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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

He was humiliated by this witness whom he could not deceive, and whom he could not help esteeming.

From The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s by Bazin, Ren?

The Princes stoode still in great admiration, and highly commended the wisedome of the Lady, esteeming hir for a very sage and polliticke woman.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

Common sense solves this question by esteeming in the highest degree those who use speech only to express their thought, and despising those who use it to deceive.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul