1. Contemporary Hollywood movies often make subtle genuflections to the great film-makers of the past.

2. Real art is another matter and, despite recent genuflections towards Rembrandt, a rarity becoming rarer.

3. Not very imaginative, it amounted to a genuflection to Papini and his authoritative views.

4. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes away the muscles which walk and the will which advances.

5. "With all the genuflection to new media, people are watching just as much regular TV as they ever did," Professor Thompson says.

6. Despite frequent genuflection to European novels, we actually spent a lot more time watching "Diff'rent Strokes" than reading Proust, prior to the Internet's spread.

7. He never pretended it was a genuflection to anything but commerce.

8. Elizabeth's physical attractiveness, "next to Jane in birth and beauty", is a genuflection to the accepted conventions of romance, but her appeal lies more in her "wit and vivacity".