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"reverential" Definitions
  1. showing deep respect

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The silence before the bertsolari begins to sing is reverential.
Should it be serious, irreverent, sarcastic, reverential or something else?
Rhye's falsely reverential idealization of intimacy is antithetical to pleasure.
Art became less reverential, but artists never stopped exploring the divine.
Two hundred men and women knelt in rapt and reverential silence.
People tend to grow reverential when talking about the First World War.
It's not totally being part of it, but it's a reverential thing.
And Mr. Hall's reverential adaptation cherishes the original screenplay's sputtering, didactic spiels.
The final track is nearly an hour long: a reverential, euphoric haze.
The piece feels reverential in its quiet quest to ward off evil.
But he was not nearly as reverential as Hagan was during the primary.
Simultaneously silly and reverential, the artwork represents a marriage of creativity, culture, and technology.
"The king is a father of the entire Thai people," one reverential woman said.
His sportswriting, which mixed careful research with personal recollections, was more realistic than reverential.
Indeed, at least two poems in Geometry of Shadows end with a reverential Amen.
It's as unswerving in its course as its heroine and just about as reverential.
The group told stories — some reverential, some "bawdy" — that reflected all aspects of Jon's personality.
Wales as a nation holds him in an incredibly dear place to its heart, reverential.
They are dutiful about guitar-rock songwriting without being explicitly reverential to a particular era.
"I definitely felt way more reverential about him then than I do now," she said.
Heavens, no: The show is deeply respectful of the world's largest Christian denomination, even reverential.
Co-workers at the newspaper would speak of The Albatross in hushed, almost reverential tones.
Perhaps it was the proximity of the church, but there was something reverential about their silence.
In a world of self-reverential hypocrites, his flaws are obvious for the world to see.
It was about my fear, my rage, my reverential terror and inability to exist within that.
The mood was at once reverential and celebratory, fueled by musical ensembles and indigenous dance groups.
Together they have pulled off a retrospective that manages to be revelatory without being overly reverential.
The art, lit with reverential spots, is tall columns of wallpaper and a few rectangles of tapestry.
My in-laws, whom I referred to with the reverential Auntie and Uncle, go back every December.
Perhaps because of that, the woods inspire an almost reverential fear in Japan and, increasingly, beyond it.
The Ramones, the shaggy galoots of CBGB, are currently subjects of a reverential exhibition at the Queens Museum.
Mr. Steiger speaks in reverential tones of the poet Mary Oliver, her awe at the natural world's grandeur.
The Tyrion in the Thrones finale couldn't be further from that reverential man we saw just 10 episodes ago.
WALTER BAGEHOT wrote that a constitution needed both "dignified" (ceremonial and reverential) and "efficient" (straightforward and rule-based) parts.
It's all set to to a gentle, country-ish melody and builds to a quiet but reverential choral finale.
The happy result is a gathering of masterpieces that reveals the private personality of the man: generous, reverential, obsessive.
A few minutes later, cursing could be heard coming from a London dealer's booth, breaking the quiet, reverential atmosphere.
There were reverential interviews in Russia, Israel, Australia, Germany and Italy and, for several years, red carpets at Cannes.
A reverential guide points out a chic white racing stripe along the dark green fuselage, painted at Jacqueline Kennedy's suggestion.
No one talks about their family-through-marriage in such a dramatically reverential and personal way — not even on Riverdale.
After a reverential Vanity Fair profile and awkward couch announcement at his home, he is now seeking to become ... something.
More likely, though, this tableau is a deadpan satire of the reverential classical-music rituals that arose in Wagner's wake.
When Tabard recounts a childhood visit to a Méliès film set, Mr. Stuhlbarg's narration establishes a bittersweet but reverential tone.
In reverential tones Mr Schulz recalled his 20-year-old self receiving a book as a prize from the great man.
Gazing at this wispy, gleaming spider silk sculpture, while listening to the chaotic yet captivating music, is deeply contemplative, even reverential.
While this is a comedy that also makes fun of them, it's really irreverent and yet reverential at the same time.
A completely different and reverential Trump emerged in the final Miami debate, so Clinton's team has to prepare for all potential contingencies.
North Korea's news media gave zealous coverage to Mr. Kim as he presided over the roomful of reverential negotiators from the South.
It's a pretty reverential, straight-up cover, without any big changes, but hey: if a song's great, why try to change it?
The dance functioned as a kind of reverential protest, mimicking in its movements the journey all migrants must take across water and land.
Her paintings are as intricate and earnest as ever, her pumpkin mirror room tells a story that is equal parts lonely and reverential.
He was defiant at the time—the ingestion was not intended as a reverential act—but Haskell sees the event as a communion.
But in 2013, Cohen exited the project, frustrated that the Queen members involved wanted a reverential portrait of Mercury, not necessarily an accurate one.
Thomas, who had studied in St. Petersburg, looked with a reverential air for major addresses while Olesya reminisced about a visit a decade earlier.
It is referential (and reverential) enough to Marvel traditions to please the geek armies, and perfectly accessible to new recruits or part-time warriors.
The Renaissance-era painting is a reverential depiction of Jesus Christ, and Muslims believe that Jesus is not the savior but instead a prophet.
It would've been just as powerful an arc had the investigators been practically reverential — as has been reported — and in "just doing their jobs" mode.
Stuck in its ways in the most reverential sense of the phrase, it's a seam in time, providing safe passage to an older, odder Philadelphia.
If she seemed a bit tentative and over-reverential at the start of this overflowing exultation, she rose wholeheartedly to the "Allelujah," with effortless coloratura.
A creation about them might easily have turned into a series of reverential obituaries, but Mr. Honoré gives "Les Idoles" a welcome lightness of touch.
But Mr. Trump has also spoken of China in almost reverential terms and elevated Beijing as a critical player to resolving the North Korean nuclear standoff.
If anything, Garland's portrayals seem reverential, leavened by distortions that occasionally make an overstuffed chair resemble the 80-year-old grandmother you would imagine sitting in it.
What seemed impossible is now more than plausible: Donald J. Trump, the self-reverential deal maker, could pull off a hostile takeover of the Grand Old Party.
In her recently published memoir And Now I Have Everything, Meaghan O'Connell offers a "radical" alternative to the hushed, reverential language typically used to speak about motherhood.
But those who discover the comparatively quiet, unbuttoned Berkshires frequently talk about the place with reverential wonder, as though they have been let in on a secret.
He's taken something very negative, and through his genius, he has created work that is so reverential to the people, the community and the culture of Africa.
At the time, Mr. Trump spoke of Mr. Mattis in reverential and almost awe-struck terms, gleefully referred to him as "Mad Dog," a nickname Mr. Mattis detests.
I began to imagine the reverential descriptions read aloud by Don Pardo, the former "Saturday Night Live" announcer, his voice a Mocha-Java blend of seriousness and ridicule.
Indeed, the book is also a study of a daughter's love for her father — reverential, deferential, apt to make an agnosticism for wine seem like a significant betrayal.
In 1979, Mr. Pannella managed to upstage Pope John Paul II's Easter benediction by staging a reverential march of nonbelievers to St. Peter's Square on behalf of hungry children.
" When discussing that day in Holland, Petrozza was equally reverential: "We were excited when we heard that they would open for Venom and everyone went there to see Metallica.
But I think in a way our naiveté about it was to our advantage, because we didn't go in being reverential of any of the stars of the Bolshoi.
Wenders's approach is perhaps too reverential, but he gets substantial interview time with Pope Francis and deftly underscores the modest, empathetic message he's trying to send around the world.
Rather than twist it into something abstract, the veteran artist has taken a reverential approach to the song, capturing much of the original feeling of the Lou Reed composition.
Even formally, there's a reverential quality to how you frame your subjects that perhaps connects you more to those religious artists of the past than to contemporary artists of today.
