They lurch awkwardly between reverence for the Dalai Lama and hints that he has become, politically, irrelevant or an obstacle.
Instead, the people will owe him respect and tawqeer – an Arabic term which means something between reverence and adoration.
Balancing gracefully between reverence and irreverence while deftly eluding irony, they jettison so much of painting's traditional baggage that they almost question themselves out of existence.
When he did photograph a big name the results convey the strange relationship of familiarity and reverence that exists between musicians and their admirers.
The chef, Joël Antunès, seems intent on some middle ground between reverence and mischief, and brings considerable training and experience to the task.
But something has gone awry in this production, which seems caught in a no-man's-land between reverence and modernity.
As Mr. Isaacson's concluding chapter points out, the perception of Franklin has fluctuated between reverence (from the great 19th-century capitalists of the Gilded Age) and scorn (from Hawthorne, Emerson and D. H. Lawrence, among others).
And then I remember the ancient archers frozen between reverence and necessity — who stare down the enemy, barbarians, as it's told, who nailed sacred cats to their shields, knowing their foes outraged in their piety would throw down their bows and wail like kittens.
Bushman is both an emeritus professor of history at Columbia and a practicing Mormon, and his exhaustive biography carefully treads a path between reverence and objectivity, as when he investigates the phenomenon of "plural marriage"; Smith, in order to establish "a Righteous race... uppon the Earth," had more than thirty wives.
Philadelphia changed the traditional formula, with a split stage, a split personality of the central character, with a public face and a private inner man (in Friel's words the "conscience, the secret thoughts, the id, the spirit"), and an audience split between reverence for the old ways and the inevitability of the new.
