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How to use irreverence in a sentence

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His great Northern instinct for plain speaking, his sharp wit and irreverence will be greatly missed.
John is old and waiting to die but the prospect of death hasn't dulled his appetite for invective or his irreverence for the great and the good.
She can then begin to rewrite them, with a twist, with humour, with irreverence, with blasphemy even.
And yet there's the childlike irreverence at times, the giggles, the non sequiturs, the references to such inane activities as shopping.
Goud has always exhibited a devilish irreverence for hierarchies, whether in art or in life.
She speaks of God or the gods with a delightful irreverence that never approaches blasphemy.
Indeed, 7 Stories has all the makings of an absurdist comedy, but beneath its veil of irreverence lurks a vehicle for lofty, provoking ideas.
They liked irreverence, taking the mickey, politically incorrect humour, mockery, satire.
However, this apparent irreverence toward the subject, an irreverence that is sometimes self-directed, is only Struth's lightness of being.
I thought he was very truthful and very funny, and I was drawn to his rebelliousness and irreverence.
There is a bit of sarcasm too that leavens the portrayal at times but it never veers to irreverence.
A mixture of anger, anti-establishment irreverence and workers' solidarity is documented by the 145 banners collected by the City of Edinburgh.
His sculptures combine charm, lightness and irreverence to offer insights and idiosyncracies.
There's a healthy irreverence at the heart of the movie, as well as plenty of dry Mancunian wit.
She was much beloved of many here, although unionists had many problems with her irreverence and perceived sympathy for Irish nationalism.
Thankfully, Kerrigan's personal, unapologetic film on rave culture maintains its irreverence.
For all its wacky irreverence, it is also a rather touching story of moral decay in an uncivilized world.
Combine all that talent and irreverence with classic soft rock and it's pure music alchemy.
The generalised irreverence of his earlier films has hardened into a focused attack on the equal absurdities of war and the British class system.
Or at least I, perhaps over-optimistically, aspired to humorous irreverence but let's move on.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In his boyhood one gets a flavor of irreverence which was slow in disappearing.
McGillicuddy had a way of bracketing the Deity with commanding officers, and did it with much simplicity and meant no irreverence.
There was no irreverence in the exclamation that broke from the girl's lips.
In this depth of grief and pity she felt that there was no irreverence in gazing at his altered, aged, faded, ruined face.
But he said London's irreverence has always been his inspiration and his escape from the snobbishness of Parisian haute couture.
But there was no sign of reawakening courage in his followers, rather, indeed, of growing terror at the irreverence of his words.
Hilbery was relieved and secretly amused at the thought of the interview, although he could not license such irreverence outwardly.
That is a circumstance which, without actual irreverence, one may wish had been ordered otherwise.
Her irony meant no irreverence but a vast derogation of Shad Wells.
There will be irreverence no longer, because I will not allow it.
But he had felt warmly the delicate sympathy with himself that underlay Valentin's fraternal irreverence, and he was most unwilling that his friend should pay a tax upon it.
The amour-propre that sustains them in their delusions of omnipotence is punctured by the raucous irreverence of those who guffaw at their unsmiling menace.
Agrawal's easy writing style, cheekiness and irreverence is irresistible, and her success proves that in business as in pizza, there's more than one way to slice a pie.
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