we venerate genius.
They venerated the same saints, worshipped in the same churches, and respected a past of shared values.

His words were specious but I doubt on the reality.
salubrious air at hyderabad.
his bombastic/grandiloquent manner/pompous style.
He became more than usually grandiloquent as if to make up for
 the years of silence with words of gold.
ameliorate -to make better,improve
cogent argument.
rascible responses.
quiescent mind.