I don't necessarily disagree with that, but what the Wachowskis have done in their career is more or less the same, just more respectful and reverential to the source material.
Some protest artworks depict the movement's heroes — including Lady Liberty Hong Kong and a demonstrator in a yellow raincoat who fell from a building in June — in somber, reverential terms.
Spitz is too reverential of any Bowie anecdote, even the ones without a point, and simultaneously too likely to divert the narrative into the kinds of cultural critiques that Buckley avoids.
"We want to make it as entertaining as possible — reverential and respectful but also fun and emotional," Jennifer Todd, one of the lead producers of the Academy Award, told the Times.
Pliskova did not appreciate the cheers for her errant first serves in a tight fourth-round match against Venus Williams, but no one has ever confused this tournament with reverential Wimbledon.
Missing, however, is his typically skillful manipulation of tension, partly because his tone veers so often from jokey to reverential, from winking at the western to making a sacrament of it.
It's a period piece that's almost reverential, while also lodging critiques of both convent life and the reforms that greatly reduced the number of women who felt compelled to live it.
Even though most of his appearances were exclusively on Fox News, which took an even more reverential tone with him than usual, the things he said spread well beyond that channel.
More than 90 objects from this college museum and the Brooklyn Museum collection suggest the reverential treatment the animals received in life and death (sometimes being mummified, just like the pharaohs).
The first Mr. McCain was the one the public saw a lot on television: irreverent, cheerful, reverential — of veterans, senior voters, Gold Star mothers, small-business owners — and thoughtful about policy.
Like Italian-Americans, Italian-Australians have their own dishes and sayings and way of life, one that's profoundly reverential of the old country and grateful for the bounty of this country.
On a more political note, the work could be taken as a commentary on the place — or lack of — religious imagery today, and how it is treated not as reverential, but obsolete.
The angle of the window reveals the photographer to be shooting from below, with a sort of reverential gaze upward, and also allows for the sky to be reflected in the glass.
Though Nelson nearly always tips a reverential hat to the performing arts in his plays, the sense of art as both a mirror to and ordering force in life is paramount here.
Women stood in elaborate, old-fashioned white dresses during the reverential "Pray You Catch Me," then fell to the stage in puddles of bloody red light as the song's sorrow grew overwhelming.
Chris conceived this idea and it will be completely reverential to the legacy of the material while reinvigorating the brand with his wit, creative vision, and passion for this classic horror franchise.
While reverential to acts like Dungen, The Kinks, and The Flaming Lips, the LP didn't just rely on riffs and kooky lyrics, which would risk rendering Tame Impala as the cool kid's Wolfmother.
It's an anodyne fan flick that casts only furtive glances in Ferrante's direction, as if the filmmaker, Giacomo Durzi, were a reverential subject who doesn't dare to make eye contact with the queen.
In "Aquarian," Daniel Rossen sings, "Every moment brings a bitter choice/The knowledge you can't win with what remains," yet a processional beat and reverential organ chords suggest pomp and pride, not resignation.
Sparse at first, it keeps sprouting new motifs and sounds — reverential organ, pizzicato strings, quasi-medieval choir harmonies, a stereo array of percussion, pitched-up voices — simulations of fecundity on a dying planet.
It would be so trite and cliché to mention the New York Times and Washington Post and their reverential Fourth Estate treatment of classified documents during the latter stages of the Vietnam War.
" He continued, "Chris conceived this idea and it will be completely reverential to the legacy of the material while reinvigorating the brand with his wit, creative vision and passion for this classic horror franchise.
Storr's book begins with an extended, reverential interview with him by the volume's editor, Francesca Pietropaolo, which provides the reader a nuanced sense of the relationship between Storr and the artists he is engaging.
Dance beats sometimes arrive with a subdued four-on-the-floor thump, as in "Deliverance," but not always; RY X likes waltzes, too, including "Only," which starts out folky and turns choirlike and reverential.
In my case, I was invited to play at the Emirates Club with a U.A.E. education expert and the famed Indian mystic, poet and yogi Jaggi Vasudev, who goes by his reverential name, Sadhguru.
