The mood leading up the match was positively electric, and many fans from both sides were genuflecting and praying for a victory before the game began.
We pray at them," she says, and before she can finish, Bhanu is genuflecting, curved head to the ground.
We are genuflecting to the awesome power of the credit lobby".
Now it's genuflecting to special interests.
It is not that we are obliged to genuflect before nobles - it is that nobles are obliged to defer to us.
And he sure wasn't alone in genuflecting before the best research Wall Street could provide.
He's being sucked back inside the Coalition bubble, issue after issue, at a time when Australians need him to be speaking to them, not genuflecting before his own people.
Time and circumstance may have helped to humanize him, to make pulling for him feel less like genuflecting before a king, but LeBron James is still not like the rest of us.
For example: Kenneth Branagh, who once declined to be made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, genuflecting before an audience of dudes in Punisher T-shirts, as if to suggest that while he was making all those fancy Shakespeare adaptations, what he really wanted to do was direct a movie based on the Mighty Thor.
It was 1969, and he was in Dresden, and he stood in front of the painting for three hours, genuflecting, before finally walking backwards out of the gallery in silent awe.
