genuflect

Shows like “Top Chef” teach us to genuflect at the altars of celebrity culinarians, viewing their restaurants and signature dishes as luxury experiences as opposed to showing regular folks how to think innovatively about dinner.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

“Let’s use this moment, not to just genuflect toward the cause of good and right, let’s really do something,” he said “We know Shawnee children died at that mission. We want those kids’ names.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

It appeared in one of the thousands of recently released emails in which Dr. Fauci asserts in part: “I genuflect to no one but science.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2021

Candidates now publicly genuflect before him, as Beto O’Rourke did when the former Texas congressman took the stage soon after the conference got underway Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2019

If I do it just right, the crowd gasps aloud — they genuflect, weep, stretch their hands out, and touch.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

Mapplethorpe genuflects at the altar of that icon with a platinum portrait of Warhol, backed by a halo of light and surrounded by silk panels that form a cross.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Without anything divine to revere, American home and landscape design largely genuflects at the altar of the market.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025

The woman who holds the head genuflects with her soaking parcel.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020

Father O’Malley comes from the sacristy, genuflects before the altar, and stops to stare with his single good eye, blurry as it is, at what looks to be a woman levitating.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018

According to Baldeschi, the veil is removed from the celebrant when he genuflects in the predella, after having given the benediction.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various

He hired people because they genuflected to him, not because they had any expertise.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2023

“Everybody sort of genuflected to Hazel because she was this little dynamo,” said David Peterson, a former Liberal premier of Ontario between 1985 and 1990.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

I don’t recall whether we rose and genuflected upon the arrival of Big John, but doing so would’ve been appropriate.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2020

“The delivery guy genuflected and backed away slowly, never turned his back on the grave.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2018

We flat out refused, but Mom went up in front of the mourners, genuflected with a grand sweep, and then kissed Erma’s cheek so vigorously that you could hear the puckering sound throughout the chapel.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

“The fighters genuflecting before him, the commentators dapping him up, talking about how great it is that he’s here.”

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026

He prefers the illusion of power offered by genuflecting yes-men over the hard work involved in gaining real power and exercising it.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2024

For all of underground music’s genuflecting to progressive values, Zulu asks for a lot of self-reflection from its audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

Over decades of presidential campaigns, the Iowa way has been to hop from town to town, taking questions from all comers and genuflecting to the local culinary traditions.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

But it was more like genuflecting in her presence.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez