irreverence
Example Sentences
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Irreverence is also something where it’s not in my wheelhouse, some comics are really good at it, and that is their thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024
Irreverence can be a form of homage, and the thirty-four-year-old Feiffer gets cheeky with Chekhov’s delicate realism, sending up his habits of exposition and repetition, along with his play’s central conceit.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019
Irreverence is a fundamental element of carnival, as are costumes mocking politicians or political scandals.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2018
Irreverence may get people talking about Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep again.
From BusinessWeek • Mar. 4, 2010
"Irreverence ill becomes a beneficed clergyman, Mr. Bevis," said Mrs. Ramshorn—who very consistently regarded any practical reference to our Lord as irrelevant, thence naturally as irreverent.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George
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