reverence

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This reverence for Kahlo continued with “Neo-Mexicanisms,” when artists of the ’80s and ’90s, including LGBTQ+ and anti-globalism protesters, deployed Mexican imagery and Kahlo-style portraits in their art.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

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

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

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

Yet Sparta, as a warrior culture, valued the young soldier to the point of reverence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien