Sentences with phrase «of obeisance»

It is refreshing for me to see in the two «Lüdecke et al» papers none of the obeisance toward alarming AGW by CO2 from fossil fuels.

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

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.

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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.

But I would contend that obeisance to etiquette, far from being a weak and optional virtue, much less a sin, is the oldest social virtue, and an indispensable partner of morality.

You are associating «worship» with your own notion perhaps of «paying obeisance in a fetal position» or some such thing... but as the Bible affirms... worship is where our heart is.

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.

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?

All he seems to be able to bring forth, however, is more fanaticism, the clash of absolute with absolute, of ideology with ideology, always attaching what is left of the religious instinct to his creations and demanding obeisance.

As a Roman client king and faithful citizen of the Empire, Herod would have been required to pledge obeisance to the Roman gods.

I knew that, in turn, I would not be experiencing this bliss if it had not been for the wonders of electricity; obeisance then to its discoverers, yes, and to the electricians, the technicians, the music publishers, the record publishers, the record producers, the instrument makers and cabinet makers, the storekeepers, the delivery men, yes to all those myriad men and women whose seemingly un-coordinated efforts, which in themselves were the product of millennia of past strivings, had unwittingly, conspired to bring me, yes me, paradoxically as it must seem, a few fleeting moments of timeless bliss.

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!»

While it is impossible to reconcile Monod's materialist mechanism with any coherent doctrine of human freedom, his obeisance to the hypostatized idea of Chance displays an underlying concern for a universe in which human freedom would remain a possibility: «The kingdom above or the darkness below... it is for us to choose.

Although the Puritans were content to live as part of the British empire and gave genuine obeisance both to Parliament and Crown, there remained an ambiguity and a paradoxical relation between these two central symbols of English society and their function in the center of New England society.

Luther, in his normal Augustinian habit, tonsure recently shaven, thick - set, a little gaunt for his thirty - seven years, made obeisance to the Emperor and the Emperor's representative, the Archbishop of Trier.

Praasha Desire Praatika Image / Symbolic Pracheeta Origin / Starting point Pradyuta To begin to shine Pragnika Clever lady Praharsha Happy girl Prahasini Continues smiling girl Prajisha Morning Pramik Best / Fulfilling desires Pranal God Pranamya Offering obeisances Pranani Most beautiful Pranavee Goddess Parvati / The first sound of universe Aum (Alternate Spelling: Pranavi) Pranaya Leader Pranidhi Spy Pranika Goddess Parvati Pranisha Love to life Pranja Very cute Pranusha Prathama Usha — first rays of the morning Sun Pranvi Forgiveness / Goddess of life / Maa Parvati Pranvuta Praised Prasheila Ancient time Prashi Accomplishment / Fame Prashvita Parvati / Lord Shivas wife Prathulya Incomparable Prathusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prathysha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prathyumna Victory Prathyusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prati One who appreciates and loves music Pratichi West Pratika Image / Beautiful / Symbol / Symbolic Pratitha Well known Prattusha Beautiful / soft Prattysha Morning Pratusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Pratushya Morning Pratyaksha One who is real Pratyaya Perception / Thought / Intention Pratyusha Bright morning Pravara Eminent Prayukta Experimented Prayushi Pure Prayuta Mingled with Saadhvi Religious women / Courteous / Polite Saahana Raga Saarya Name of a pious woman Saatvika Goddess Durga / Calm (Alternate Spelling: Saatwika) Saavi Goddess Lakshmi / The Sun Saavini Pertaining to the month of Saavan / One who prepares Soma Sabrang Rainbow Sachita Consciousness Sadhvi Religious women / Courteous / Polite Saesha With great desire and wish / Truth of life Sagnika Fiery / Passionate / Married / With fire Sahuri War / Powerful / Victorious / The earth Sahya A mountain in india Saisha With great desire and wish / Truth of life (Alternate Spelling: Saiyeisha) Saketa Lord Krishna (Alternate Spelling: Saketha) Samanvi One who has all the best qualities Sambhwi Durga Samiha Generous Samika Peaceful Samiksha Analysis Samita Collected Samithra Good friend Sanchana Gathering of good habits Sanchaya Collection Sanha Skilful / Radiance / Elegance / Conciseness Sanheeta A compilation or a bunch of vedic hymns / Code (Alternate Spelling: Sanhitha) Sanmaya Equal / Removal of obstacles / Etc Sanmita Goddess Parvati / Prasanna Lakshmi Sanoja Eternal Sanrakta Red / Pleasant / Beautiful Sanwari Dusky Sanya Eminent / Distinguished / Born on saturday Sarasvi Water / Saraswathi Goddess Sarayu A holy river Sarisha Charming Sarit River Sarjena Creative Sarunati Nobleminded Sarvani Durga / Universal / Complete Sarvari Night

He also said Nigeria needed three basic things he listed as justice, obeisance to the rule of law and accountability to move forward.

Mr Daudu's view implies that once the Supreme Court has delivered a decision, all are bound not merely to accept it as constituting an authoritative statement of the law of the land, but also immediately to accord it intellectual obeisance, and to undertake not to dissent publicly from that decision no matter how implausible or even improper it may seem.

They controlled the flow of anti-poverty funds, public land, and patronage; demanded obeisance; and stomped on any saplings of rivalry.

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.

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.

When a person greets another with the feeling that «I am paying obeisance to the soul in the other» then a ring of spiritual emotion is created within him.

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.

If there's another indie demiurge to which Michôd pays obeisance, it's Michael Mann — and the success of the picture (as shrine to masculinity, as introspective character study) suggests that cribbing from Kitano and Mann, if it's as successful a larceny as this, can be successful in no other way.

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.

In Pan, when we're introduced to the pirate Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman), a Fury Road's collection of orphan miners sing - chants «Smells Like Teen Spirit» in obeisance to their monstrous overlord.

He patronizes Michael Powell and Humphrey Jennings (accorded one measly clip each); fails to mention Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, or Richard Lester (presumably regarding all three as American interlopers); reduces Ken Russell and Mike Leigh to the worst single clips imaginable (and has nothing to say about the TV work of either); limits John Boorman, Bill Douglas, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Isaac Julien, and Sally Potter to one fleeting movie poster apiece; and omits virtually the entire English documentary movement (though he includes a disparaging nod to Night Mail), along with the cycle of Hammer horror movies — while paying abject obeisance to the Academy Awards and every crumb they've offered British cinema (special points to Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, and Four Weddings and a Funeral).

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

He shows his usual obeisance to the idea of making public education a market rather than a public trust, to blaming rather than respecting educators, and to ideas that have failed to help children everywhere they've been tried but instead, in their wake, have hurt kids by leaving public schools destabilized and their budgets drained.»

Which inevitably invokes a much deeper fear, of the same intangibility inherent in our fiat currencies, our fiscal obeisance to governments who seem dead - set on printing & spending their way into oblivion, the fragility of our financial assets & markets (which now exist only as electronic blips on hackable centralised repositories), and our economic future & security itself.

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

Verdict There is no doubt that the iPhone 6 is worth the obeisance most of the world is paying it at the moment.