The practice involves preparing the "pah kwan" or the flower trays and placing at a central location for people to gather around it in reverential prayers.
The painting departed from convention of the time by depicting a scientific subject in the reverential manner formerly reserved for scenes of historical or religious significance.
The noble-hearted young lad once approached the renunciate, who was a reverential figure in that locality, and put questions to him about the path to attainment of greatness.
Her human figure, careening through its volatile relations, charge card in hand, indebted and reverential, makes of shatter a kind of atomized coherence, a kinetic, compassionate form.
Critical to the point of confrontational, it abandoned the orthodox reverential rules of engagement with politicians and took a tougher, more modern approach to interviews.