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a reverent crowd of worshippers
a reverent tone of voice
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His surviving works — just over 30 in all — form a kind of visual music or poetry: reverent, revelatory.
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Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 2 July 2025
Elena holds her headstrong, intellectually gifted friend Lila in reverent admiration, but the girls’ paths diverge when Lila, who cannot afford to continue her education, marries an abusive man, while Elena goes to university and becomes a writer.
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West's playing here is precise, reverent, never indulgent.
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Craig is self-reflective while being appropriately reverent to the tropes of the genre.
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Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 2 July 2025
Elena holds her headstrong, intellectually gifted friend Lila in reverent admiration, but the girls’ paths diverge when Lila, who cannot afford to continue her education, marries an abusive man, while Elena goes to university and becomes a writer.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
West's playing here is precise, reverent, never indulgent.
—Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
Craig is self-reflective while being appropriately reverent to the tropes of the genre.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 9 May 2025
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“Reverent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverent. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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reverent
adjective
rev·er·ent
ˈrev-(ə-)rənt 
ˈrev-ərnt
: very respectful : showing reverence
reverently
adverb
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