obeisant

Aside from the sinful association of fleshly pleasures, clerics were concerned that the long toe-pieces prevented people from kneeling in the approved obeisant manner.

I’m less convinced by your argument for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which to me felt too obeisant to Scorsese’s usual A-team.

In a flush of terrible timing, Porter sojourned to Israel in February for a conspicuously obeisant meetup with Bibi Netanyahu, who on paper is the portrait of the corrupt plutocrat that Porter made her reputation at home skewering.

He has been obeisant to Putin and, until recently, heaped praise on China’s Xi Jinping.

Fielding a far-left candidate, Democrats are likely to hand Donald Trump, enabled by an obeisant Republican Congress, another four years to undermine America’s cohesion at home and its standing abroad.