Sentence examples for veneration at from inspiring English sources

At best they are profoundly flawed objects of veneration; at worst, object lessons in how not to think.

Love by Toni Morrison 212pp, Chatto & Windus, £16.99 Nobel Prize winner, Princeton professor, Oprah Book Club best-seller - Toni Morrison long ago reached that peak of literary veneration at which her regal, high-priestess face alone is sufficient adornment for the covers of her books.

The beginning of ancestor veneration at Paloma may be associated with an early astronomical alignment that becomes widespread in the larger settlements of the Peruvian Late Preceramic.

Delusions of grandeur, faith and the blindness it brings, a desire to live on through their kin, the loss of a child or a mother, a need for company, a drive for enlightenment, or maybe veneration, at all costs.

And this secular veneration does at least have the benefit of honesty and scepticism.

This veneration is at the heart of the revival of pre-Prohibition cocktails and the popularity of "Downton Abbey".

In the early church the veneration of saints at first was restricted to celebrations at their tombs, but the cult of saintly relics soon spread the devotion to particular saints to many areas.

In a 1972 survey of science fiction in The New Yorker, the critic Gerald Jonas mentioned Le Guin only in passing, noting the cultish veneration that undergraduates at the time felt for "The Left Hand of Darkness".

By Jon Michaud July 17 , 2009In a 1972 survey of science fiction in The New Yorker, the critic Gerald Jonas mentioned Le Guin only in passing, noting the cultish veneration that undergraduates at the time felt for "The Left Hand of Darkness".

Since the classes of unclean dead are believed to have been constantly increasing (in Macedonia, for example, it is believed that all those born in the three months between Christmas and Lady Day are unclean), then all of the dead once objects of veneration and piety will at some point be in danger of rancor, fear, and eventual disregard.

And so no president, I'm guessing, would know that the Maxwell House Haggadah -- the flimsy, wine-stained, rote, anti-intellectual Haggadah you get when you buy a can of coffee at Shoprite) -- is the target, alternatively, of great derision and veneration among American Jews (at least, I'm told there are people who venerate it).