He was not only ready to follow, if reverently, in the footsteps of Ovid, Petrarch and Dante; he was also ready to lead the way into the new world, just opening, of books being published for potential rather than actual readers, and of readers who were as likely to consume his wonderful writings in, of all things, silence.
He kept the objects safe in their glass cases, some reverently laid on red cloth.As for the field called Duranthon, he never ploughed it.
The punchline of the advertising campaign was "Only God knows what's in this bottle", which Mr Paul suggested could be read less reverently as "God alone knows what's in this bottle".
Where other archivists were reverently accumulating the papers of Lincoln or Dickens, he wanted Myrna Loy's dry-cleaning bills, Freddie Ayer's cheque stubs and Basil Rathbone's phone bills, if he could get them.His flattery of stars-to-be was as nothing compared with his wooing of his Hollywood favourites.
Dancers sway sinuously, while customers reverently sip their beer.
Others have compared it to Andy Warhol's first New York studio, the silver Factory a model that was surely not lost on Mr Ai, who has written reverently about the Pop artist.
On the other hand, like matrimony, an election is not to be taken in hand unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, duly considering the causes for which elections were ordained.
When Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia represented his brother, the king, at an Islamic summit last December, he was treated reverently as guest of honour.The Saudis used to fear Iran as an exporter of the "revolution of the oppressed masses".
Mrs Clinton was emphasising the importance of experience in bringing about solid legislative change (though one wonders what sort of experienced Democratic politician speaks anything but reverently of Dr King).
To memorialise the dead with stones or monuments, to wear their hair in brooches and to treat their bodies reverently, assured them another kind of life after death.
He visits local factories, nodding reverently at machines.
