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
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
Pay close attention to appreciate the artful genuflection to classics like “Excalibur.”
From Salon ● May 21, 2021
The first is their worship of wealth, their devout genuflection before it as the sole choicest gift which fate can bestow, and the second is their merciless and metallic snobbery.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
