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Example sentences for: obeisance

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"What is that but an obeisance to the shadow of the God who ran off, the God they drove off when bold and young and frightened of nothing!"
Amass weapons, subjugate the populace into obeisance with weapons, and when somebody comes along and blows up his weapons, well, one just has to keep one's chin up, look on the bright side, and start over again from the top.
with her country's drastically changed landscape" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Tired harangues about capital punishment and gun control are said to come at the expense of developing her characters, who "don't behave like humans" (Carolyn See, the Washington Post ). Others pay the customary obeisance to Gordimer's nuanced depiction of morally confused white liberals, in this case an older couple whose son is accused of murder.
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.
This is where Shinto priests in white robes with black belts and black lacquered clogs stand to bless worshippers as they make a silent obeisance.