venerable
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Even the venerable Dieter Ruehle posted a video of him playing the trumpet solo on the keyboard.
From Los Angeles Times
When he showed up at the Gold Mirror, a venerable Italian spot that reopened after a two-year remodeling, Lurie found himself mostly listening to the two brothers who own it.
Such trivial concerns were left to lesser schools, institutions that perhaps couldn’t appreciate the sanctity of a 10-week regular season, the purity of life without football scholarships, or the venerable tradition of Harvard-Yale.
But curiously, and perhaps ironically, his range of interests, though in fact reprising venerable leftwing sympathies, may also chime with the sort of conservatism that values settled skills and customs—a settled pace of life.
Increasingly curious, he made email inquiries, then plane reservations to check out the venerable family seat.
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