He made a silky genuflexion at the couch.

With an odd genuflexion, he laid down his fire-extinguisher.

Genuflection (or genuflexion), bending at least one knee to the ground, was from early times a gesture of deep respect for a superior.

Aramis must have worn himself to a shadow of his former self by constant genuflexion."

Their genuflexion did not always save them, however, and twice during the meal Dr Maturin was called away to deal with the more sluggish.

The services had been going on all day-processional, hymns, prayers and more prayers, sacrifice, genuflexion, chanting, endless monotony of colorful ritual.

Indeed, in Marxist regimes, despite a certain genuflexion to egalitarian slogans, democracy has become, quite blatantly, a brand name for despotic rule by a self-appointed oligarchy.

Ritual observances continue awkwardly as in the clumsy Hakagawa-like genuflexion, 'A saggy bending of the knees', but the original sense of the ritual, as in so many of the cases described by Harrison and Frazer, seems lost.

However empty their pockets, they are equal in these genuflections before God.

What rested in the box seemed hardly worth a genuflection.

When you look at the Western media, there is a lot of genuflection towards the powers that be.

The Pilgrim acknowledged her claim to it by a low genuflection.

All right, Duncan thought, making a deep genuflection to give the man tune to get closer.

Another might recognize that genuflection as one of fear.

His knees bent slightly in an automatic act of genuflection.

To get beyond vague talk and knowing genuflection, it is never a bad idea to start by deciding what we are talking about.

The original art shows Nancy in a genuflection position wearing a very full, loose dress.

Rising from a position of genuflection, Carson realized she had fired the last round.

The tone implied that a genuflection was in order.

For this was the significance of the newcomer's genuflection.

She had the nuns do lunges to strengthen the muscles for genuflection.

'Genuflection of any sort is not required,' said the god.

Some basketball players, because of their height and a certain hauteur, seem to demand genuflection.

He used to make, it is said, seven hundred genuflections daily to God on his uncovered, often bleeding, knees.

Then he returned to the altar and made a deep genuflection before opening the door of the tabernacle.

She told him about everything that she had witnessed: the discussions, the genuflection, all of it.

After this third genuflection, it was lifted with sufficient force to produce a ftp.

"I am an old camel, familiar with genuflections," he exclaims.

It turns out the fromage business is mostly a genuflection to the past.

Genuflections are still made towards these old gods.

Mondschein wondered if he was supposed to offer a genuflection.

That's a stupid name, just my father's post-Colonial genuflection.

However empty their pockets, they are equal in these genuflections before God.

What rested in the box seemed hardly worth a genuflection.

When you look at the Western media, there is a lot of genuflection towards the powers that be.

The Pilgrim acknowledged her claim to it by a low genuflection.

All right, Duncan thought, making a deep genuflection to give the man tune to get closer.

Another might recognize that genuflection as one of fear.

His knees bent slightly in an automatic act of genuflection.

To get beyond vague talk and knowing genuflection, it is never a bad idea to start by deciding what we are talking about.

The original art shows Nancy in a genuflection position wearing a very full, loose dress.

Rising from a position of genuflection, Carson realized she had fired the last round.

The tone implied that a genuflection was in order.

For this was the significance of the newcomer's genuflection.

She had the nuns do lunges to strengthen the muscles for genuflection.

'Genuflection of any sort is not required,' said the god.

Some basketball players, because of their height and a certain hauteur, seem to demand genuflection.

He used to make, it is said, seven hundred genuflections daily to God on his uncovered, often bleeding, knees.

Then he returned to the altar and made a deep genuflection before opening the door of the tabernacle.

She told him about everything that she had witnessed: the discussions, the genuflection, all of it.

After this third genuflection, it was lifted with sufficient force to produce a ftp.

"I am an old camel, familiar with genuflections," he exclaims.

It turns out the fromage business is mostly a genuflection to the past.

Genuflections are still made towards these old gods.

Mondschein wondered if he was supposed to offer a genuflection.

That's a stupid name, just my father's post-Colonial genuflection.