The production applies the reverential tone and cavernous reverberations of Sigur Ros — tolling piano notes, slow cymbal crescendos, shivery string tremolos — while Jónsi's high voice hovers, in wordless oohs and ahs, like a distant benediction.
Long before United Airlines achieved infamy by dragging a customer off a plane, it provoked an outburst from a monk who until then had lived in reverential peace in an isolated complex in New Mexico.
Suffice to say, there's no guest spot from any upcoming grime MC, but owing to pristine production, crucially and mercifully it sounds like a record from the future, not a reverential ode to some wistful past.
It's the kind of item that will sell out in minutes at Dover Street Market and be greeted for years to come with a reverential tweetstorm whenever it pops up on men's luxury resale site Grailed.
What makes championship runs like the one they're on so rare and reverential is the difficulty that comes with pulling different egos, skill-sets, backgrounds, and personalities in one direction without a wheel falling off the wagon.
And when Mr. Mugabe was finally overthrown by the military in November 2017, long after he had laid waste to his once-prosperous land and revealed his dictatorial face, the generals treated him with almost reverential deference.
Now entering his third season as creative director, Alessandro Michele has generated a near-reverential aura around himself and gender-bending, nostalgia-tinged spectacles, and he has been touted as Gucci's commercial savior after a spike in sales.
What, then, would they — or for that matter, a medieval European peasant or a meat-and-potatoes American of the 1950s — make of the reverential plate at Vicia in St. Louis, listed on the menu as "Naked Vegetables"?
With its fusty wood-paneled walls, reverential oil portraits of dead white men, and buffet tables of beef tenderloin and goopy creamed spinach, it was a jarring setting for a night devoted to a story of racial inequality.
" He writes that the latter half of the 19th century was "an incredible era of violence, greed, audacity, sentimentality, undirected exuberance, and an almost reverential attitude toward the ideal of personal freedom for those who already had it.
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake detected near a known nuclear test site signaled that North Korea had probably conducted a fourth nuclear test, and that is what state TV told its audience, in the reverential tones saved for historical events.
Ms. Caballé was, critics concurred, one of the sublime representatives of a type of diva most often associated with a bygone, golden era: smolderingly regal, seemingly inscrutable, a larger-than-life presence accorded godlike status by her reverential public.
These are the compassion of agápē, ephemeral sparks of "participatory consciousness," such as when we are emotionally swept up within a group dynamic (koinonia), and the kind of reverential devotion that religious believers might hold towards a deity (sebomai).
Margaret Atwood, the author of the 1985 dystopian classic The Handmaid's Tale, was already writing a sequel when President Donald Trump was elected—a stunning win that caused many of her already reverential readers to call her a prophet.
Her self-titled 2005 LP on Mahogani is super-tight, Nikki-O's dreamy lyricism and honeyed voice alongside Moodyman's production is an evocative portrait of Detroit and perfect for Nicholas' reverential attention to the moods and desires of the dancefloor.
Renato worked with an almost reverential consideration of what he was painting on, creating his own fusion of art, nature and the haphazardness of everyday life and adding something of his own to the history of postwar Latin American modernism.
American concert films of the time were full of psychedelic effects and focused on audiences, but the continental approach was reverential, positioning these players as highbrow artworks unto themselves, their improvisations ready to be studied like a painter's brush strokes.
The Camden International Film Festival invites a worldwide audience to enjoy my home of Maine in the way I have always loved it, but rarely wished to admit: with raw Mainerism at a reverential distance, and full of international artists.
Audaciously traditional, Mr. Adès's first "proper" piano concerto, as he described it, has flashes of reverential familiarity — a little Gershwin, a little Beethoven — though they're nearly impossible to place, and are distorted through the prism of this composer's wry sensibility.
" 'We were literally crying' The long-lost slippers were shown to reporters Tuesday at the FBI's Minneapolis headquarters in a news conference conducted in reverential tones, with repeated references to rainbows and the memorable quote "there's no place like home.
