genuflection
Example Sentences
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He saw the tribal genuflection as “an empty, performative act” that implied “UW’s presence is somehow illegitimate, shameful, morally wrong.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
Or is something else happening; is the press manifesting an unadmitted genuflection to raw power, exercised arbitrarily, out of calculated self-preservation?
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024
At earlier hearings, university presidents opted for strategies of conciliatory genuflection or drab, lawyerly answers.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
But Adam didn’t do rhyme and meter, for one thing — too much like mandatory genuflection in church, he once remarked.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
So much Percy saw as he performed the first genuflection.
From Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
