The king replied, he remembered he had such a nobleman, and believed the privilege he asserted to be his right, and giving him his hand to kiss, his lordship paid his obeisance, and remained covered.
The same cultural relativism and multi-POV-obeisance that Trump rails against as political correctness has also been his friend – it ends up aiding the fascists as much as the Islamo-fascists.
The rite is concluded with his obeisance to the senior monks and his request for forgiveness of his faults.
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.
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 in his obeisance to Anatolia and its cultural heritage, the artist has long been at odds with the mainstream of contemporary art in Turkey, which since the founding of the Turkish Republic has looked to the West for inspiration.
Even as you finish the last of your chips, you can remind yourself that this is not just an ordinary day by the sea, you are paying obeisance to one of the greatest of British composers.
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.
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.
