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

“Let’s use this moment, not to just genuflect toward the cause of good and right, let’s really do something,” he said “We know Shawnee children died at that mission. We want those kids’ names.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

“Every time I pass one,” he said, “I genuflect and say, ‘Thank you for the house, my kids’ education and the fact that we don’t have to eat cheese grits anymore.’

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2021

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

I remained silent and remembered to genuflect exactly on cue.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

Father O’Malley comes from the sacristy, genuflects before the altar, and stops to stare with his single good eye, blurry as it is, at what looks to be a woman levitating.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018

On arrival, Pope Francis is unlikely to follow his predecessor in kissing the tarmac at Dublin airport; at 81, he has one lung and weakness in his knees means he no longer genuflects.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2018

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

Former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers genuflected: “I bow at your feet.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022

“The delivery guy genuflected and backed away slowly, never turned his back on the grave.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2018

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

The line moved past the water fonts where we wet our fingers and genuflected as we made the sign of the cross.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

For all of underground music’s genuflecting to progressive values, Zulu asks for a lot of self-reflection from its audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

The court did not fall all over itself genuflecting to the supposedly superior expertise of school administrators to make disciplinary decisions without judicial second-guessing.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 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