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Example sentences for: irreverence

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He digs Van Morrison's music and Jack Nicholson's irreverence.
Tannen finds it particularly unseemly that reporters and independent counsels treat the nation's ultimate father figure with such irreverence.
It seems to me absurd to try and read an image like The Holy Virgin Mary 1996 in purely formal terms, because it would be to apply aesthetic criteria and art-historical comparisons to a work that draws its power primarily from iconoclasm and irreverence.
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).
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.