Sentences with word «obeisance»

Religion is nothing but a tool for the unscrupulous to gain control of the masses» free will, free time, and disposable income, all in obeisance to something that does not exist.

In contrast to the greeting the President accorded to the King of Saudi Arabia in April, where spooked White House officials dismissed what looked like a full gesture of obeisance as a mere exercise in height adjustment, this time there was no ambiguity.

What would be the purpose of not claiming such a ti.tle in one's «human» lifetime but demanding obeisance with grave punishments if one does not believe it to be true once he dies?

Small altars at either end of the megalithic pavement beside the burial pit may have been used for preliminary sacrifices and obeisances before the priest and the assembled mourning community ventured down into the foul, reeking caves of the dead.

This, plus the dramatic improvements they have achieved in pollution control, teaches another lesson: it is possible to have a reasonable policy of environment protection without making obeisance to the «environmentalism» of the Green Dragon.

The hysterical ranting, blind obeisance to the party line, and self - adulation are an attempt to mock the stereotype of the empty vitriol of the current conservative leadership.

Hargrave's solo exhibition Obeisance / Derision is a balancing act.

His attempts at diplomacy range from blundering aggression towards China to cringeworthy obeisance towards Vladimir Putin.

Empirical studies often refer to it almost in ceremonial obeisance while failing to incorporate it into the research design in any meaningful way.

We pay obeisance on the surface to laws we disregard in secret.

In recent years, however, there has arisen a kind of mystical attraction to the principle of free speech, an awe and obeisance which society normally reserves for its objects of worship.

One need not necessarily join Salinger's Holden Caulfield in the Roxy gallery, watch the Rockettes make their peculiar obeisance to the Incarnation in a tinselled Christmas routine, and hear the lad remark, lonely and honest amidst the gurgling delight of the audience, «Good ol' Jesus would a» puked!»

Further, his own personal neurosis about authority figures gave him both a strong tendency towards exaggerated obeisance, and in practice a compensating attitude of detachment and freedom.

Hamed's self - absorption and demand for obeisance can exasperate even Ingle.

... It was almost as though football itself were taunting England for its lack of tactical sophistication and its concomitant obeisance to the cult of the celebrity player.

But anyone familiar with labor's methods — and lawmakers» reflexive obeisance to union bosses — won't be expecting much.

Nevertheless, this is the only reasonably complete popular account: anyone visiting the park or wanting an armchair trip there will need it to make due obeisance to the beasties and their creators.

In the background, too, is our knee - jerk obeisance to «local control of education,» whatever that may mean in 2011.

But data shouldn't elicit automatic obeisance from right - thinking educators.

To pay public obeisance to the Expert Panel's recommendations before obtaining definitive union agreement is a pathetic negotiating tactic.

The film follows a drifter (Roddy Piper) who finds a stash of glasses that reveal the world as it actually is — one ruled by a race of aliens who maintain control through ubiquitous subliminal messages commanding obeisance, consumption, and conformity.

Yet in cowardly obeisance to the political correctness of the day, the sacred cow of population control is left untouched.

However, I question the apparent obeisance to the library management tools which reduce anything, which hasn't been out in six months / a year, to book sale fodder.

This kind of obeisance is at the heart of the «Abilene Paradox,» a case study used to encourage people to speak up.

They are artists who are making a living from their art on their own terms, without being told what to do by rich dealers who demand obeisance.

If there's one rite of passage that every American politician must pass through it's doing obeisance to the Jews at the Wailing Wall.

Today, A Woman's Life exemplifies the festival - hopping, Euro - pudding 21st - century equivalent, defined by a blind obeisance to its own template of stylistic choices — one generation's liberated cinema now degraded to a stereotyped, pre-chewed naturalism.

Stephanie Hargrave at Shift Gallery through Sunday, Feb. 25 2018 Hargrave's solo exhibition Obeisance / Derision is a balancing act.

Chewing scenery with her mouth open, Meryl Streep is Violet, the gargoyle matriarch of an Oklahoma dynasty, hooked on pills because of mouth cancer and, let's face it, in obeisance to a certain theatrical tradition.

Politicians paid obeisance to the bishops and to Rome.

The prize — beyond the obeisance of all and sundry before the crowned Doritos Guru — was $ 25,000, the thrill of seeing your ad on national television and 1 % of the future net sales of the product.

Apart from your obeisance to PK, your post illustrates how outsiders lose perspective when they become insiders.

When I try to bow to thee, my obeisance can not reach down to the depth where thy feet rest among the poorest, the lowest and the lost.

While Russell Hittinger's piece is an informative outline on the historical sequence of papal documents on modernism and well points out that the Catholic Church's obeisance to king or nation is not the ideal (and hence not traditional).