How to Use obeisance in a Sentence

obeisance

noun

• At the curtain call, the biped company patted the earth in obeisance.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• The Ultimo pays surprisingly subtle obeisance to the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars.
  — Horacio Silva, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2017
• China wants nothing less than to restore itself as the Middle Kingdom, owed the respect and obeisance of the rest of the world.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022
• The Fed’s policy obeisance to the Phillips curve flattened our economy a decade ago.
  — WSJ, 31 May 2018
• But that skepticism faded and was replaced by a sort of obeisance.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 31 Dec. 2019
• The United States is flooded with guns, a reflection both of its cowboy mythos and its obeisance to profit.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 16 Feb. 2018
• Fox News is paying the price for its obeisance to former president Donald Trump.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• And beneath the obeisance to the Beltway rules about what addresses to joint sessions of Congress are supposed to look like lurked Trump Classic.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
• The dead being beyond our reach, our debt can only be expressed to one another; but our gratitude is also a form of obeisance — yes, to the dead.
  — William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 26 Nov. 2020
• Schubert is going to rely on her record rather than Trump obeisance to win over Republicans.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2021
• In Hong Kong this week, local business leaders have been falling all over themselves to affirm obeisance to Beijing.
  — Fortune, 24 Aug. 2019
• But his priority is that GOP candidates show obeisance to his claims that he was robbed in November.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• Bowing down is a symbol of obeisance, and Americans do not bend our knees for our own leaders, much less for foreign potentates.
  — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2023
• Over the course of four years, this can become a subtle but real habit of obeisance, a condition of moral and spiritual surrender.
  — R.r. Reno, WSJ, 7 June 2021
• Some also use helicopter services to pay quick obeisance.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• But if the cost of that support is an expectation for partisan obeisance, then how much are those policies really worth?
  — Eli Lake, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
• Amid candidates who pay obeisance to all the leftist pieties—with occasional exceptions from Mr. Adams—Mr.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche tracks two types of youth: a youth of saying yes to everything around you, of obeisance and placation, and a youth of saying no to everything, of refusal and rebellion.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2022
• As for the actions of states and countries, Cox was merely paying obeisance to the same ignorant, culture-warrior behavior of his fellow Republicans.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Even those bigwigs paid obeisance to someone and, eventually, by the transitive property of Saudi deference, to the king himself.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• The tight circle of poets and musicians and noblemen paying her obeisance was portrayed by her enemies as a ring of romantic assignations.
  — Tina Brown, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• In Oklahoma, Pruitt’s obeisance to the energy industry was sometimes startling.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
• One running theme of the series is the guests’ vocal eagerness to humble themselves before Beyoncé and her empire; DJ Khaled tells an anecdote that doubles as an ace performance of cozy obeisance.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2019
• Its pages are filled with pictures of generals shaking hands with foreign dignitaries, attending meetings and making obeisance to Buddhist monks.
  — The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021
• The Seventies looker closely follows the trim direction of its modern commemorative sibling and its obeisance to the atelier’s premiere watch.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2022
• Police returned fire in both incidents and the gunmen responded, with bullets striking a bus carrying 60 Hindus returning from paying obeisance at the shrine.
  — Aijaz Hussain, The Seattle Times, 11 July 2017
• Others, like Husserl and Heidegger, demanded obeisance.
  — Edward Mendelson, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2016
• Gorsuch portrayed himself as a kind of judicial automaton, obligated to pay mindless obeisance to the Court’s prior rulings.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
• In obeisance to the etiquette of destruction observed in films featuring the legendarily overgrown lizard, Fuji’s summit is treated as a national treasure to which the alpha-predator is denied access.
  — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• In obeisance to the etiquette of destruction observed in films featuring the legendarily overgrown lizard, Fuji’s summit is treated as a national treasure to which the alpha-predator is denied access.
  — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017

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