Vocabulary Word
Word: irreverence
Definition: lack of proper respect or reverence; ADJ. irreverent
Definition: lack of proper respect or reverence; ADJ. irreverent
Sentences Containing 'irreverence'
As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old shipmate, Bildad, without noticing his present irreverence, quietly looked up, and seeing me, glanced again inquiringly towards Peleg.
Ojeda does not seek to explode reality, to denote it with the flashy burden of art that is more junk than irreverence.
Winchester, however, presented a challenge to his colleagues' displays of irreverence because his surgical skills could match or even outshine theirs; his aristocratic manner and aversion to the puerile behavior served as the target for his fellow surgeons' barbs and jokes.
Allmovie called the film dull and lacking in comparison to Lewis' two previous efforts; "very little distinguishes "Color Me Blood Red" from its parent productions except a lack of enthusiasm, brashness, and irreverence, something that can't be said for the remainder of Lewis' oeuvre."
Nietzsche was an unabashed "radical aristocrat" who admired archaic Homeric individualism, the Viking warlords who became the Normans who sublimated their warlike energy into administrating Europe, personally from childhood was enmeshed in the feudal, martial element remaining in bourgeois culture; and Nietzsche's disavowal and irreverence for the Imperial Germany of his time was solely due to it policy of compromising with the "anarchist-socialist dogs", making concessions to democratic and socialistic demands Nietzsche found intolerable for cultural reasons.