Sentences with phrase «obeisances before»

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.

Barth states: «Genuine faith is a void, an obeisance before that which we can never be, or do, or possess; it is devotion to him who can never become the world or man, save in the dissolution and redemption and resurrection of everything we here and now call world and man.

Not exact matches

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.

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