Sentence examples for is obeisance from inspiring English sources

Ancestor worship, prevalent in preliterate societies, is obeisance to the spirits of the dead.

His sole definition of public service is obeisance to "Trump".

What was often used to justify this paradox was obeisance to marital privacy.

The Guardian is a republican newspaper, but on that particular point I don't think the use of the photograph was obeisance to royalty; I think it was about celebrity.

But whether he is paying obeisance to Robert Bresson or anatomising the visceral effects of Speed, what Lane communicates is a conviction, even if it is desperate, that movies aspire to and do sometimes achieve the condition of art, and that all those billions of dollars can occasionally distil something pure, shining and true.

It was his "obeisance".

Re "Marginal Role for Architecture at Ground Zero" (Arts pages, May 23): The ideal of the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center was an obeisance to a past that does not exist.

So far you may not know whether I am paying obeisance, responding to indigestion, or looking for a wayward contact lens.

If Catholicism is measured by obeisance to the pope, his cardinals and the letter of Vatican law, then Rick Santorum is the best Catholic to ever get this far in presidential politics.

If Allah's desire is to force obeisance by the sword, then it should be carried out by his followers.

This argument should appeal even to those whose only obeisance is to the economic gods of efficiency and consumption.