At the centre of it all is a shallow self-centred consumerism, coupled with a debilitating absence of fear and reverence for God. |
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They began to answer him with mansuetude and reverence, but afterward he smelled a fox under a sheep's clothing. |
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Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place. |
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Other diners are dotted around, whispering in conversation in reverence to the food. |
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Readers will experience the love and reverence Walter Mosley has crafted into this encouragement affirmation of all humanity. |
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Our folklore and arts and crafts reflect our love and reverence for the animal world. |
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Templeton is like a temple for Bedloe, a place of highest reverence where deities are worshipped. |
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At the same time, it opens you to a respect and a reverence in fact, for what is true and holy in other religions. |
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When they discover the laws of nature, they feel a sense of reverence, they feel a sense of awe, wonder, mystery. |
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If we reserve consecrated bread and wine and kneel before it, why should we not preserve the world with the same reverence? |
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The overall appearance of the sculpture is one of elegance and reverence reflecting the dignity of the memorial. |
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Punchithaya's tryst with art stems from his admiration and deep reverence for Nature. |
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He will be remembered with deep affection and reverence by the countless numbers of people whose lives he touched and influenced. |
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Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. |
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These words reflect the great reverence, respect and love that the Prophet always showed towards animals. |
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The woman's presence drew reverence from deep within Portia's soul, though Portia was unaware of the connecting path between their hearts. |
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We faithfully attend churches and other religious services, giving reverence and love to the One who called us into being. |
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The zombie genre is one rich in history and it takes a person with honor and reverence for that genre to pull off a good zombie flick. |
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That is because it is a part of our mourning for the oldest of sons to have his head shaved in reverence to a dead parent. |
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Your reverence, I saw four pure black bulls who came from the four directions to fight in the palace courtyard. |
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And there's something very wonderful and God-like about that unfolding that makes me want to reverence it. |
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Baptist spirituality takes to heart the divine command to honor father and mother, and to reverence gray hairs. |
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Therefore we reverence the Scriptures and assign them pride of place in our worship and teaching. |
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She was in awe of the powerful old leviathan, and adjusted its controls with a naive reverence. |
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By contrast, in the Orthodox Liturgy, there is an air of reverence, as well as an atmosphere of informality. |
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One's own ancestors are also revered in a manner that is inseparable, it would seem, from the reverence of the loa or orishas. |
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Hayes breathed out in reverence as he watched the day spreading across the planet. |
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The practice of mutual reverence for each other's spiritual and saintly figures will promote genuine mutual respect. |
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Are Scots more likely than Australians to observe their national day with reverence? |
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By avoiding excessive reverence, Lucas makes the first appearance of the black mask and costume a moment of profound sadness. |
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The failure of civil servants was that they regarded him with awestruck reverence. |
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We must remember that our bodies are temples and must be treated with reverence. |
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He wears a white chef coat and sturdy kitchen shoes, and speaks with the appropriate reverence about the great aged balsamic vinegar of Modena. |
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It has a reverence for nature, a belief that life energy exists in all things, both animate and inanimate. |
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Resch says his reverence for the past led him to begin to collect some memorabilia. |
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Now in our day new and more recent authors have appeared, who write on mensurable music with little reverence for their ancestors. |
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They clearly enjoy playing early music, and once they forget their reverence, they should treat us to a toe-tapping performance. |
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Beauty and reverence, we are told, were virtually banished from Anglicanism until the Tractarians arrived on the scene. |
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Most of them had a deep love of country and a reverence for family that rivaled the Japanese Shintoist. |
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Their reverence reaches its zenith here at the birthplace of the country's founder. |
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Applying the attribute of reverence to a mortal being borders on the blasphemous. |
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What is it that attracts some people to the dead body and makes them morbidly regard it as an object of reverence? |
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We now understand and value the reverence our ancestors had for Mother Nature in all her moods and seasons. |
