How to Use worshipful in a Sentence

worshipful

adjective

• She was greeted by thousands of worshipful fans.
• The worshipful film commits just about every sin in the Big Book of Biopics.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Countless new books have appeared on the Queen and her reign, most of them reverent if not worshipful in tone.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
• From the mannequins to the lighting fixtures, there is a sense of worshipful elegance.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 July 2022
• Aykroyd had grown up in Ottawa, the Canadian capital, a worshipful acolyte of rhythm and blues.
  — John Belushi, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• Proud of the church but never worshipful, Kemble has made her unusual home warm and liveable.
  — House Beautiful, 8 Apr. 2021
• This would be a worshipful obituary, were the subject not still, thankfully, very much with us.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
• Caught in the right mood at Javi’s seaside estate, Cage responds favorably to the billionaire’s worshipful pitch.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
• Hardy's performance is as goofy as anything in the Joel Schumacher movies precisely because the movie's worshipful tone is so askew.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2022
• On Friday night, Brooks was still extravagantly worshipful of the space.
  — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• In this painting and in its glory, the juke joint is worshipful, sweaty, intoxicating, and transcendent.
  — Korsha Wilson, Bon Appétit, 11 Mar. 2024
• In this musical, Jesus is a near-silent cypher, swept along in the feverish mania of worshipful crowds who ultimately turn on their superstar.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2023
• Although the film is obviously fiction, the trailer alone draws plenty of comparisons to worshipful food docs.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 15 Aug. 2022
• Edwin could write funny or angry or wistful or worshipful.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2017
• If Balanchine abused his position, then why did seemingly all of his dancers express worshipful respect for him decades after his death?
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Still, the gathering felt surprisingly intimate, even worshipful, less like a conference and more like, well, church.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• But Lorenzo has a new modesty about him, and his clothing feels intimate in a way that Lauren’s, which is much more like a worshipful encyclopedia of American style, simply cannot.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Apr. 2022
• Accordingly, this anthology reads less like a worshipful or sententious exploration of the art of writing, and more like a highbrow scandal sheet — which, in the best way, Vanity Fair is.
  — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
• Like Gatsby, Holmes invented her celebrity and fortune out of virtually nothing: a smile, a wide and worshipful gaze, and genealogy.
  — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
• His gift for messaging has rankled some: even people who support Ukraine and its fight have criticized Zelensky’s celebrity appearances, or at least the public’s worshipful response to him.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 May 2022
• Bailey writes about Roth’s later years with a sensitivity that’s respectful but not worshipful.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2021
• There is Matthiessen’s attitude toward the Sherpas and the porters, which is sometimes open and humane but often ill-tempered, patronizing, or mystically worshipful.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• More than once her worshipful gaze landed upon The 510 Haute Cuisine, the gastronomic lodestar that served as a career launchpad for many influential chefs, some of whom continue to resonate with today’s diners.
  — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 28 Oct. 2020
• Baker’s account of Christy Mathewson, who, starting in 1900, pitched seventeen seasons for the Giants, is more worshipful—all the revisionists in the world can’t shake the legend of Mathewson as a captain of men and a gentleman of integrity.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Her language is by turns worshipful and profane, her tone colloquial and confessional.
  — Kim Warp, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• Freeman, meanwhile, would later gloat to colleagues that Bainum was never serious about buying the newspapers and just wanted to bask in the worshipful media coverage his bid generated.
  — Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2021
• That format — a small and worshipful group, a self-aggrandizing legend, and an insecure guinea pig selected for public exposure — is the perfect showcase of sadism and self-revelation.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2022
• But the movie’s attitude toward Bergman is beguilingly open-ended, aligning itself with neither the worshipful tributes nor the dismissive reappraisals that greeted his decades-long career.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Donald Trump’s truly bizarre Cabinet meeting — where each Cabinet member took turns around the table to offer worshipful praise to Trump in front of the media — will go down as one of the more awkwardly laughable moments in his administration.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• Dylan was the rare celebrity who downplayed the worshipful titles offered him — poet, visionary, and especially spokesman for a generation.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 May 2021

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024