(1) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
(2) Many have called for the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader revered by many Tibetans.
(3) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
(4) Compaoré was 36 when he seized power in a coup in which Thomas Sankara, his former friend and one of Africa’s most revered leaders, was ousted and assassinated.
(5) We intend to treat claims from the most powerful factions with skepticism, not reverence.
(6) King notes with some amusement that he has been around so long that kids who read and loved him in the 1970s now run publishing houses and newspapers; he is revered, these days, as a grand old man of American letters.
(7) Four explosions hit the southern Damascus district of Sayeda Zeinab, where a revered Shia shrine is located, leaving 62 dead and 180 injured, according to the Observatory.
(8) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.
(9) Where other titans became “Old Farts” overnight – “ No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1977” as the Clash had it – Bowie stayed revered.
(10) It is hard to explain the significance of the man to those who may not have been born at the time or informed of the freedom struggle, or born witness to his dignity, pride, humility and moral authority, but I and so many others revered him as a father and cherished his existence as a living secular saint.
(11) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(12) But many of the MEK's American supporters speak of the organisation almost with a reverence.
(13) Up to half a million wolves once roamed across America , living in harmony with native Americans who revered them for supposed healing powers.
(14) Others are alarmed at the almost cult-like reverence that has built up around Buhari.
(15) Qhorin Halfhand is revered for his ability to live deep into Wildling territory for years on end.
(16) He inspired that odd mixture of reverence and resentment that we now associate with celebrity, a phenomenon wrongly thought modern.
(17) Oscar Tabárez's side may not play with the same flair and commitment to attack, but Luis Suárez demonstrated here why he is so revered and the draw has been as inviting for La Celeste as they could possibly have dared hope.
(18) As for potatoes, we're supposed to treat them with a reverence previously reserved for fine wine and caviar.
(19) It sounds like Michael Gove's worst nightmare, a country where some combination of teachers' union leaders and trendy academics, "valuing Marxism, revering jargon and fighting excellence" (to use the education secretary's words), have taken over the asylum.
(20) It's one thing for critics and curators to single out the next rising star from China, expecting hushed reverence from the general public, but quite another for us to genuinely engage with the art of China past and present.
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.