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I saw him stand uncovered in the bitter air, with a reverence for something. |
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Like many other men who are unrepentant skirt-chasers, he appears to hold women in an awkward place between reverence, fear, and contempt. |
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It's about time that we began to recognize that inherited wealth is equally undeserving of our reverence. |
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They were told of how these sinners writhed and danced to their wicked music in an unholy reverence to their false idol. |
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For example, they were familiar with certain metals, including gold, which inspired mystical reverence as the perfect element. |
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A long phase of reverence for rationality subverted his original, spiritually frenetic passion for tragic mythopoeia. |
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It didn't happen very often and when it did it was greeted with the utmost of reverence. |
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Many of my students do not share my reverence for watching the broadcast evening newscasts. |
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I really appreciate his sense of reverence and broad-minded tolerance for various religions. |
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Illegal immigration threatens our sovereignty, our security, reverence for the rule of law. |
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He is bedecked with the crown styled in the Mughal form presented by the former Nizams of Hyderabad as a token of reverence. |
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With the building full to standing room only as he delivers his spiel, there is a definite air of sanctity and reverence. |
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Quite impressed with their reverence, she walked over to the cage and placed her birds in the cage with them. |
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Ramirez bowed his head in reverence, seeing once more the profound mind that lurked beneath Rakael's veneer of bickering and hauteur. |
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The compactness of the oratory contributed to the reverence and respect which was to be found everywhere. |
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Isn't this a heretical idea for those of us inclined toward deep reverence for the wild? |
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When we relate this reverence to our experience of the sublime, we have a sense, however fleeting, of the transcendental. |
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Siouan-speaking peoples also exhibit a reverence for the number seven, whereas Choctaws hold that the sacred number is four. |
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The appropriate reaction to such a man consists in awe and reverence and humility rather than contempt. |
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Some of the world's greatest living conductors still speak my name with hushed reverence. |
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The sheer reverence and admiration for these legends could be readily manipulated into fervent nationalist passion. |
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He regarded the man who had taught him calligraphy with such reverence that he would stand and hold the inkstand while his teacher worked. |
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A huge concourse of students, all but gaping with reverence, filled two rooms. |
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The group slowly filed into the small cell, circling the block in quiet reverence. |
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Yet this which should have consigned him to early oblivion really procured him immortality of fame and reverence. |
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The reverence given to the Constitution is one explanation for the very small number of constitutional amendments. |
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In line with this belief, devotional cults sprang up in which reverence and homage were offered and intercessions sought. |
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Why should modern reverence of ancient deities force them to fossilize when they were clearly organic and changeable in the past? |
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A sense of reverence and humility foster the spirit most conducive to creation. |
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She bowed her head and made a cross over her chest in reverence of the departed woman. |
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Stephen sat across from Olivia on the futon with his hands folded on his lap, starring at her with what Adrian would later describe as reverence. |
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The government is hostile to public ownership and holds private business in utter reverence. |
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He is one of the most popular objects of devotion and reverence in east Asian Buddhism. |
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Madlib has too much reverence for Wonder to butcher his songs with unnecessary hip-hop pyrotechnics. |
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He was no apologist, but the glittering, near-feverish eloquence of his writing suggests fascination, almost reverence. |
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A hymn to me is a song that contains a sense of equanimity and compassion, and a reverence for human relationships. |
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There's usually some restraint, there's usually some sort of reverence for the death penalty, in a sense, because it is such an extreme sanction. |
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In Spain, the dance is done to reverence the Blessed Sacrament, a consecrated wafer used in Communion. |
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The young often express their reverence by gathering in odorous packs and yelling loudly at bus stops. |
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Everyone hung their heads in reverence, and awaited the moment when the rain of meteors would came down. |
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Just a smattering of grooms and judges and the salmon-hatted wives of supermarket sponsors waiting to hand out rosettes watch with a wake-like reverence. |
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The signed letter that Winnie got in return, thanking her for the present, was passed around the family with astonished reverence. |
