It commands no respect, reverence or love.
The hallmark of his writing was a sensitivity rare in English prose: an almost unfailingly respectful attention (or "reverence", as he sometimes put it) to the speech and writing of people in all walks of life, coupled with a poet's sense of the nuances of such language.
"Arnold commanded such respect and reverence.
What if reverence toward God and standards of respectful human communication are irretrievably lost?
A respectful, silent kneel — even if it scrapes against the reverence for American flag that many NFL fans, myself included, feel — isn't unprofessional.
For his part, Churchill treated the princess with respectful affection and grew genuinely attached to her, assuming – in his reverence to royalty – the chivalrous role of a knightly champion.
It is to act with the right attitude, reverence, say, in the case of serving one's parents in an appropriately respectful manner, and it is to express such an attitude so gracefully and without internal conflict that doing so has become second nature (see Kupperman, 1999 and Cua, 1997).
Much of that is, both with joy and reverence, a backward-looking journey, where most of what I have seen creatively is a respectful and quiet expansion of the genre by its new young players.
It's one thing to be respectful, another to be worshipful, and Americans seem frighteningly oblivious to the cost to our society of its reverence toward the youngsters glibly known here as "our men and women in uniform".
Poetry was unlocked by reverence.
