Voorbeelden van reverence

• Natural philosophy was supposed to lead to moral virtue, to modesty and religious reverence.

• He fears that the result will be a language that will reduce 'truth, reverence, deliberation, and honest feeling' to secondary functions.

• At the same time, officers and their uniforms attracted reverence among those who could only aspire to this exalted position.

• Nor therefore does it feel the sentiment of respect or reverence for the moral law.

• This biography approaches its subject with reverence and absolute loyalty.

• With due reverence for philosophy, they rightly argue that an entire dimension of data has been ignored, namely, individual differences.

• The people held this idol in such reverence and awe that no one but his keepers dared approach or touch him.

• One could equally argue that the exhortation is for respect and not for religious reverence.

• This may in fact be taken as the simultaneous expression of reverence to a higher power and hope for good seasonal weather to come.

• Until the late eighteenth century spatial relationships between theatre performers and spectators provoked interaction rather than reverence.

• Even in the case of a private dispute, it seems, once the dispute was brought to official notice, habitual reverence for the written word prevailed.

• The common law was as much a part of the ancient constitution as the nation's political institutions and should be treated with comparable reverence.

• The committee concluded that the ground in which one's forefathers rested should be treated with reverence by the living generation.

• Heart-and-soul devotion to a cause, heart-and-soul loyalty to associates, fidelity to the death, are virtues which command our involuntary reverence.

• It does not always show any due reverence to authorship.