Sentence examples for special esteem from inspiring English sources

Although the lwa are quite numerous, some are held in special esteem.

No Ming practitioner of traditional poetry has won special esteem, though Ming literati churned out poetry in prodigious quantities.

This is not to say that acts performed merely in accordance with duty are worthless (these still deserve approval and encouragement), but that special esteem is given to acts which are performed out of duty.

I admit I have always held them in special esteem ever since I first visited their lands at the height of the wars in the 1990s, but my entire team traveling with me felt the same.

In past centuries, hijras were the esteemed special guardians of royal harems.

We mourn the death of a giant of Reform Judaism whom we were privileged to call special friend and esteemed teacher.

Mugabe sank in world esteem— His special powers made critics scream.

It had been like asking for the Mona Lisa One reason for this difficulty is that this kind of art holds a special place in public esteem.

On Martin Bashir's show on MSNBC, Shapiro similarly denounced children's television for promoting "a self-esteem ethos, the idea that, to paraphrase Barney 'everyone is special'; an unearned self-esteem".

After dispatching "Julian Snorkel," "Jean-Michel Basketcase," "David Silly," and "Keith Boring," among others (and treating Snorkel — "Poor SoHo's cynosure, the dealer's dream, Much wind, slight talent, and vast self-esteem" — with special savagery), Hughes went on to mordantly inquire: Who are the patrons whose indulgent glance The painter craves, for whom the dealers dance?

"Princess" is believed to have been someone revered, with special knowledge, like an esteemed folktale narrator or a healer.