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"prostrate" Definitions
  1. lying on the ground and facing downwards synonym prone (3)
  2. prostrate (with something) so shocked, upset, etc. that you cannot do anything
"prostrate" Synonyms
prone flat horizontal reclining supine recumbent procumbent level spreadeagled sprawling fallen abject stretched out lying down lying flat face down bowed low on one's front decumbent flat on your back submissive servile sycophantic obsequious deferential ingratiating reverential subservient grovelling(UK) fawning slavish snivelling(UK) subordinate toadyish bootlicking groveling(US) sycophantish cringing sniveling(US) overwhelmed helpless impotent overcome overpowered paralysed(UK) crushed dazed disarmed powerless speechless stunned defenceless(UK) reduced defenseless(US) dejected depressed desolate desperate dispirited exhausted tired fatigued weary drained spent knackered wearied pooped beat bushed worn dead done limp aweary beaten bleary jaded loggy weak frail feeble debilitated weakened enfeebled enervated infirm delicate sapped slight wasted languid faint effete prostrated asthenic wimpy wimpish unsubstantial oppressed subjugated maltreated abused downtrodden mistreated tyrannised(UK) tyrannized(US) persecuted victimised(UK) victimized(US) browbeaten subject misused repressed burdened exploited tormented subdued ineffective ineffectual incapable hamstrung impuissant useless inadequate handcuffed unfit paralyzed(US) unable vulnerable incapacitated unconscious senseless comatose numb out stupefied benumbed collapsed immobile inert lifeless motionless cold torpid asleep catatonic flattened kayoed bedridden disabled immobilised(UK) immobilized(US) housebound ill ailing confined bedbound bedfast invalid laid up confined to bed out of action out of commission handicapped creeping climbing clinging reptant reptilian serpentine spreading stoloniferous trailing vermicular vinelike growing along the ground vining straggling rambling debilitate exhaust enervate tire weaken sap enfeeble fatigue drain incapacitate disable devitalize cripple frazzle immobilise(UK) immobilize(US) overtire tax knacker overwhelm crush overpower devastate floor whelm overmaster swamp oppress grind down snow under disturb stun shatter daze upset get to knock sideways blow away bow cringe grovel kneel kowtow surrender bow down fall at feet flatter court toady truckle fawn brown-nose be obsequious be servile crawl bootlick woo prostrate oneself fell drop down knock down knock over mow down bowl over bowl down flatten deck topple bring down knock to the ground ground KO lay out throw down knock out genuflect curtsy stoop crouch cower kneel down bend the knee fall to one's knees get down on knees go down on your knees bend low bow low go on all fours bow and scrape throw out cancel revoke repeal rescind annul nullify quash abolish invalidate ax(US) axe(UK) void withdraw stop abrogate retract abandon negate discourage dishearten dispirit dismay depress daunt demoralise(UK) demoralize(US) deject distress unnerve cow chill alarm abash dash unman trouble scare ravage destroy ruin wreck demolish smash annihilate raze total trash waste extinguish cream spoil damage desecrate disarm disband demilitarise(UK) demilitarize(US) deactivate demobilise(UK) demobilize(US) subdue subjugate unarm render defenceless deprive of arms make powerless take weapons from demob outstretched lying full length More
"prostrate" Antonyms
supine upright erect hale happy healthy self-sufficient straight successful vertical standing perpendicular unlikely improbably sitting face up plumb raised upward face-down mighty powerful rugged stalwart stout strong unwearied fresh cheerful encouraged lively saved persistent unceasing long-suffering uncomplaining tireless invigorated active energized(US) energetic hearty lusty robust sturdy vigorous able capable competent convincing efficient expert tough burly muscular brawny beefy athletic sinewy strapping overpowering manful manly heavyweight buff jacked advantaged favored(US) favoured(UK) exalted honored(US) honoured(UK) liberated privileged untroubled absorbed engaged engrossed interested intrigued rapt amused excited forbearing patient refreshed stimulated activated animated content energised(UK) eager enthusiastic reenergized keen regenerated freshened reinvigorated reanimated reborn rested recreated renewed restored conscious alert awake aware awakened insomniac sleepless insomnolent up cognizant stirring responsive wakeful roused restless not asleep not sleeping wide awake wide-awake fortify strengthen activate aid allow assist assuage beef up build construct create enable encourage energise(UK) energize(US) grow help improve increase fight stay fresh brace reinforce buttress support toughen boost harden secure stimulate sustain envigorate(UK) invigorate(US) restore augment relax unwind chill decompress de-stress breathe easy chill out have a break loosen up take it easy break elevate expand incite lift lose raise round uncompress blow up make pitch plant fashion prefabricate rear upraise uprear hoist put up set up pick up put together prop comfort hearten embolden steel nerve inspire make happy gee up reassure assure compliment uplift commend please cheer praise calm be defeated by be overcome by suffer defeat against be beaten by be conquered by fall to lose to submit to succumb to yield to give up to forfeit to capitulate to right accept approve keep pass permit sanction straighten validate arm militarise(UK) militarize(US) hold shoulder carry steady hold up prop up

166 Sentences With "prostrate"

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His subjects had a tendency to prostrate themselves before him.
