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Example sentences for: irreverence

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He digs Van Morrison's music and Jack Nicholson's irreverence.
Pop-art icon Roy Lichtenstein died . Obituaries generally celebrated him for countering texture and esoteric expression with irreverence and ironic wit, and for being an all-around nice guy.
They may occasionally ponder the appropriate place of religion in public life, but they rarely, if ever, express any irreverence toward established religions (although they feel free to mock New Age).
Rather than showing real concern for the impact of camera-toting hordes or knee-jerk irreverence, I think the books are dispensing garden-variety flattery, making you feel superior to the next guy on the museum ticket line.
During the time that I was working as a bartender (1977-1984), the new drinks that became popular almost invariably contained references in their names to images from the following categories: 1) pleasant taste; 2) destruction or self-destruction; 3) irreverence; 4) sexual innuendo.