reverence
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Maybe there’s something in our work that shows a reverence for the culture that maybe you don’t see in everyday media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
“I think goodbyes are treated with reverence that they shouldn’t be,” she says before revealing a bittersweet story about a lost family member.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
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
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz wrote that Mr. Altman is “often described, either with reverence or with suspicion, as the greatest pitchman of his generation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Nuwa’s tear,” he said with reverence, “or a Luminous Stone That Lights the Night.”
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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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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Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has revered its precedents as it reverences its Rembrandts.
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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"And may I ask," said the judge, "how much Cheong-Chau reverences the Five Sacred Books?"
From Held by Chinese Brigands by Herbert Strang
Nearly every man loves and reverences a woman; but this man loves and reverences women.
From Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham
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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An Ohio-born Greenwich Villager, Torrence loved life and reverenced it as deeply as many of his contemporaries seemed to fear or despise it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Shensi is reverenced as the birthplace of the Chinese nation, and when the country was first unified by the Ch'in dynasty in 221 B.C., its capital was near present-day Sian.
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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Yet how differently disposed—how devoted and affectionate—how, beyond measure, reverencing and adoring—the intelligence that governs me!
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
One of the reasons why one rather disbelieves in reverencing stupidity is that it is not always as honest as it looks.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
They reverently bore them—reverencing the beauty, and above all reverencing them as the work of One who had given him aid to think of their creation, and to embody them according to the pure conception.
From Papers from Overlook-House by Casper Almore
"After acquiring wealth in abundance, the twelve inner seats "Are to be thoroughly reverenced; what use of reverencing aught else below?
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya
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