Adjective : a venerable member of Congress. ,the venerable halls of the abbey. ,a venerable oak tree. ,a venerable automobile. From Dictionary.com.
"I lived in the family of the Countess -, at Cintra, when your venerability was her spiritual guide.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
“I lived in the family of the Countess —, at Cintra, when your venerability was her spiritual guide.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain] Reference
Spotting a venerability, advertisers are swooping in. From Wordnik.com. [Lucas Conley: What's a Little Marketing Between Friends? Two Years Hard Time] Reference
ERVIN: Well, it certainly does expose a venerability, Kiran. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2007] Reference
His destination, Harold's Terran Bar, had a certain venerability, too. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
If Burke's "myth of imperial venerability" relied on the scapegoating of Warren. From Wordnik.com. [The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism] Reference
Despite the venerability of some its mechanics, this feels invigoratingly fresh. From Wordnik.com. [This week's new games] Reference
Americans, was thrilled at the aura of venerability and royal custom surrounding the estate. From Wordnik.com. [My Father, the Cat] Reference
The Taliban are priest-motivated juvenile delinquents moving toward Hells Angel's venerability. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen C. Rose: Why George W. Bush Made Me Sick Yesterday] Reference
The applause from the old people's home residents was somewhat subdued by their arthritic venerability. From Wordnik.com. [Confessional] Reference
Hey, there are still plenty of old above-the-title types out there whose names shimmer with venerability. From Wordnik.com. [London Theater Journal: M. Poirot and the Mysterious Case of the Sore Throats - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
I think it may be the pale skin, dark hair and sense of venerability that they both bring to their roles. From Wordnik.com. [Isabelle Adjani - Making Art Out of Madness] Reference
The odd thing is that, despite his venerability, we have no clear idea of where he stands on many domestic issues. From Wordnik.com. [It's Ming the Merciless] Reference
In funeral rites, venerability once provided solace (the community's traditions live on even as individuals die) as well as caution (your day will come too, buster). From Wordnik.com. [The New Death] Reference
"The Basement Tapes" are a kaleidoscope like nothing I know, complete and no more dated than the weather, but they seem to leap out of a kaleidoscope of American music no less immediate for its venerability. From Wordnik.com. [The Basement Tapes] Reference
The members of the local Left Bank Quartet may be too young to have attained the status of "venerable," but they've played together for a long time now, and their ensemble has a patina of venerability that adds a relaxed glow to everything they touch. From Wordnik.com. ['How Sweet the Sound' gospel competition; Calder Quartet; Left Bank Quartet] Reference
Ideally you should not connect to your database with a "root" account... if possible, you should create a user which can only INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE the data, and does not have permission to alter the databases structure i.e. limit the damage the account can do if compromised, or if an SQL injection venerability is found. From Wordnik.com. [login system] Reference
It all seems rather vague taking into consideration that the Murdoch and Cisneros/Granier power bases have taken decades while one has to question whether or not President Hugo Chavez is going to continue uniquely at the helm of Venezuela's destinies until he reaches equivalent venerability with former President Rafael Caldera. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing has changed since the days of Caesar and Brutus! Et tu!] Reference
Of course, venerability doesn't come merely with age. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Collegian RSS] Reference
As an oasis of venerability in a desert of hypocrisy?. From Wordnik.com. [House of Eratosthenes] Reference
I felt the old reading room of the British Library had so much gravitas and venerability. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
"But there's no denying that venerability grants a great deal of unanticipated suspense to the material.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Sometimes old folk-etymological association prevails, and its venerability lends an acceptance long after the process is forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4] Reference
He is lanky, ungainly and lantern-jawed, and seems like a man who has never been young, and who has not yet obtained the venerability of old age. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe]
The singer had gone grey, and that touch of venerability gave him an air of greater distinction, as a broken down tragedian, than he possessed when. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
Is it too far-fetched to suggest that these phrases, owing to their vitality and venerability, have contributed a non-Germanic pattern of word order to English?. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2] Reference
The ideal of bipartisanship is what historians call an invented tradition, a new thing that cloaks itself in venerability as a way of obscuring its lack of accomplishment. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference
Local admins add capabilities on the fly without seeing the bigger security picture Often, an SOD conflict is only discovered after the fact, after the venerability has been exploited. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Sun] Reference
And just consider: what would become of the sanctity of prayer, what of the venerability of the Brahmans 'caste, what of the holiness of the Samanas, if it was as you say, if there was no learning?!. From Wordnik.com. [Siddhartha] Reference
Germany's Documenta approximates the cachet of this venerable event, and appointment to the directorship is typically seen as a career-culminating honor reserved for men (and so far they've all been men) who've achieved a certain venerability of their own. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
(who has now turned ninety, as if his venerability were in need of chronological confirmation) one afternoon many years ago, as we sat with wines and theories on his back porch in Cambridge. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Rahul Mohindar told CNBC-TV18, "Mahindra Satyam moved up with a gap which gives it some room to correct and fill up so there could be this venerability that we head down to levels of Rs 100 but closer to Rs 100 there is good support. From Wordnik.com. [Moneycontrol Top Headlines] Reference
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