reverence

Example Sentences

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Krusek says what makes the show compelling “is the spirit of the videos, just the sense of joyousness and benevolence that they communicate, and a real sense of reverence for the art and the artists.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

I don’t share their reverence for the institution, nor does most of the public.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Her father was a politician, lawyer and judge, and from him she learned reverence for the law.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

But the Young 40 memes also represent Korean youth's growing scepticism of this almost forced reverence for elders.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

Francis Bacon complained in 1620 that the world had been bewitched, so inexplicable was the reverence for antiquity.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton