revere

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Under Richard Nixon, there was a loss of reverence for the position of the president.

She reveres human life.

She reveres democracy, but abhors politics.

We can't let reverence for the past keep us from planning for the future. Indeed, we dishonor those who preceded us if we rest on their legacy.

Most Chinese revered Mao.

Pat Tillman is revered for giving up a $3 million football contract to join the military after 9/11.

Hume argued that if children were taught religious reverence and intellectual humility, they would not fall victim to the philosophical arrogance that leads many to abandon religion.

His expression became awed, almost reverent.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

"Harry Potter is humble and modest," said Dobby reverently,  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

Because of this, I had come to respect pain, even revere it, as necessary and untouchable.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

What would Peeta think of the irreverent banter that passes between us as we break the law each day?  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

a woman of whom he spoke in reverential terms  (source) Betty Mahmoody, Not Without My Daughter, 1989

To one brought up as I had been this irreverence for the Old People was difficult to take.  (source) John Wyndham, The Chrysalids, 1955

This thought was of a broken-off piling which had jutted from the sand at Revere Beach.  (source) Stephen King, Misery, 1987

Revere listened gravely; this was not the first rumor to come his way that day.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000

His mother and father had taken him to Revere Beach often when he was a kid, and he had always insisted that they spread their blanket where he could keep an eye on that piling, which looked to him like the single jutting fang of a buried monster.  (source) Stephen King, Misery, 1987

At ten o'clock that night, Warren and Revere met.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000

These things all came at widely spaced intervals, but then as the pain itself began not to recede but to erode (as that Revere Beach piling must itself have eroded, he thought, because nothing is forever , although the child he had been would have scoffed at such heresy), outside things began to impinge more rapidly until the objective world, with all its freight of memory, experience, and prejudice, had pretty much re-established itself.  (source) Stephen King, Misery, 1987

Revere was spirited across Boston Harbor to the ferry landing at Charlestown.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000

Had that been at Revere Beach?  (source) Stephen King, Misery, 1987

Revere was carrying a sensational piece of news: the British were coming.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000

So why did Revere succeed where Dawes failed?  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000

Revere's news tipped and Dawes's didn't because of the differences between the two men.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000

Revere became a kind of unofficial clearing house for the anti-British forces.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000

Others — who may not have known Revere personally — might have been skeptical about the accuracy of his information.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000

Revere and his close friend Joseph Warren became more and more convinced that the British were about to make the major move that had long been rumored — to march to the town of Lexington, northwest of Boston, to arrest the colonial leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams, and then on to the town of Concord to seize the stores of guns and ammunition that some of the local colonial militia had stored there.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000