The pianist's appearance was of a piece with his music: spectacled, professorial, head bowed over the keyboard, oblivious to everything but his music as if, one critic said, he was "trying to find his own reflection in the keys".Peter Pettinger, the author of this welcome new biography, has been a member of the worshipful company of Evans admirers ever since he first heard him as a teenager.
A great deal has already been written about him, too much of it either worshipful or blindly hostile.
They also founded a society, the Worshipful Order for the Unbuttoning of Taylor, dedicated to the study of the three jacket buttons that one of their number always kept done up.Scatter plot"Peace finally returned, and the statistical scene in the United Kingdom had been completely transformed," wrote Barnard and Plackett.
Two books about Franklin Roosevelt are uncritical popular histories that are worshipful of his "bold, persistent experimentation".
But the kind that you extol in The Economist Review of books on the Supreme Court (September 6th) is skewed by your lofty superiority towards Justice Antonin Scalia, and your worshipful tone towards Ronald Dworkin.You say that Justice Scalia's position is incoherent because he does not say "when exactly" he feels bound to uphold precedent he considers to be wrong.
Advertisers may sniff at low-down gossip, but America's female readers seem happy to take their celebrity news any way they can get it true, false, worshipful or unkind.
Another is his authoritarian reputation, not dispelled by Forza Italia's worshipful congress.
Then in the past few days several bloggers have chewed over a weird self-portrait in Mr Dimon's Chicago house, showing only his expensively tailored upper torso, arms managerially akimbo.I generally find the extravagant media attention granted to very rich guys to be distasteful as such, and the rash of worshipful publicity Mr Dimon is receiving helped pinpoint one reason why.
Religion and morality are, however, usually taken to be distinguishable; religion concerns the being of a person, what he is and what he acknowledges as the worshipful reality, while morality concerns what the person does and the principles governing his relation to others.
In London the London Goldsmith's Company (later the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths) has been responsible for the assay and marking of plate, and the word hallmark means literally a mark applied at Goldsmith's Hall.
The top depicts the king in a worshipful pose, receiving the laws from the sun god, Shamash.
