibovitz as the family slummed at the Hay-Adams Hotel before moving across the street) and a reverent tale, "Leading Lady," by Andre Leon Talley. James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Michelle, Carla and Silda: Hero, Badass and the Humiliated
God is about to argue the case; therefore let the nations listen in reverential silence. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Sir Bob did talk the talk, however, and still no rock star talks with more humanity, irreverent humour, passion and compassion.
The Wanderers of other sects hereupon reverently saluted the Lord from afar, and went off on their way.
While Gandhi wrote to Leo Tolstoy in the most reverential terms, the Count addressed him as ‘Dear Friend.’
Nigel and Fergal look on with a variety of pained and reverential expressions - at one point actually sitting in pews while a survivor reads to the congregation from the Bible.
Tribunal in more than one part of his German dominions; and that, in consequence, instead of submitting to their doom with reverent resignation, children of the cord have been found bold enough to resist the executioners of the Vehme, striking, wounding, and even slaying those who have received commission to put them to death. Anne of Geierstein
With his irreverent sense of humor and a PC that could handle the games, he fit right in.
But then he talks about the Eucharist and transubstantiation and sounds very serious and almost reverential.
The old didapper," began Bildad, somewhat irreverently, "infested this here house about twenty year. Heart of the West [Annotated]
His first couture collection for the label was not well received, with the designer himself playing up to his irreverent image by describing the collection to Vogue in October 1997 as "crap". The Guardian World News
Our prayer is that this will bring back many ofthe clergy and lay faithful who have gravitated to schismatic groups in reaction to serious abuses committed bysome priests who have irreverently celebrated the new Mass in English since the Vatican II. Archive 2007-08-01
` Aladdin 's Cave," he murmured reverentially, blessing Barney's forethought. STAGE FRIGHT
Well call me cynical, but I think that when she talks about the incident to her friends, it will not be in reverent tones.
OGXers had a front-row chair for a Reagan Revolution, during which they saw "liberal" become a irreverent term, as many Americans recoiled from a various ransom movements (sexual, feminist, gay, ethnic) of a Sixties as well as Seventies. Archive 2009-11-01
These broken instruments of fertility were afterwards reverently wrapt up and buried in the earth or in subterranean chambers sacred to Cybele, where, like the offering of blood, they may have been deemed instrumental in recalling Attis to life and hastening the general resurrection of nature, which was then bursting into leaf and blossom in the vernal sunshine. Chapter 34. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
Out of respect for the lost leader, talk of a succession contest has been muted but, despite the reverential treatment, there is no rule in politics that states that the meek shall inherit the earth.
The kids have taken a somewhat reverent tone when talking about Pete.
This seems to me a mistake, as Balthus shared nothing of the Surrealists' irreverent, even sacrilegious tendencies.
Be reverent before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute.
Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Carine Roitfeld's new book The former French Vogue editor's new book, "Irreverent" Rizzoli, is a visual history of her career, including greatest hits from her controversial shoots photographed by the likes of Mario Testino and Helmut Newton; family snap shots; and hand-written notes from designer pals Tom Ford and Azzedine Alaïa. Fabulous Fall Essentials
O Thebes, nurse of Semele! crown thyself with ivy; burst forth, burst forth with blossoms fair of green convolvulus, and with the boughs of oak and pine join in the Bacchic revelry; dor; - thy coat of dappled fawn-skin, decking it with tufts of silvered hair; with reverent hand the sportive wand now wield. The Bacchantes
After a hectic day of bickering and money-making, the gang reverently enters an elaborate boardroom where Trump presides.
Britt and company remain reverent to the source material, resulting in tasteful interpretations that stand on their own or as a companion to the original work.
She stood up and returned the picks to their sack; then carefully - almost reverently - replaced the koto on the shelf.
They are intended to stimulate reverent inquiry, not to gratify idle speculative curiosity; and when the event shall have been fulfilled, they will show the divine wisdom of God, who ordered all things in minutely harmonious relations, and left neither the times nor the ways haphazard. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Fans still talk about it in near reverential tones.
The Table is a place of feasting and refreshment, but also a place of mystery tinged with reverent fear.
They should be able to make the kind of radical, irreverent cinema that Anderson himself created in a biting, bilious state of the nation diatribe such as Britannia Hospital.
Unflaggingly inventive and irreverent, too. Times, Sunday Times
What on the surface is a short film that embraces a post-feminist viewpoint in its celebration of female sexuality is actually more concerned with its irreverent underbelly.
Taylor combined great knowledge with an irreverent attitude to history.
Or, that oaths made in reverential fear Of love, and his wrath, any may forswear ? THE CALLIGRAPHER
Mass, and at the same time passed a deserved censure on those who are irreverent or indevout during its celebration. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
For the Renaissance: a reverential longing to recapture classical antiquity.
Senini has captured the light and the reverent stillness and silence of the art gallery/church that functions as a shrine to the unknown.
This was the Prince whom, we may remember, Sidonia had whipped with her irreverent hands upon his princely _podex, _ when he was a little boy. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1
Let us now very reverently examine ourselves as we partake of the bread and wine.
When we went visiting I played, as best I could, reverential, supportive son to her should-be proud mother. ICED
Mowl is unusual for writing many books which are not offered as the last word on their subjects but as irreverent, amusing squibs, serving an intellectually stimulating role because they take nothing for granted.
They have a special feeling to them, not the least of which is provided by the house itself which is grand and reverential and thick with age like its great works of art.
It also has the reverential, quasi-mystical approach to artistic creation which always seems to go down well with critics.
The education service is attempting to foster a more reverential spirit in the Assembly. SAMSON SUPERSLUG

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