In either case, the map has been transformed into an object of reverence.
The place is idyllic, but Iliana, now an object of reverence rather than passion, is restless.
And for those accustomed to crooks in every corner of public life, English law is an object of reverence.
Translation: if the lines in Shakespeare's plays, written for and much enlivened by (sufficiently inspired) performance, make a legitimate object of reverence and study, what's your problem?
The volcano is an object of reverence and fear for most Congolese, who have learned the hard way to stay clear of it.
Even a rock 'n' roll T-shirt, an object of reverence for her peers, will not likely survive Ms. Cavaco's manic tinkering.
Several scholars have pointed out that chastity vows simultaneously turned priests into emasculated objects of mockery or disgust, but also into untouchable objects of reverence.
Back as far as history is written, white elephants have been objects of reverence and envy in the nations that are now Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
The term kami is often translated as "god," "lord," or "deity"; but it also includes other forces of nature, both good and evil, which, because of their superiority or divinity, become objects of reverence and respect.
What this illustrates is that great poets' remains can be objects of reverence to the same degree as those of saints, charismatic political leaders or rock stars, but this very preciousness entails a recurring grisly comedy of graves being dug up, coffins opened, relics purloined and tussles over ownership.
Reviewing the show in the Times, Michael Kimmelman wrote, "Sex and religion, crudely blended, make an incendiary cocktail, which Mr. Rhoades cheerfully serves up as festive comic spectacle, as if begging for a fight, while suggesting a purely aesthetic motif in the formal comparison of the Minimalist Kaaba to Minimalist sculpture, both as objects of reverence".
