Sentence examples for genuflected from inspiring English sources

He almost genuflected in his presence.

Mrs Brooks genuflected to those whose phones were hacked - and lives damaged - by journalists in her employ but, as jurors decided, without her knowledge.

Murray leaped to reach Djokovic's overheads, while Djokovic genuflected on the run, returning Murray's low passing shots with deft drop volleys that he launched while on his knees.

Thomas Mann took a hard-eyed view of the bourgeois cult of art, even as he joined the youths who genuflected to Wagner and jostled to catch a glimpse of modern heroes such as Strauss and Mahler.

With great presence of mind he finished his task and genuflected before the altar.

The Bond films have nodded to geopolitics but genuflected toward exotica, and the hero is, in himself, a wild concoction — the free-range spy, roaming abroad in the service of a nonexistent empire back home.

Since they must genuflect to the man they hope to replace, they stress their ability to get things done.

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And he was naive in a wide-eyed, right-wing way, almost genuflecting to John Howard as he called him "the greatest leader in the entire world".A few wowsers yearned for a different face of Australia, such as Olivia Newton-John.

Despite Jeremy Corbyn's failure to genuflect before his sovereign, a rapprochement with the monarch approaches.

Even Ronald Reagan, that icon of conservatism before whom any candidate must genuflect, would be a moderate in today's environment.