All 5 Uses of
deference
in
Tender is the Night
- Deferential palms cool its flushed facade, and before it stretches a short dazzling beach.†
Chpt 1.1deferential = politely respectful
- She took the bus and rode with a pair of obsequious waiters to the station, embarrassed by their deferential silence, wanting to urge them: "Go on, talk, enjoy yourselves.†
Chpt 1.3
- He greeted his new guests with a proud bearing and an obvious deference to their infinite and unknown possibilities.
Chpt 1.6 *deference = polite respect
- When the subject of Mr. Denby fell of its own weight, he essayed other equally irrelative themes, but each time the very deference of Dick's attention seemed to paralyze him, and after a moment's stark pause the conversation that he had interrupted would go on without him.†
Chpt 1.7
- The Divers were older than the others in the boat—the young people were polite, deferential, but Nicole felt an undercurrent of "Who are these Numbers anyhow?" and she missed Dick's easy talent of taking control of situations and making them all right—he had concentrated on what he was going to try to do.†
Chpt 3.7deferential = politely respectful
Definition:
polite respect -- often when submitting to another's wishes