The tone of the whole volume is sympathetic, reverent and even affectionate, yet this is not an uncritical piece of hagiography.
My own profound conviction is that the efficacy of worship is in a reverent spirit rather than in ritual or parade.
She is not always referred to in reverent terms.
Are we to remove these laws simply because, in fact, they do not help to make people reverent or pure in heart?
That it should be a garden of remembrance seemed to me to be a right, proper and reverent use of a religious site.
As anyone knows who has attended one, a military funeral is both reverent and impressive.
The most careful inquiry has convinced me that a death grant of £15 is absolutely sufficient to provide a decent and reverent funeral, and to cover all miscellaneous expenses.
Their literary and speculative qualities are indeed exceptionally brilliant; they are splendid in diction, elaborate in argument, cogent yet reverent, keen while fearless in criticism.
