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
Johnson and McConnell both paid obeisance to the notion that “we should not default on our debt under any circumstances,” as Johnson’s pledge states.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2021
I still may bring to memory the smell of the varnish, my face smothered against the desk, my hands stretched before me in a gesture of offering and obeisance.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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