Sentence examples for reverence for something from inspiring English sources

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".

"It's not about the fine art worship of the machine as a rolling sculpture, but a reverence for the bike as something cool and something useful".

To speak of an "innate reverence for the miracle of something achieved by a human hand" is, in fact, to commend more than it is to dispraise.

Because it reveals, in Halliday's words "the innate reverence for the miracle of something achieved by a human hand still paramount in a community which owes all its wealth and power... to the success of the products of its machines".

Sometimes with lack of reverence for the history of something, you can carve out a new version of it that disrupts the older narrative.

"People who garden have an obvious love of life, a reverence for life, and to kill something in order to garden is very rough," says Liz Krieg, who runs the Rising Sun Greenhouses and Landscape Company in Bethel, Vt., and who dispatches only the scarlet lily beetle.

"If ever I meet a person who danced for him, I have a reverence for them because I know they know something about him I'll never know".

Orwell despised the book because of what he viewed as its fascistic reverence for sexual power, but the movie substitutes something more topical and subversive in those unsettled postwar years: an erotic dream of democracy.

4. Supporting the troops: In present-day America, expressing reverence for those who serve in uniform is something akin to a religious obligation.

Whoever she really is, the artist has painted her timeworn skin with tenderness and compassion and something more than that – a reverence for the wisdom that comes with wrinkles.

There is something deeply ironic about Abbott's reverence for the American model in defending many of his government's proposed "reforms".