Essentialism, in venerating outdated ideas about gender roles (even as they claim to deny them) is a definitively conservative idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1985] Reference

So I completely understand venerating the Constitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Senator Byrd's Constitution.] Reference

In a madness-venerating time, Hopper was madder than most.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Dreamgirl] Reference

What other goodies come with feminine-venerating cultures?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dale Allen: God the Mother or Paleolithic Porn?] Reference

I hadn't been keen on venerating or honoring anyone or anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Simpson: Icons: Symbols of Sobriety in a Culture of Chaos] Reference

Hence the cult of venerating the bodies of the saints would make no sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binarium Famosissimum] Reference

People who had been venerating the bloodstained cloth turned with angry shouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

And we can never stop a few people here who are worshipping and venerating bin Laden.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2001] Reference

Provided only that we can find him, I will pass the rest of my life in venerating him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

That's why I get angry when I see movies or plays venerating leaders as quasi-Messiahs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: We Have Forgotten How Real Political Change Happens] Reference

More precisely, they are venerating the bodacious bovine byproduct as if it were pure gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helen Thomas and the Watchdogs of the Golden Bull] Reference

The MSM is still venerating the Convention Process, but that era has less than 12 hours to live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary To Campaign For Obama In Florida] Reference

It would help to be seen venerating your white mother and grandparents as well as your black father.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Memo to Senator Obama] Reference

He paid his venerating respects to the founders of the C.P.R., but he seemed to have more enthusiasm for Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

The Greek artist, appreciating and venerating the body, tries to raise it to a higher and more perfect level.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Temples venerating Siva and Parvati display stone images of a seated Nandi, generally facing the main shrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

Ah! for me to learn to believe in your “conscientiousness,” ye would first have to break your venerating will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference

You can well understand the significance of the Chinese custom of venerating the snake for his wisdom and goodwill.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Today] Reference

YOUNG: Italy has a long tradition of venerating mother and child but has been slow to adjust as the picture changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Population - January 2, 2000] Reference

Gardels: How do you define the "innocence" you are venerating in the museum, which figures in the title of your novel?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathan Gardels: A Talk With Orhan Pamuk: Caressing the World With Words] Reference

One of Aleksi's deputies, Metropolitan Yuvenali, said, "" If there is a mistake, we will be venerating false relics. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Rest For The Royals] Reference

Romney was rejected by his fellow Republicans, and if anyone is venerating Michelle Obama, I assure you it's not Republicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Michelle Obama and the Poison of National Review] Reference

In China, political life is truly all about the Communist Party -- venerating it, burnishing its image and politicking within it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2009] Reference

As you may be know, the shii muslims are venerating his excellency Fatima as the Lady of the women of the world peace be upon her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Islam and the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference

Both prisoner and guard stood wordlessly there for a minute or two venerating the cross until the guard rubbed it out and walked away.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Sen. John McCain Attacks Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Republican Establishment as Harming GOP Ideals - February 28, 2000] Reference

At least according to the Bookscan data they were venerating yesterday, those books make Crashing the Gate look like The DaVinci Code.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

War-ravaged, with similarly rudimentary education systems, both have a tradition of shrines venerating local saints where women can pray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference