esteem

Mainstream culture’s relatively lower esteem for the Green Lantern is absolutely related to cartoonish interpretations of his power in live-action depictions.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

It’s been a beacon of democracy since its founding, and countries all over the world have held it in such high esteem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Most countries hold us in remarkably lower esteem today than they did a year ago.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026

Robert Coover’s “The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.” has grown in esteem since the novel was first published in 1968.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

I had hoped that by serving him the rest of the week I could win back his esteem.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Freaks are scroungers, thrifters, salvagers; they’re unmatched in their ability to repurpose the discarded, to find value in things — and in people — that it sometimes seems nobody else wants or esteems.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

“I know that he esteems her a lot, like all the Jesuits of Argentina and Uruguay, because they consider her their spiritual mother,” Correale told The Associated Press in the runup to the ceremony.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

PEN esteems not only exquisite literature, but also the right of all people to express themselves.

From Slate ● May 6, 2015

Then the vulgar greeting, the tipsy grasp, the friend in the market-place:-- The man who hails you Tom or Jack And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit!

From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

In a country that esteemed practicality, fiction was enlisted to speak directly to a cause.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Immigrants lived near the mission, and esteemed Spanish Mexican families lived in large mansions around the churches that dot Old Town in the mid-19th century — many came post-Spanish-Mexican wars.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

The 36-year-old, who co-ran the esteemed Fulgurances restaurant in Paris and New York before opening Gigi's this month, said his pricing falls in line with industry standards.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Two of our esteemed gubernatorial candidates, the cowboy and the dilettante, apparently could not find ties for the first debate Wednesday night, showing up with dress shirts casually unbuttoned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

That was until Will Thompson’s grandfather, who was a member of the school’s board of trustees as well as an esteemed donor, got wind of the article.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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

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

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair

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 J. Fenimore Cooper

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 Henry Charles Lea