genuflection

Example Sentences

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What’s the point of these obvious genuflections to Samuel R. Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin, two of the most admired science fiction writers of our time?

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022

These references aren’t just fanboy genuflections; they extend a riveting contentious debate about what it means to be stylized and dissident as queer.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2018

The price of being considered included several public genuflections by Romney, one at an upscale New York restaurant where a photographer captured him looking wan and Trump gleeful.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2018

But such genuflections by management seldom work out in the long run, at least with players of questionable leadership skills.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2012

The priest had gone, and the little congregation, with last genuflections, were hurrying out of the church.

From The Halo by Justice, B. Martin