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Muivah studied briefly in Beijing's College of Diplomacy, visited Vietnam and came back speaking reverently of Mao and Zhou Enlai - though he would later fuse their ideology with a deeply Christian nationalism.

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After one of star Cynthia Erivo’s solos, the audience clapped so loud, long and reverently, that tears came to the singer’s eyes — which only caused the crowd to cheer harder.

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“I see the hand of God in her,” Trujillo says reverently.

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Around the room, participants gazed reverently into their paper cups, some of them mouthing words silently.

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On a piece of wrapping paper he reverently carried in his hand was a charred piece of flesh he was taking for DNA analysis.

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