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They included the officers who had turned their backs on the Jumbotron, but there now was only reverence in their ranks. |
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And it was not treated with the reverence that has benefitted Yves Saint Laurent. |
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And the two senior priests, after bowing with reverence, enter the Sacrarium or wherever the Lord's Body is being reserved from the previous day and place. |
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The kneeling nuns, roused from their devout abstraction, made their reverence and went away. |
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But when they live in reverence and docility toward these Five, then do these five things conduce to the maintenance, the clarity, the presence of the true doctrine. |
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The decline in the proper understanding of the Holy Eucharist and the consequent decline in reverence and adoration, are not phenomena in isolation. |
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Studio films have scrapped most traces of oppositional sentiment, and reveled in general reverence for all the institutions of American capitalism. |
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Bigger than ever, the sport is at a crossroads, teetering between reverence for its healing past and fear of a pain-filled future. |
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The press pumps up many, but few receive such widespread public reverence. |
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I am thinking of awe, reverence, respect and emotions too deep for words. |
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It's all acres of plate glass, walnut fittings and the kind of hushed retail reverence usually reserved for unwearable frocks designed by gay men in Parisian ateliers. |
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However, not knowing any other mode to express their reverence, few students just fell on his feet and returned to their seats with a sense of pride writ large on their faces. |
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He had, as Weisbrode points out, a great reverence for the institution of monarchy, but a spotty record with monarchs. |
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If a layman or laywoman received Mass, it was in the form of the wafer of the host only, and as a result the chalice became an object of almost superstitious reverence. |
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I try to be tolerant of Muslims' reverence for their prophet and support their right to peaceably assemble over it. |
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All of this solemnity had the effect of devitalizing Potter's work, prematurely shrouding it with all the cobwebs of respectability and reverence. |
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The Druids, whose Stonehenge temples can be seen in England, regarded mistletoe with reverence and used to burn it in sacrifice during the solstitial festivities. |
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Michael immediately dropped to one knee, inclining his head in reverence. |
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Respect and reverence for all religious and philosophical traditions is at the heart of democratic civil society which makes student newspapers possible. |
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When the classical culture invaded Egypt, they sought to capture the deep reverence afforded to Thoth and amalgamated his characteristics into their own god Hermes. |
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But if we ask to be treated as children, we must relate to God the way the Torah expects a child to relate to a parent, with respect and reverence. |
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Even different species of flora and fauna find a place of reverence. |
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The first reason involves pietas, an ancient European, which is to say Roman, virtue that teaches us both reverence and gratitude for those on whose shoulders we stand. |
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That's why many view the law of the river with nearly biblical reverence. |
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As part of its reverence for objectivity, journalism esteems balance. |
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The 27-year-old director also exhibits a great reverence for his actors, whose performances often seem so spontaneous, many viewers mistakenly believe the film was improvised. |
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I wrote a long letter to your reverence after your religious profession. |
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Even when they appear to uphold religious traditions, in their hearts, heterodox rabbis, he claims, do not reverence the name of God they pretend to bless. |
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Like philosophy, jokes look critically and without reverence at the authority claimed by rulers, policemen, mothers-in-law, teachers, psychiatrists and all kinds of experts. |
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The crowd grew quiet as Symphony in Peril ended their set with an instrumental as Jonas lay prostrate on the ground with several of the concert-goers, in reverence to God. |
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His enthusiasm and commanding personality enabled him to influence greatly the work of many of his juniors, so that they came to reverence him as the founder of their careers. |
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Andrew Horn's documentary keeps just the right chilled distance from its evanescent subject matter and pays due reverence to Klaus without falling into titillation or fandom. |
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Brewers and legal experts speak of him in hushed tones, with equal parts irritation and reverence. |
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Their reverence for America's natural beauty was shared with contemporary American writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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Is not this a proper kind of reasoning? is this the reverence due to the scriptures, thus babishly to abuse them? |
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Past is everywhere present in Homage, and the book's blend of reverence and ironizing gamesmanship regarding that past is announced on the cover. |
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We therefore most devoutly promise God that we will henceforth pay greater reverence than ever to churches and holy places. |