But the panel took on a somber, reverential tone before any talk of the new episodes could commence as the TWD team paid tribute to 33-year-old stuntman John Bernecker, who died July 12 at an Atlanta hospital after falling 30 ft.
It's hard not to speak in reverential paradoxes about her playing: As she gets to the movement's great, gentle central melody, it's as if she's wandered into it — and yet it would be crazy to say that there's not intention behind every note.
"We want to make it as entertaining as possible — reverential and respectful but also fun and emotional," said Jennifer Todd, one of the lead producers of the Academy Awards, which will be hosted for the second year in a row by Jimmy Kimmel.
The photos are informative about a kind of musical tradition that is disappearing, but they are also tender, reverential documents about a people, place and time that live on as a persistent part of American culture even though it is also fading.
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter:  Shaiman's lush underscoring enriches the movie throughout, and his songs with co-lyricist Wittman are their best since Hairspray, full of personality and humor, and reverential without being slavish in their adherence to the musical patterns of the first film.
But, as she explained, after writing original songs for its soundtrack—including the romantic swinging "Lovers on Display" and the reverential "Cairo, IL"—Hemby found herself being encouraged by her peers from Morris to Brandy Clark to release the collection as a standalone album.
"The AfD is the last revolutionary, the last peaceful chance for our fatherland," declared the man, Björn Höcke, referring to the political party Alternative for Germany, and employing a reverential term for Germany, one of several nationalist buzzwords usually shunned in the country's politics.
Mr. Trump made a big mistake by demeaning civil servants from the outset (his awkward, self-reverential speech to the C.I.A. on his first full day in office was an embarrassment and also an omen) and then setting about trying to make them irrelevant.
Like Olivier's, Gilot's book is neither scholarly nor reverential but rather a tell-all of the couple's time together, from their first meeting—by chance at a restaurant in Paris in May 299, during the German occupation—to the bitter aftermath of their breakup.
Throughout their career together, the band took an approach to covers that was almost like that of a crate-digging DJ. They got in some of the hits, taking on songs by the likes of The Beatles, T. Rex and the Velvet Underground in reverential ways.
The moment this most cliched of terms fell from Neville's guileless lips, the mood changed in the studio, with Dan Walker taking on the reverential air of a high priest, fulfilling his duties as the custodian and defender of that holiest cornerstone of punditry: the 'world class' debate.
Theoretically I'd enjoy the desecration of sacred cows, as when "Hallelujah" becomes a dance banger complete with Europop hook, but the song selection irritates not so much for projecting reverential nostalgia but rather for its treatment of the past as a monolith and its consequent failure to engage.
And reverential: adorning a sweet-seller's stall in a buzzing market in Bangkok, Thailand's capital, are a dozen laminated pictures of the 244-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej who, on the throne since 263, is the world's longest-reigning monarch, indeed the only king most Thais have ever known.
While no longer reverential, these accounts are always heroic in the core sense of showing us men, and now, occasionally, women, who transcend their flaws with spirit (though these flaws may include little things like holding other human beings as property, dividing their families, and selling off their children).
In doing so, he transformed a glittering awards show long known for self-reverential pomp into a 3 1/2-hour live ABC telecast punctuated by withering satire riffing on issues of inclusion and diversity raised by the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite social media campaign and the Black Lives Matter movement.
The show would strike reverential notes with Church's spare rendition of the gospel standard and with Carrie Underwood's later tearful tribute to the fallen, but with the opening number, "the idea was we needed to crush having fun and celebrating life and that's what we were there to do," Smyth says.
During a recent Saturday evening performance, the full house in the Stage II theater was nothing but warm and engaged, laughing at the humor Mr. Hunter employs to leaven a story that darkens as it builds, and otherwise quietly reverential, signaling a connection to the universal qualities the playwright evokes.
To be a good citizen of the Nashville music community requires consistently showing up to pay homage to its luminaries, and to tradition itself, at such ceremonial affairs, but Ms. Krauss, 45, is an especially coveted presence: She can be counted on to interpret other artists' repertoires with reverential grace.
