His sense of urgency, his impressive ego, his argumentativeness, his love of theatrics, his tendency to bend the truth, his willingness to risk lives or injury for his beliefs (or for publicity), and his courage (or recklessness) have earned him both loathing and veneration from those who are familiar with his activism.
However, as the primary link between the human and divine realms, temples attracted considerable veneration from ordinary Egyptians.
He noted that Lot's tomb was a site of "visitation and veneration from ancient times, the men of the age succeeding those who have gone before".
This in turn entailed a multiplicity of objects of veneration, ranging from other buddhas, such as Amitabha and Vairocana, to bodhisattvas, such as Avalokiteshvara, and eventually even to symbolic representations, such as scrolls reproducing the title of the Lotus Sutra, an early Mahayana scripture, in the calligraphy of the Japanese monk Nichiren (1222 82).
Opinions range from veneration of the plant as a spiritual sacrament or "a gift from the gods", to 'threat to society', to be banned as quickly as possible in order to "spare countless families the horror of losing a loved one to the relentless tentacles of drug abuse".
"I am wholly free from veneration of names or the cult of literary heroes".
Either way, he seems to have been an object of veneration, to judge from the wear on his toes and fingers.
Mr. Bensard, director of the Cinémathèque de la Danse in Paris, is one of Ms. Childs's many admirers on the European dance scene, where she (like Trisha Brown) has enjoyed a level of financial support and a consistent admiration, almost veneration, quite different from her standing in the United States.
But he seems to find his most important taxonomical principles elsewhere, e.g., in the passion's intensity (timidity is different from terror), whether its object is oneself or another (self-esteem differs from veneration), and in further modifications of the object and its relation to us (love is distinguished from the devotion we feel for an object "greater" than we are, such as God).
His veneration for Dante became more evident, and he made translations from the Divina Comedia and also from Virgil and Sophocles.
Looking beyond the questionable Windows 95 collabos and boy bands genetically engineered from bleach that punctuated the decade, the creative director developed a veneration for brands early attempts at subverting diversity in America.
