A bend of the body and a genuflection were the appropriate answer of the Ethiopian to these observations. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
Was it an upperclass gesture, like a genuflection?. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
The old woman bobbed up, making an old-time genuflection. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
Queen Elizabeth, who made a ritual genuflection to him in her. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The Pilgrim acknowledged her claim to it by a low genuflection. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
Now, genuflection before Brian Wilson can be a boring prospect. From Wordnik.com. [She's tearing apart my world (Music (For Robots))] Reference
It was the government's second genuflection within a few months. From Wordnik.com. [War Against Switzerland] Reference
There was a general cowering, an unintended genuflection before her. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
Director of the FBI, went to one knee in a low and solemn genuflection. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Twister] Reference
"And I, yours, " Keisha replied, with a little genuflection of her own. From Wordnik.com. [Owlsight]
She is accustomed to genuflection and he can't bend a knee -- for long. From Wordnik.com. [Kitty Kelley: What's Behind the Oprah/Letterman Feud?] Reference
The High Priestess rose from her genuflection and Forrester followed suit. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Something very unhappy about the bent genuflection to the masters of the school. From Wordnik.com. [WSJIDEBATE: America's détente with the Muslim World] Reference
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then wholesale theft is genuflection. From Wordnik.com. [Danke Schoen, Mr. Las Vegas] Reference
Giving up one Trident submarine is a particularly fatuous (and self-serving) genuflection. From Wordnik.com. [Nuclear thinking] Reference
Reductions aren't good enough, if they are not accompanied by genuflection to the alter of Gai. From Wordnik.com. [Why don't environmentalists celebrate the economic slump as the big cutback in consumption that they always wanted?] Reference
If this was not the routine genuflection at the altar of victimology, it is in the same category. From Wordnik.com. [May 29th, 2009] Reference
The War on Iraq is nothing but a genuflection to the Military Industrial Complex and an oil grab. From Wordnik.com. [Sunnis quit Iraq government] Reference
Halting, the baron knelt with a genuflection that was screened by his body and invisible to Conan. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
Whereupon the pony went down on its knees in the sawdust in a genuflection to the man with the whip. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XXV] Reference
It evokes Science, which is assumed to be larger than life: the expected response is awe and genuflection. From Wordnik.com. [June « 2006 « Bill Ayers] Reference
He vaulted into the sanctuary, stumbled over the first step, called it a genuflection, and went to the altar. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
Eurocrats and europols rarely let a speech go by these days without a genuflection toward the almighty shopper. From Wordnik.com. ['Free to Choose'] Reference
The Rev greeted me with a genuflection (always the diplomatic prince), and told me what he thought of my writing. From Wordnik.com. [Receiving the Message] Reference
She may lack the obscene wealth that also triggers our reflexive genuflection, but she will acquire that in time. From Wordnik.com. [Death Becomes Her: Let's Make Her Our President] Reference
No, neither Bowman nor anyone else is arguing that traditional acts of worship (like genuflection) are in evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Channeling Religious Impulses] Reference
They passed two adults, and three pairs of ears dipped and bobbed in simultaneous genuflection as a sign of respect. From Wordnik.com. [Quozl]
It was Father Ricardo, and as he made the genuflection, it was seen that his face was irradiated by profound emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Rows of cats in swank traveling "kitty condos" peered out impassively at the shameless genuflection of their devotees. From Wordnik.com. [Where Cool Cats Congregate] Reference
Woody Goes To Hollywood For grown-up laughs, a moment of genuflection, please, for the continuing brilliance of Woody Allen. From Wordnik.com. [Part-Spider, Part-Snore!] Reference
Suddenly their vote was more serious than a genuflection toward the pro-reform editorial writers in their hometown newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's America Is Working] Reference
Malone watched with wide, astonished eyes as Andrew J. Burris, Director of the FBI, went to one knee in a low and solemn genuflection. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
Murray refuses head startAndy Murray breezed into the second round and a date for genuflection with the Queen on Centre Court tomorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Wimbledon 2010 Diary: No plans to make a night of it at SW19] Reference
For these guys, not unlike the seriously religious, books have a totemic, magical quality that demands at least a symbolic genuflection. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hartman: The Gangs Of Readers In Prison] Reference
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