Day 1,213: revere and revile

Do people revere Mr Xi and revile foreign critics?

Artwork of the day 
Reverie
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date: 1868
Style: Romanticism
Genre: genre painting
Media: chalk, paper
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Dimensions: 84 x 71 cm

Word of the day 
revere: to very much respect and admire someone or something
revile: to criticize someone strongly, or say unpleasant things to or about someone

Quote of the day
“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson