How to Use worshipful in a Sentence

worshipful

adjective
  • She was greeted by thousands of worshipful fans.
  • Do all those cameos make the series feel authentic, or overly worshipful?
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024
  • The worshipful film commits just about every sin in the Big Book of Biopics.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This would be a worshipful obituary, were the subject not still, thankfully, very much with us.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 9 Nov. 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
  • Proud of the church but never worshipful, Kemble has made her unusual home warm and liveable.
    — House Beautiful, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The ensemble’s instinct was a kind of worshipful response, but zen-master Uchida would not have that.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • Aykroyd had grown up in Ottawa, the Canadian capital, a worshipful acolyte of rhythm and blues.
    — John Belushi, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In this painting and in its glory, the juke joint is worshipful, sweaty, intoxicating, and transcendent.
    — Korsha Wilson, Bon Appétit, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The secret in the biscuits is the pairing of cheddar with bacon, with the overall result being worshipful thanks from those who are lucky enough to partake.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Although the film is obviously fiction, the trailer alone draws plenty of comparisons to worshipful food docs.
    — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 15 Aug. 2022
  • On Friday night, Brooks was still extravagantly worshipful of the space.
    — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Her language is by turns worshipful and profane, her tone colloquial and confessional.
    — Kim Warp, The New Yorker, 5 June 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
  • 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
  • Bailey writes about Roth’s later years with a sensitivity that’s respectful but not worshipful.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Moon’s memoir is a self-portrait of an insecure and often confused child, worshipful of the absent father and thirsty for maternal affection.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • In a telling sample of his quotes collected for his obituary in The New York Times, Reed could be both worshipful and scathing.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 May 2026
  • Essentially worshipful in its view of Lee, the movie never acknowledges that one person drawing so much unbridled admiration is more than a little creepy.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 25 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Gradually, too, media coverage has evolved, from the near-worshipful stance of early profiles to the increasingly incisive commentary that marked her final years.
    — Alison Fishburn, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The first is that Scalia’s dissent was, well, written by Scalia, a conservative icon who many of the Court’s Republicans speak of in almost worshipful tones.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 June 2024
  • 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
  • That topic was debated at CinemaCon last week, where Cruise described his new venture Digger to a worshipful audience.
    — Peter Bart, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The societies most geared toward individual profit, and most worshipful of economic expansion, have proved least capable of saving themselves.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 18 Mar. 2021
  • 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

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