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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

“Trial of all who judged best In esteeming the love of a man.”

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

May happiness wing to thy bosom, unsought, And Nigel, esteeming his bliss as he ought, Prove worthy thy worship,—confound him!

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane

So, too, he praised without esteeming, and blackened without hating.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul