Sentence examples for an object of veneration from inspiring English sources

The meaning of an object of veneration is always, to some extent, in the eye of the venerator.

Yet we need not contort ourselves to find Forrest wanting as an object of veneration.

A format that at the outset seemed to threaten vested interests became an object of veneration.

The statue of Pratap Malla was an object of veneration in Kathmandu's Durbar Square.

Michelangelo's David, of course, isn't as naturally lively an object of veneration as Mae West.

He was buried in the nearby church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, where his tomb remains an object of veneration.

Used to a world of snow, they worship rainbows: the TV test card becomes an object of venerations.

Saint-Denis, shrine of the saint who had supposedly brought Christianity to Gaul, was an object of great veneration.

Alice, Ms. Vasquez's character, is discussed both as an object of idealized veneration and potential rape in ways that comment pungently on the perception of women at that time.

Sacred Pipe, also called Peace Pipe or Calumet, one of the central ceremonial objects of the Northeast Indians and Plains Indians of North America, it was an object of profound veneration that was smoked on ceremonial occasions.

The old Prado, a stolid neo-Classical behemoth with various expansions added to it since the early 19th century, naturally became an object of Spanish veneration over the years.