reverence
Example Sentences
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Like the members of Jelly of the Month Club, director Rob Perez is a multi-instrumentalist and producer with a deep reverence for classic rock and Charles Schulz cartoons.
From Los Angeles Times
He stared at the book with reverence, and as his eyes traced the handwritten letters, he realized it was his favorite story: “Sinchi and the Cliffs of Nowhere.”
From Literature
Contemporaries were convinced that his motivation for publishing Mansfield’s ephemera wasn’t so much reverence for her talent as greed for hard cash.
The Box describes Cook as a "cultural chronicler" who painted marginalised people and recorded their lives with joy, kindness and reverence.
From BBC
George and Owen walked through the charred trees with a quiet reverence, as though they were walking through a battlefield with hundreds of fallen soldiers.
From Literature
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