obeisant

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I’m less convinced by your argument for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which to me felt too obeisant to Scorsese’s usual A-team.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024

But with Vladimir Putin he turns into a bashful schoolboy, fawning and obeisant.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2018

"Ease and health, obeisant children, wisdom, and a fair-voiced wife— Thus, great King! are counted up the five felicities of life."

From Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. by Arnold, Edwin, Sir

She imports patterns, and they become the mode; her caterer invents dishes, and they are copied throughout the obeisant world.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various

Behind him bears and lions, tame As those who know their feeder, came, And tigers, deer, and snakes pursued His steps, a wondrous multitude, And turned obeisant when the sage Had reached his shady hermitage.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)