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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

She would sometimes accept an invitation to stay and take tea with them, all esteeming it a delight to entertain her—she was so kind-hearted and showed such an interest in them and their affairs.

From Mildred's New Daughter by Finley, Martha

But we are always learning the old things and esteeming them new.

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

They who prize virtue never esteem the unworthy; and it is not possible to know thy excellent heart and manly nature, without esteeming thee.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore