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  • As a result, while actual American soldiers were sent halfway across the planet in a distinctly unreverential way on their third, fourth, and fifth tours of duty (with few here giving much of a damn), Americans treated the idea of those "warriors" and their "mission" with ritualistic fervor.

    Tom Engelhardt: A Falcon of Peace 2009

  • He prided himself on a most unreverential spirit, but his instant, most unfamiliar emotion was one of reverence.

    The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel 1898

  • An excellent young cast including Hal Cazalet, Amy Freston and Grant Doyle will be conducted by light-music specialist John Wilson, and the staging will take a fresh and unreverential approach, in the hope of scoring a hit to match Joseph Papp's uproariously rocked-up Pirates of Penzance and Jonathan Miller's Wodehousian version of The Mikado.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • As a result, while actual American soldiers were sent halfway across the planet in a distinctly unreverential way on their third, fourth, and fifth tours of duty (with few here giving much of a damn), Americans treated the idea of those "warriors" and their "mission" with ritualistic fervor.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • As a result, while actual American soldiers were sent halfway across the planet in a distinctly unreverential way on their third, fourth, and fifth tours of duty (with few here giving much of a damn), Americans treated the idea of those "warriors" and their "mission" with ritualistic fervor.

    MoJo Blogs and Articles 2009

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