The contents of the performance's political critique were obvious: that the U.S. prison system disproportionately incarcerates African-American and Latino men; and that the white-walled art gallery, rather than just a space for reverential display, can also be understood as a metaphorical prison that entraps artists and their work inside.
If there is an explanation for why Catholics have formed the backbone of the pro-life movement, it is here: Their reverential deference to Mary helps contextualize the birth of the embryo, miraculous as it might be, in the context of the woman whose life is so severely affected by it.
"Parasite," a genre-defying tale of class warfare, allowed voters to simultaneously embrace the future — Hollywood may finally be starting to move past its overreliance on white stories told by white filmmakers — and remain reverential to decades-old tradition: Unlike some other best-picture nominees, "Parasite" was given a conventional release in theaters.
Advertising Carrie Brownstein, the actress known for the series "Portlandia," wrote and directed a short film last fall that pokes fun at the exaggerated comments people post under pictures of celebrities on social media, showing what would happen if reverential remarks like "Mom" or "marry me" played out in the real world.
CHONGQING, China (Reuters) - In this steamy metropolis of more than 30 million people on the banks of the Yangtze River, it doesn't take much to find people who still talk in reverential terms about Bo Xilai, Chongqing's incarcerated and disgraced former Communist Party head who was removed from office more than five years ago.
It had one-too-many clunky moments, from the bizarrely reverential prominence shown to supermodel Gisele Bundchen gingerly ambling across the entire length of the stage, to the totally-worthy-but-come-on-wrap-this-up bit on sustainability—the good work of which was surely negated by the number of people who went and put the kettle on.
Such an atmosphere of reverential awe is the grounds for the movement's insistence on the name "pro-life": Our opposition to abortion and other forms of unjustified killing is grounded in this more basic, more central construal of human life as a terrible good, a mysterious wonder, a mildly insane risk that is still worth taking.
Novitiate, a film about nuns in a strict order having to come to terms with the implications of Vatican II, the reforms enacted in Roman Catholicism meant to adjust the church's practices to a rapidly modernizing world, is almost reverential, while also lodging critiques of both convent life and the reforms that greatly reduced the number of those living it.
Viewed head-on, attention is drawn to the Classic European details (including a white man) visible in an oil painting crumpled in his desperate grip; viewed from behind, it seems as though Kaphar's figure is kneeling before Kehinde Wiley's "Treisha Lowe" (2012), perhaps astonished or reverential to have found a regal black woman lurking below the surface of the painting he tore away.
JON PARELES It's hard to imagine a more despondent breakup song than Anonhi's "I Don't Love You Anymore," which circles through loneliness, near-suicidal sorrow, bittersweet memories, anger and a final unfinished hypothetical: "If you showed up at my door..." Reverential organ chords and a muffled rhythm like a heartbeat are pressured, gradually but relentlessly, by increasingly stormy electronics; a melody that starts as an incantation rises as the lyrics offer painful details.
Yet, while he will always be known as a photographer, the title The Perfect Medium does not refer to Mapplethorpe's choice of creative discipline as much as to Mapplethorpe himself, because it uncovers his true nature as an interdisciplinary fine artist who not only created photographs, but also made collages, assemblages, sculptures, films, and even jewelry, all with the same compositional eye that the artist himself attributed to his Catholic upbringing and early appreciation of symmetry and the reverential nature of biblical art.
A block east of San Pablo, in a storefront behind a pumpkin-colored facade, Cabuche is a festive restaurant serving reverential interpretations of street food and market staples: huaraches Menonita, edible tablets of sandal-shaped masa topped with tasajo (dried salted beef); Oaxacan string cheese and purslane (130 pesos, or about $7); and deeply flavorful soups, ranging from classic pozoles (choose between the red, green or white version, starting at 60 pesos) and a fiery shrimp caldo called levantamuertos (translation: raises the dead, 130 pesos).

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