His prose hops with dropped names, compulsive puns, learned allusions, winks at the reader, and repeated bows to popular culture.
"The Artist," a fairy tale about the transition to the talkies, opens in 1927 with it leading man, the matinee idol George Valentin Jean Dujardinn), taking repeated bows after another hit.
This theater used to have an extremely vocal number of highly opinionated balletomanes, who thought nothing of holding up any performance while they recalled individual dancers to the stage for repeated bows after minor solos.
There's also the repeated line "bow down bitches", which seems a mile away from all that independent women and single ladies business, while people who've criticised her decision to name her tour Mrs Carter are also asked to have a think about what they've done: "I took some time to live my life, but don't think I'm just his little wife".
For about 10 minutes, she closed her eyes, mouthed prayers silently in Arabic and repeated a sequence of standing, bowing and kneeling.
The decision to make public this intimate side of his life has been taken because McKinnon's family now feel that there is a real possibility the government may bow to repeated requests from the United States and allow the extradition.
Short disagreed but how the Italian must rue his board's failure to bow to repeated requests to sign Tom Huddlestone from Tottenham last month.
Vaz spoke out against the government's refusal to bow to repeated demands to publish or commission estimates of the numbers expected to enter Britain after unofficial research predicted as many as 50,000 people would arrive from Romania and Bulgaria each year.
Tie your ribbon around the hair tie into a bow and repeat this for the rest of the horse's tail.
The first four stanzas are short and fairly similar in shape, and the strange and slowly accumulating group sound, with accordion and vibraphone, cymbals and bowed bass, repeats a figure accordingly.
The BMA agreed to call off walkouts planned for 1, 8 and 16 December after the health secretary finally bowed to their repeated request to drop his longstanding demand – albeit temporarily – to impose a punitive new contract on England's 45,000 junior doctors if agreement was not reached, largely on terms he had dictated.
