The audience came with an attitude of reverence.
The majesty of her presentation — with sculptural mass in a monumentally composed and compressed, wide-angle view — would stand me off, in an attitude of reverence, even if she were naked.
'There's an attitude of reverence and awe and love, in terms of very corporeal love with God, as well as with people.' Will he really record an album for each of the 50 states?
All the same – and typically – this attitude of reverence did not prevent him from affixing to the top of his own Braun electric toothbrush the giant set of sugar-pink confectionery teeth his young son had bought him as a present from Brighton.
Here, the philosopher argues that teachers should have an attitude of "reverence" for something deep within each child: "something sacred, indefinable, unlimited, something individual and strangely precious, the growing principle of life, an embodied fragment of the dumb striving of the world".
Although this Latin word is correctly translated into English as 'religion', its literal meaning is 'binding down', and it therefore serves Lucretius as a term, not for all attitudes of reverence towards the divine, but for those which cow people's spirits, rather than, as he thinks such attitudes should, elevate them to a joyful state of tranquility.
All this demands from filmgoers an attitude of awe and reverence: the religious architecture tells you the film showing inside must have the sublimity of some divine revelation.
Ethical cultures demand, among those shaping them, an understanding of our Constitutional history, an attitude of awe and reverence to the obligations of public service, and skills in fostering integrity, dissent, and ethical decision-making.
Piety doesn't have to do anything; it is an attitude of respect and care, even of reverence.
As noted in section 2.2 Confucian rituals help to express attitudes of respect and reverence for others that can exist independently of the rituals themselves, but rituals provide conventionally established, symbolic ways to express these attitudes toward others.
As indicated above, 9.3 suggests that the attitudes of respect and reverence that are expressed by ritual forms are not reducible to any particular set of such forms, and Shun has a point in arguing that such attitudes could be expressed by different sets of such forms as established by different communities.
