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What nudged Americans from esteeming fastidious high-culture figures like Muck to idolizing personally crude pop-culture stars like Ruth?

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

The Russians, esteeming ceremony as a proud proletarian power should, outdid themselves in welcome.

From Time Magazine Archive

There must be ample ground for esteeming him guilty before this extraordinary power vested in the judge could be exercised.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

All this, they suffer from a principle of love towards God; esteeming themselves the worst of all men, though they are most precious in the sight of God.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

A controversy was maintained for some time, with the result that the crown, lightly esteeming the value of the find, permitted private exploitation of the mines on a basis of ten per cent royalty.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher