kowtow

How To Use kowtow In A Sentence

• Tchitcherine tracks mud off the street into the Center, gets a blush from Luba, a kind of kowtow and mopflourish from the comical Chinese swamper Chu Piang, unreadable stares from an early pupil or two. Gravity's Rainbow
• While persuading believers to put less emphasis on ritual, he must also set up a real deterrent - courts with real teeth that do not kowtow to rich thieves.
• Remarkably, however, U.S. policymakers began kowtowing to the Saudis from the time of the discovery of oil in the kingdom in 1938 before they had any wealth or the United States imported a barrel of their oil. Arab lobby’s unseen influence
• Their first major film was Pastor Hall, the moving account of a German preacher who refuses to kowtow to the Nazis.
• OH BOY -- Today in pundit fever dreams: Jeremy Lott writes at Daily Caller that Gray is a "free-spending throwback to uglier times" who "rode a wave of black resentment against [Adrian Fenty] 's supposed kowtowing to white interests" and "would move to gut Fenty's education reforms as a sop to the DC teachers 'union. DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 4, 2010
• I would like to compliment #2 for a most cromulent use of the word 'kowtow' Center for American Progress Action Fund
• Also, anyone who refuses to kowtow to that toerag is OK with me.
• She's bang up to now without kowtowing to fashion, and catches the zeitgeist in a completely individual way.
• Yueyue's parents were photographed meeting the woman, bowing down in a ritual 'kowtow' - a public expression of gratitude that she had stopped to help their daughter when so many others had walked on by. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• Her pride wouldn't allow her to kowtow to anyone.