Sentence examples for the deference of from inspiring English sources
He replied with the deference of a happy husband.
What is odd, however, is the deference of critics and editors to those interests.
In that guise, he earned another laugh with the line "I've a preference for the deference of a metaphor".
Though generous and devoted, Ilya was always independent and showed little of the deference of vassal to lord.
Pozzo has nothing to commend him but his own arrogance, yet the deference of the others makes his position secure.
The team is a fraternity unto itself, and is accorded the top prize of social striving: the deference of its peers.
Why the deference to husbands of whom they were the intellectual equals?
The deference to the will of the people will go only so far.
His brother Max has the polite deference of an undergraduate waiting for office hours.
But he said he was not inclined to grant the traditional deference of delaying a vote for any reason at all.
And his first guest, Seth MacFarlane ("Family Guy"), who is promoting his film, "Ted," treated Mr. King with the amused deference of a nephew visiting an eccentric, beloved uncle.
