kow-tow

I find it sad that so many designers feel the need to bow or kow-tow to celebrities when it used to be the designers that set the tone and the styles of the day.

Quelle horreur! Lindsay Lohan's disastrous Paris debut | EW.com 2009

But we are all in the kow-tow. on January 31, 2010 at 6: 21 pm Dave

See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

I was going to kow-tow to the sleazy media pressure, anyway, and go down to donate something in person, because you know, the phone donation thing to Haiti is already being scammed … but a funny thing happened on the way to the Haitian donation place.

Matthew Yglesias » Context in Haiti 2010

And it is a message that, unless you kow-tow to an old order, this is what will happen to you.

Thomas' Wife Reignites Anita Hill Scandal 2010

Ah Kim's house, as he thoroughly knew, and kow-tow to his mother and be slave to her in the immemorial Chinese way.

THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

My dad, a steadfastly ethical person who would rather alert every newspaper in town than kow-tow to extortion, refused and prepared to spend whatever time it took to get his plane.

The Cause of Corruption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

A proud sovereign nation cannot allow small groups of environmentalists to be seen to make it kow-tow.

Hardy Jones: What Will End the Dolphin Slaughter? 2010

A proud sovereign nation cannot allow small groups of environmentalists to be seen to make it kow-tow.

Hardy Jones: What Will End the Dolphin Slaughter? Hardy Jones 2010

Of course, if that happened, it would be a very bad thing for corporate Democrats who don't want anything to change, because it would prove the lie that the only way for Democrats to win is to kow-tow to special interest power and conventional wisdom.

Mike Lux: A Modern Progressive Populist Platform 2010

We just saw a financial reform bill get steadily better over a two-week debate on the floor of the Senate, because politicians lived in mortal fear of appearing to kow-tow to the big banks.

Mike Lux: A Modern Populist Movement 2010