But very quickly, copies of the Koran became primary objects, esteemed for their beauty as well as their content.
And one that our esteemed editor, David Remnick, rightly objects to as a general policy.
This turn of events is due to the increasing number of scandals that have made several esteemed members of the legislature objects of disdain.
For no more than virginity can be restored after sex can the naive belief in an object's gender-specificity be reclaimed once that object's history of transgendering becomes memorable, especially when an object is as esteemed and collectable worldwide as are the Makonde body masks.
He was so confident, she thought, so sure that she still felt herself the lucky object of the esteemed professor's attention.
Soon the covers and pages of esteemed scientific journals featured images of such objects as a mouse, a finger, a lemon, a wrist and, finally, a human head.
The trophy may be an inanimate object, but its apparent influence means it is treated like an esteemed statesman wherever it goes.
Another object, the coffee table in the foreground with family snapshots proudly displayed under its glass top, underscores photography's esteemed place in black life.
I pity our esteemed minister.
And those ties are, quite naturally, being advertised at the National Museum of African Art, where objects from Kenya, the homeland of Mr. Obama's father, have been brought out, along with East African textiles of a kind traditionally printed in honor of esteemed leaders.
