Sentence examples for acts of reverence from inspiring English sources

Gross, or overt, idolatry consists of explicit acts of reverence addressed to a person or an object the sun, the king, an animal, a statue.

"It's the ultimate act of reverence".

So I guess — I would interpret it as an act of reverence, just like Dante's silence, whenever he meets Guinizelli is an act of reverence.

This simple and spontaneous act of reverence seems sadly unthinkable in today's Egypt.

It becomes a ritual act of reverence for the picture you are about to make".

On the conclusion of this act of reverence, the ritualists removed the offerings from the altar and the service ended.

For all the great founders of modern science - Galileo, Newton, Descartes, Robert Boyle, John Ray and their Muslim predecessors - their research was itself an act of reverence.

It is an almost inevitable act of reverence, done when a notable columnist dies or retires or even quits under fire.

Echoing one of Gomes's gestures in the ballet, she encircled him with her arms and lowered herself to the floor, an act of reverence and self-abnegation.

(Dargis) 'The Great Gatsby' (PG-13, 2 22) Baz Luhrmann's lavish adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved novel is at once a travesty and an act of reverence, mostly in a good way.

(Genzlinger) 'The Great Gatsby' (PG-13, 2 22) Baz Luhrmann's lavish adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved novel is at once a travesty and an act of reverence, mostly in a good way.