reverence
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But it also elicited backlash from a camp who did not think the pair were displaying proper mastery of, or reverence for, flamenco history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Here, Moore shows reverence not only for her own craft, but for all the hopeful idealists who pine to know what it feels like to lose yourself in someone, or something, else.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
“There was a kind of solemn reverence from everyone,” she said, “the guys who drove the trucks, the riggers, and the people from Port Authority. We felt it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Perhaps the doubters did not grasp the reverence in which the softly spoken yet inspirational woman from Bray is held.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
The priest lifted his hands toward the Sacred Rock in reverence.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has revered its precedents as it reverences its Rembrandts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It seemed to me that there pervaded on that island one of the deepest respects and reverences for the dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“My father praised Robert without respite! So my behavior was disgracious. But such reverences, such empathies that existed between them, they are very combustible. Friendship is a calmer thing. Robert left Zedelgem in winter.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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As this was said with a royal, as well as with a womanly dignity, no one presumed to demur, but, making the customary reverences, Columbus and our hero left the presence.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
These gloomy reveries grew deeper and darker as he wandered from place to place, and marked the stealthy glances and timid reverences of the peasants as they passed him.
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
But Pi is precociously enlightened, his innocence not a problem to be rectified but a quality to be reverenced.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
Most white Americans were of British descent, they drew their political principles from English history, and they reverenced the king as protector of his people and their liberties.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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And Douglas, the man engaged to marry Joan, reverenced Lynneth, white daughter of the moon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Leaving school two months after his sixteenth birthday in 1855, he soon became office-boy in a warehouse on a day since reverenced by the Rockefeller clan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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In a land reverencing charismatic leadership and far-reaching intellect, he looks like a messenger boy and disparages his own brain.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They are reverencing what they thoroughly understand; they have seen their monkhood from the inside; their reverence is the outcome of a very real knowledge.
From The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding
I do not yield to any one in honoring and reverencing the noble and patriotic men who were in the councils of the nation during the terrible struggle with the rebellion.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
Honor meant courage and courtesy, the reverencing of all women for the love of one.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
He had made a most ruinous muddle of his whole life through reverencing that fetich word.
From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford
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