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

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

“Instead, the faithful are requested to genuflect or make a profound bow as they venerate the cross,” said Archbishop Romulo Valles, who heads the bishops’ conference.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2020

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

But “The Andromeda Evolution” genuflects appropriately to the 1969 novel that instantly infected pop culture.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019

During the Mass the priest frequently makes the Sign of the Cross, genuflects or bends the knee before the altar, strikes his breast, etc.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead

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

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2023

I almost genuflected in the doorway but restrained myself.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 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

As he is wont to do, Bill Shaikin once again genuflected at the Dodger altar and — cue the harp music — sang the praises of Chase Utley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2018

She genuflected before the altar, then knelt at the rail.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

“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

The figures, dubbed the “kneeling attendants” by curators, crouch as if genuflecting.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

At the Los Angeles Central Library, the Oaxacan collective Tlacolulokos painted a glorious mural depicting contemporary Indigenous Zapotec culture, supplanting the library’s mural from 1933, which showed Native Americans genuflecting to European colonialists.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2020

But it was more like genuflecting in her presence.

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