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Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence. |
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Indigenous Australians have an oral culture with spiritual values based on reverence for the land and a belief in the Dreamtime. |
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Indigenous Australia's oral tradition and religious values are based upon reverence for the land and a belief in this Dreamtime. |
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The priests feel her presence by the cart, and, with deep reverence, attend her cart, which is drawn by heifers. |
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The chief causes of his victory over his opponents were his great popularity and the reverence paid to the episcopal character at that period. |
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The wai is a sign of respect and reverence for another, similar to the namaste greeting of India and Nepal. |
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Rituals often have a close connection with reverence, thus a ritual in many cases expresses reverence for a deity or idealized state of humanity. |
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Another form of religion called psycholatry holds in reverence the spirit of the departed. |
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There is again psycholatry, or the religious reverence paid to the spirits of the dead. |
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The Council of Trent did not focus on the style of music but on attitudes of worship and reverence during the mass. |
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When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government is lost. |
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I get the reverence for tradition that defines a place like ole Miss. |
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He has managed to show Mandela in a way that justifies why he is held in such reverence. |
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Midwives in America have a deep love for women and a reverence for the normal process of birth. |
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Labor Day is always a day that blends celebration with reverence. |
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Claudia Baez ' paintings are animated by reverence for the history of Western art, rendered in a contemporary expressionistic vocabulary. |
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Though ensconced in the seat of the Supreme One, Lahiri Mahasaya showed reverence to all men, irrespective of their differing merits. |
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God ought not to be commixed in our actions, but with awful reverence, and an attention full of honour and respect. |
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When you use good language, you invite the Spirit to be with you. Always use the names of God and Jesus Christ with reverence and respect. |
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These revised symbols were used to instil in the public a new sense of tradition and reverence for the Enlightenment and the Republic. |
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The three refuges are believed by Buddhists to be protective and a form of reverence. |
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Regardless, Britpop artists project a sense of reverence for British pop sounds of the past. |
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It shall hold His Name in reverence, and shall respect and honour religion. |
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Accordingly, the Orthodox consider Mary to be the Ark of the New Covenant and give her the respect and reverence as such. |
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They were threatened with torture if they did not give proper signs of reverence when mass was performed on the ship. |
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An association formed in 1891 to promote order and reverence in public services. |
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Due to its hunting prowess, the golden eagle is regarded with great mystic reverence in some ancient, tribal cultures. |
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The reverence accorded to Arnold is reflected in the most famous of English novels about schooldays, Tom Brown's Schooldays, written by Old Rugbeian Thomas Hughes. |
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His reverence for Aristotle conflicted with his rejection of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed to him barren, disputatious and wrong in its objectives. |
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Even though living conditions were lackluster, under the careful eye of her mother, Isabella was instructed in lessons of practical piety and in a deep reverence for religion. |
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Tchaikovsky may be well known, but he has been treated with such reverence that much of what we know is a combination of romance and pure fantasy. |
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The rich look and texture of the quality binding, add a touch of worship and reverence giving a sense of anticipation of the spiritual experience ahead for the reader. |
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Opinion-molding elites bent on indoctrinating the masses in the gospel of globalism worked to misdirect that reverence by focusing it on the creation, rather than the Creator. |
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It was essentially an act of reverence by one scholar for another, a final epitaph for the Ptolemy who had inspired Mercator's love of geography early in his life. |
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In locales exhibiting fantastic rock formations, such as the Grand Canyon, tourists often construct simple cairns in reverence of the larger counterparts. |
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The nation celebrated Flag Day on Tuesday was patriotism and reverence. |
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The reverence of my presence may be a curb to your exorbitancies. |
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And he told the Independent the lack of cultural nous and reverence of literary reference points by today's pop and rock vintage was cause for disheartenment. |
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The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence. |
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The Soviets promoted the reverence of Russian actions and characteristics, and the construction of Soviet structural hierarchies in the other countries of the Eastern Bloc. |
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