What's the difference between referential and reverential?
Referential
Definition:
(a.) Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use.
Example Sentences:
(1) In another treatment, the same students were assigned single-level study guides that did not contain referential cues, with the guides implemented as an independent activity.
(2) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(3) The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the judgment.
(4) In this paper are proposed the normal referential values of MN-SSEP in children.
(5) The meeting, which was only open to the press for about 12 minutes, resembled most of Trump’s interactions with the black community to date: self-referential and placing style ahead of substance, to the chagrin of civil rights advocates.
(6) The need for an immunophenotypical referential framework relative to lymphoid follicle has led us to apply a panel of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, by means of a sensitive immunostaining method.
(7) At the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory (AFHRL), our researchers are building computer environments that know what they know, know how people can best use them, and know how to draw inferences about their state--self-referential electronic tutors.
(8) The role of these two mechanisms in mediating other referential access phenomena is also discussed.
(9) The relation between sensorimotor attainments and linguistic development in children using referential speech at the single- and two-word utterance levels was examined.
(10) Performance on the referential tasks was used to derive measures of communication success, learning, and efficiency.
(11) Both groups of deaf children performed at near perfect levels on the picture recognition task, suggesting that performance differences were attributable to differential message formulation skill as opposed to differential visual processing of the referential array.
(12) Those against simplified texts argue that the problem of figurative language control is not one of linguistic complexity, but one of cognitive processing: deaf children can grasp inferred or indirect meaning so long as the referential domain is made clear.
(13) Thus, concepts introduced with the indefinite this were more accessible; therefore, the indefinite this appears to operate cataphorically to improve referential access.
(14) The importance of comparison and message-formulation skills in referential communication was studied with severely mentally retarded children.
(15) The results presented as well as the referential ones suggest the better response to therapy and longer survival of patients with planocellular bronchial carcinoma in whom higher therapeutical irradiation dose was applied (60 Gy).
(16) Polarity of the referential component C was inverted between STh-Th and DTh and between OFH and STR while that of referential components D and E remained unchanged along all subcortical structures.
(17) The standing posture of 17 young men and women were studied using Barycentremeter measurements and full spine radiograph with a single referential system.
(18) For all subjects, however, the load effect on other-referential judgment latencies was smaller for nondepressed-content adjectives than for depressed-content adjectives.
(19) The present studies investigated the anaphoric inferences that occur during comprehension of figurative referential descriptions.
(20) But this book also has two more distinctly self-referential (and fourth-wall breaking) connections.
Reverential
Definition:
(a.) Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Film-makers appear increasingly willing to use very recent events and are perhaps less reverential than past directors.
(2) When, exactly, did the work "dark" become a reverential compliment, as opposed to merely a neutral description?
(3) Recent television versions, Gatiss fears, have been too reverential and too slow.
(4) He talked about it in very reverential terms, like these were sacred documents.
(5) I'm afraid I didn't enjoy either Django Unchained or Inglourious Basterds – they were too self-reverential for my taste – but, as a writer, nobody in the world has a better ear for the foibles and vulnerabilities of his bad guys than Tarantino.
(6) We know how profoundly significant and sensitive this matter is to victims’ families, especially those whose loved ones have yet to be identified,” the museum’s management says in a section about the repository on its website, adding that the medical examiner’s office believes “this new repository will provide a dignified and reverential setting for the remains to repose – temporarily or in perpetuity – as identifications continue to be made.” The city officials said that they consulted with some victims’ relatives before going ahead with the plan.
(7) Forgive the return to a familiar furrow, but why is it that on the relatively rare occasions these titans concede to interviews, they barely seem to be interrogated, and are spoken to instead in the reverential and admiring tones normally reserved for inventors or eccentric scientists?
(8) If Mullah Saheb is dead, there will be 1,000 other Mullah Sahebs,” he said, using a reverential term for the cleric.
(9) Louis, though, is something of a special case among comedians at the moment, spoken about in hushed, reverential terms by other comics: Patton Oswalt has likened the experience of watching him do stand-up to seeing Richard Pryor at his peak, while longtime friend and collaborator Chris Rock, one of the many famous faces who appear in Louie, describes CK as "some kid I used to beat up" who has suddenly become "Jimi Hendrix" .
(10) We might start treating our knackered old Nissans more like those classic cars that hobbyists spend long nights reverentially restoring in order to drive them very slowly, while wearing special gloves, to country pubs at weekends.
(11) The role has defeated actors as varied as Danny Glover (in the 1987 TV film Mandela), Sidney Poitier (Mandela and de Klerk, 1997, also for TV) and Dennis Haysbert (Goodbye Bafana, 2007), in vehicles that were reverential and mostly forgettable.
(12) That’s great for selling me a product like Apartments.com or any number of self-reverential cameos in movies and TV shows, but can you ever take the man seriously in an actual movie that requires him to play a real character?
(13) David was mainly interested in political influence, and despised the commercialism of Kemsley, whose Sunday Times was conservative and printed reverential editorials about the royal family in italics.
(14) The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw labelled it a "reverential and sentimental biopic … laced with bizarre cardboard dialogue – a tabloid fantasy of how famous and important people speak in private".
(15) They speak in reverential tones of his Easterhouse epiphany : the moment in 2002 when he saw the poverty on a Glasgow estate, brushed a manly tear from his eye and vowed to end the "dependency culture" that kept the poor jobless.
(16) Australians would be foolish to lapse into alliance sentimentality, invoking Anzus mantras with, what Paul Keating has called, a “reverential and sacramental” tone.
(17) At this stage in Corbyn’s journey, endless references to The Mandate are beginning to sound creepily reverential.
(18) It would be sad to see this titan felled by Florentino Pérez at some point in the future but perhaps he is held in such high regard by the club that his reverential status will remain intact whatever happens to the team under his watch.
(19) Reverential tour guides escort small groups past Count Tolstoy's duck pond and up an avenue of high trees.
(20) That was felt to be too dry and reverential in contrast to ITV.