obeisant

Example Sentences

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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

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)

The scene witnessed by the priests obeisant to the cruel judge was horrifying in the extreme.

From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Worcester, Dean C.

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