Ever since, the media establishment has been falling prostrate before him.
Because Alt is both a hunter and a 25-year veteran of the Pennsylvania fish and game bureaucracy, he also knew that hunters don't always have access to good science, and don't necessarily fall prostrate before it even when they do.
The curtain falls on the prostrate James (some dancers imply that he dies) and Madge, his nemesis.
In Tiepolo's campily exaggerated chalk, pen and wash drawing, "Saints Fidelis of Signaringen and Joseph of Leonessa Banish Heresy," one saint prays while the other gestures "Out!" as a fallen Heresy lies prostrate at his feet.
Having sent a forehand past the defending champion to secure the biggest win of her life Sabine Lisicki fell to the floor and lay prostrate and overwhelmed.
When the pastor's call to fall rang out, the congregation fell hypnotically at an uneven pace to their knees or went entirely prostrate on the floor.
This tactic of Glazer's was repeated elsewhere: in a mall, where Johansson dawdles through a crowd, looks at clothes, and buys a pink sweater that she will wear from now on; in a club, where dancers and drinkers jostle her, amid the music's throb; and out on the street, where she trips and falls, heavily, and lies prostrate, with her nose to the sidewalk.
In Toby Young's memoir of working at Conde Nast, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, he describes a scene in which Wintour fell flat on her face in a hallway, and a young intern stepped over her prostrate body rather than express concern and risk getting fired.
To express their adoration, people often fall to the ground and prostrate themselves.
IN front of one of the holiest sites in Tibetan Buddhism, the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, hundreds of pilgrims fall on the ground spread-eagled, prostrating themselves so forcefully their hands bleed from being smacked on the earth.
