Sentences with phrase «paid obeisance»

Politicians paid obeisance to the bishops and to Rome.

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.

While seeming to cite religious arguments and to pay obeisance to traditional terms, Locke actually reduced religion to subordinate status.

He said at the rate Makarfi and his people were going, «anyone who wants to become anything in the PDP would have to first go and pay obeisance to a demi - god in Rivers State and his orchestra special assistant from Afao - Ekiti, Ekiti State.»

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.

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.

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Political speeches, now as in the past, pay ritual obeisance to the divine judge.

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).

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

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