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Despite its length, it does speed along through the years at a nifty pace, in a colorful, effortless romp of language that combines the musician's idiom with a kind of cocky, irreverential Brit-talk that you hear in a Monty Python episode.

Peter Clothier: Keef Peter Clothier 2011

Despite its length, it does speed along through the years at a nifty pace, in a colorful, effortless romp of language that combines the musician's idiom with a kind of cocky, irreverential Brit-talk that you hear in a Monty Python episode.

Peter Clothier: Keef Peter Clothier 2011

Despite its length, it does speed along through the years at a nifty pace, in a colorful, effortless romp of language that combines the musician's idiom with a kind of cocky, irreverential Brit-talk that you hear in a Monty Python episode.

Peter Clothier: Keef Peter Clothier 2011

The holy rites of hospitality are by you abused and set at naught; and the very roof which shelters you is desecrated with the marks of your irreverential contempt for all things human and divine.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 Various

As his object was exclusively the salvation of souls, Bourdaloue adapted himself to the audience which, in spite of its worldliness, frivolity, and vice, proved itself, and with reason, on its power of appreciating what was intellectual and scholarly, and though scandalously irreverential in the very temple of God, had an insatiable craving for religious discourses.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

This burial-ground is in the same state as that of Messina, once the pride of its citizens; the insane frolic of nature has not respected the slumber of the dead or their commemorative shrines; it has made a mockery of the place, twisting the solemn monuments into repulsive and irreverential shapes.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Have you noticed what a disruptive and irreverential brood they are?

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

John Wilson was one of the most interesting figures of a time when learning was at a premium; he was a big man amongst big men, and even in this irreverential time genius uncovers at the mention of his name.

The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac 1896

His babblings are not more crude and irreverential than much that passes for profound thinking.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

John Wilson was one of the most interesting figures of a time when learning was at a premium; he was a big man amongst big men, and even in this irreverential time genius uncovers at the mention of his name.

The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac Eugene Field 1872