Example sentences for: obeisance

How can you use “obeisance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In an op-ed piece, FT columnist Philip Stephens wrote that those who fear Murdoch "should stop for a moment to savour the delicious irony of his latest obeisance before the Beijing gerontocracy."

  • numb people to Picasso's art, making obeisance routine, like genuflecting in church."

  • According to the New York Times , while some of its influential leaders are complaining about the lack of obeisance on the Hill, the Christian coalition is struggling to coalesce around a clear strategy and a single presidential candidate.

  • On the one hand, encouraged in part by the cultural ascendance of irony, and by recreational obeisance to the many-tiered nature of experience and truth, the noncitational or "literary" footnote has become increasingly prominent in recent years in journalism, criticism, and fiction.

  • Dworkin wishes to replace the moral teleology of law with obeisance to cultural prejudices, informing us that unjust acts may be countenanced when popular ideology asserts them to be "personal" and hence putatively free of legal restraint.


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