obeisance
Example Sentences
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His “gruff” father had little time for such infantilizing obeisance and would resist as best he could.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
But the demands for obeisance from everyone around him, foreign and domestic, aren't new.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2025
But positioning her as Ethan’s maybe-girlfriend — as if in obeisance to and at the same time defiance of some foundational rule of musical theater — undoes that work.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024
What I love, and the WGA building does this too, is how they pay a flash of obeisance to this idea on the surface while undermining it in their geometry.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2023
They took their hats off and made obeisance and many signs, which, however, I could not understand any more than I could their spoken language....
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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