Sentence examples for a veneration for from inspiring English sources

In their different ways, each shares a veneration for The Road to Oxiana.

Similarly, Banneker's attempts "to inspire a veneration for human life and a horror for war" fell mainly on deaf ears.

Brink has "almost a veneration" for Mandela himself, whom he wishes had stayed on for a second term in office.

About the only thing they share is a veneration for the mother of all country opera ventures, Glyndebourne.

A man of conservative instincts, with a veneration for history and culture and a devotion to his Lutheran faith, he acquired doctorates in economics and law.

Given that religion is not to be identified with ceremonies or "divine" precepts but with a veneration for the sublimity of nature, neither ceremonial performance (ingesting peyote as part of a ritual) nor doctrinal commands (refraining from work on the Sabbath) is essential to the true religious life.

For him, the hoe currency bore a kinship with the grubbing hoe he had found as a boy, suggesting a common veneration for iron in societies as diverse as the 19th-century Mumuye and 20th-century New Mexico.

I viewed them with pleasure: But still I retained a greater veneration for those of Pisa, which I had first admired: a preference which either arises from want of taste, or from the charm of novelty, by which the former were recommended to my attention.

As an admirer of James Joyce's work, she declares that she will only sell to someone who also has a certain veneration for the Irish writer, and who will pre serve, as far as possible, the atmosphere of the place.

This was very acceptable and pleasing to the people, who had a great veneration for Cornelia, not more for the sake of her father than for that of her children; and they afterwards erected a statue of brass in honour of her, with this inscription, Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi.

The definition that caught his attention came at the end of the entry in Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition: "a title of veneration for a dead person who may later be beatified" in the Roman Catholic Church.