He was irreverential in the presence of his parents. From LearnThat.org.
Despite its length, it does speed along through the years at a nifty pace, in a colorful, effortless romp of language that combines the musician's idiom with a kind of cocky, irreverential Brit-talk that you hear in a Monty Python episode. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Clothier: Keef] Reference
Have you noticed what a disruptive and irreverential brood they are?. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
Yet how is it possible to say an unkind or irreverential word of Rome?. From Wordnik.com. [The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference
His babblings are not more crude and irreverential than much that passes for profound thinking. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference
To say the truth, I look upon it as such a masterpiece in its way, that it seems irreverential to eat it. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
I found Butcher's attitudes about art and the art community fairly realistic perhaps because i was once married to an artist with similar irreverential attitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Asylum] Reference
Bierce became a journalist there, and within a few years, he was labeled "the most irreverential person on the Pacific Coast," and "the wickedest man in San Francisco.". From Wordnik.com. [APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed] Reference
John Wilson was one of the most interesting figures of a time when learning was at a premium; he was a big man amongst big men, and even in this irreverential time genius uncovers at the mention of his name. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac] Reference
And in order to do homage to truth, he had committed the fault of saying a host of irreverential truths concerning that country, and also many individuals belonging to it; consequently he had made many enemies for himself. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference
Fans of the first movie should have a serious geek-gasm over some of what's shown here and everyone else will at least get a thrill at seeing that the irreverential, character-stocked feeling of the original seems to be fully on display here. From Wordnik.com. [Empire News] Reference
This burial-ground is in the same state as that of Messina, once the pride of its citizens; the insane frolic of nature has not respected the slumber of the dead or their commemorative shrines; it has made a mockery of the place, twisting the solemn monuments into repulsive and irreverential shapes. From Wordnik.com. [Old Calabria] Reference
The preliminary devotional exercises -- a Scripture reading, singing, and painfully irreverential and meaningless harangues nominally addressed to the Deity, but really to the audience -- being concluded, the sermon was commenced by reading a text, with which, however, it had, so far as I could discover, no further association. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference
The gossoon was much offended by the laughter that followed his account of the altar-piece, which he had no intention of making irreverential, and suddenly became silent, with a muttered "More shame for yiz;" and as his bootjack was impracticable, he was sent off with orders for the chamber - maid to supply bed candles immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life] Reference
They were also ordered to appoint certain spies who should keep watch at every administration of the sacraments, whether public or private, whether at the altar or at death-beds, and who should report for exemplary punishment (that is to say, death by fire) all persons who made derisive or irreverential gestures, or who did not pay suitable honor to the said. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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