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  • Genuflecting to the free market got us into this mess and the solution is not more of the same.

    The Faultline At The Heart of the Government 2009

  • Can I just add that “Teh Genuflecting Chipmonks” would be a excellent name for a rock band?

    oh mai! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Genuflecting to authority has become the permanent pose of the American media and the couch potatoes to whom they cater.

    Philip Slater: How the Media Weakens America 2008

  • Genuflecting before all 30 different paintings of Jesus Christ in my Abuelita's apartment in Elmhurst, Queens won't help you out on that one [Side Note: At the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Prince wore the same head-wrap she wears while cleaning her apartment].

    When Did This Place Become "Nutless Corners"? Mauricio 2007

  • Genuflecting before the Reverend Pat Robertson; doing a Stepin Fetchit before Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson (yessboss!); backpedaling on every moderate, sensible position you've ever held on abortion, capital punishment, illegal immigration, gun control, and the Confederate flag; going maudlin about embryonic stem cells as if you knew each one personally — these aren't beneath your dignity but you draw the line at a talking snowman?

    The Simple Life: White House Edition Wolcott, James 2007

  • Genuflecting to his corporate paymasters, Barry asserted:

    And the Empire Mourned....Dissecting the Big Lie 2006

  • Genuflecting and crossing himself repeatedly before the shrine, Alvarado said he believes in St. Death because she delivered his brother safely from prison.

    Archive 2004-03-01 Brian 2004

  • Genuflecting and crossing himself repeatedly before the shrine, Alvarado said he believes in St. Death because she delivered his brother safely from prison.

    'St. Death' calls to the living Brian 2004

  • Genuflecting beside the remains, he jerked a note out of a I 0

    Tek Lab Shatner, William 1991

  • Genuflecting, he handed Rude Water the cards and indicated they were for his squaw.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

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