Sentence examples for In obeisance from inspiring English sources

In obeisance, Bourdain has arranged that there won't be a single green anything on the table tonight except a small ramekin of cornichons, nor anything that's ever lived in water.

He didn't engage in obeisance to them.

Contrary to prevailing opinion, I didn't grow a beard in obeisance to fashion.

He has since devoted two special sessions to it in obeisance to Mr. DeLay's shameless bidding.

They cut themselves, and burned themselves, in obeisance to a new national treasure.

What counts is that he didn't comb them out of his work in obeisance to some acculturated propriety.

Part of Stewart's genius is to create an imitation of an imaginary happy family life and to market its trappings convincingly at a time when a large segment of the population is in desperate want of such inventions and can afford to pay for them; indeed, many houses in East Hampton have been transformed in devout obeisance to the Stewart Way.

That's because in 2005, Congress and President George W. Bush, in shameless obeisance to the gun lobby, immunized arms manufacturers from damage suits by gunshot victims.

Playing a gaunt, sunken-cheeked Brutus, clad entirely in gray, Ms. Walter gives off the air not just of someone in pained obeisance to Shakespeare's realpolitik but of a prisoner enjoying her own taste of freedom until that, too, comes to a decisive and clanging end.

No less regrettable is that they are hardly alone in their obeisance to the gun lobby.

"My leader!" exclaimed Representative Steven R. Rothman of Fair Lawn, N.J., bowing slightly in mock obeisance.