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

In fact, it was often hard to see what the function of management was, other than to exact obeisance.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich