Reverential Sentence Examples

I asked, breaking the reverential silence.

In matters of the heart, if any consoling or any disturbing passion played a great part in his life, we do not know it; we know only (apart from a few passing shadows cast by calumny and envy) of affectionate and dignified relations with friends, patrons and pupils, of public and private regard mixed in the days of his youth with dazzled admiration, and in those of his age with something of reverential awe.

Every Wednesday afternoon he made a reverential pilgrimage to her tomb, and three times every day he invoked her memory in words of passionate expansion.

Later regulations are also laid down in the Talmuds in order to prevent any appearance of authority attaching to the translation, and also to ensure reverential 1 Cf.

An air of reverential awe attended the dead King.

Mr Allan had come into our office at Westminster to moan about the Guardian's insufficiently reverential attitude to Tony Blair once too often.

Men do not eat an animal for which they have a reverential dread, or if they eat it at all, it is only in a sacramental feast and in order to absorb into themselves its life and holy properties.

We do n't take the time anymore to be so reverential to places, we do n't give them that respect.

Athletic fans recall in almost reverential tones the huge quantity of drink they shared with their visitors.

In popular memory, This is Your Life stands as a rather reverential celebration of the famous.

However, it gave the service a very reverential feel and fitted well in a week where everything was solemn.

We don't take the time anymore to be so reverential to places, we don't give them that respect.

They may express faith in the Eucharist through manner, gesture, or reverential silence rather than verbally.

Mr Allan had come into our office at Westminster to moan about the Guardian 's insufficiently reverential attitude to Tony Blair once too often.

What has been described as the reverential approach to the revealed Word has typified all great revival preaching.

At the same time that the Neo-Platonists, like Ficino and Pico de la Mirandola, and the pantheists, whose God was little more than a reverential conception of the universe at large, and the purely worldly humanists, like Celtes and Bebel, were widely diverging each by his own particular path from the ecclesiastical Weltanschauung of the middle ages, Ulrich von Hutten was busy attacking the Curia in his witty Dialogues, in the name of German patriotism.

At stated intervals to offer reverential homage and oblations of food to the forefathers up to the third degree is one of the most sacred duties the devout Hindu has to discharge.

His eclecticism was the proof of a reverential sympathy with the struggles of human thought to attain to certainty in the highest problems of speculation.

Personally, I think people might be being just a little bit too reverential to the source material.

The soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats.

The supposed "atheism" of Lucretius proceeds from a more deeply reverential spirit than that of the majority of professed believers in all times.