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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

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

Her grandmother's mode of esteeming mankind was certainly extraordinary.

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip

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