People need to lose their bearings before they prostrate themselves.
I prostrate toward Mecca and recite the Arabic verses out loud.
They are prostrate to higher values, motivated by desire for impact.
"Chin up," said Duke, camera in hand, prostrate on the floor.
Now, with the always-on functionality, I'm prostrate at the altar.
People dive for cover or prostrate themselves in fear of their lives.
Masked officers carried away prostrate protesters and hurled them into police vans.
He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest-trees.
Instead, his Panenka was clawed back off the line by the prostrate keeper.
Masked security forces carried away prostrate protesters and hurled them into police vans.
Medical staff frantically stepped around the prostrate bodies and limbs on the floor.
Courtiers reinstated archaic traditions, such as a requirement that commoners prostrate themselves before royals.
Thus Kafka's harrow continued to carve away on the back of a prostrate nation.
That was something where Silicon Valley initially approached the Trump administration in a prostrate position.
When not prostrate and crying, Bunny can be mean, delivering a sucker punch of a riposte.
The resulting work was Pike's infamous 222 book, The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro Government.
" Prostrate and blinded, he heard a disembodied voice ask, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
Hundreds of Muslims prostrate themselves in the direction of Mecca on carpets spread on the ground (pictured).
Trump had to prostrate himself before the American people at the start of Sunday's second presidential debate.
In other cases, Mr. Trump's associates lashed out at Republican candidates who failed to prostrate themselves sufficiently.
Dixon partnered with the company anyway, and turned his attention to another thing people lie prostrate on: beds.
Inside is a waxwork model of Menelik sitting on his original throne; some visitors prostrate themselves in deference.
Word of the Day adjective: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground adjective: lying face downward verb: get into a prostrate position, as in submission verb: throw down flat, as on the ground verb: render helpless or defenseless _________ The word prostrate has appeared in 30 articles on nytimes.
On the other hand, look at this concerned dog checking out the prostrate man in an Adrian Peterson jersey.
But as part of the Buddhist "bowing pilgrimage," participants stop every few steps and lie prostrate on the ground.
John explodes into the room, bundles of toys in his arm, over to where I'm lying pathetic and prostrate.
By late afternoon, old indigents with hennaed beards filled many of the alleyways, prostrate in nests of discarded twigs.
This may have made sense in the late 1940s, when Europe was prostrate and the Soviet Union was marauding.
The British elite feels it has no choice but to prostrate itself before an American president it clearly finds odious.
In Raquel Paiewonsky's "Shore" (2016), a palm tree catches on fire while half-naked female figures prostrate before cascading triangles.
Some prostrate themselves on the cool stone ground, while others walk clockwise around the temple, spinning hand-held prayer wheels.
I was, like everyone else at that age, prostrate and incapacitated before my own stormy needs and un-understood frustrations.
Luna also said that tests indicated that death from prostrate cancer was not likely at the moment when Neruda died.
Video footage showed Balbo falling over one tier of the stand and then lying prostrate on a concrete staircase below.
It started, as these things sometimes do, with a recurring dream: There is a woman lying prostrate on a bed.
Coe's vision of the scene is unremittingly bleak, with uniformed human-animal hybrids firing bullets into the bodies of prostrate protestors.
But then, Germany was a thoroughly defeated nation, prostrate at the feet of its neighbors, and very ready to be remade.
It's unsettling, and awe-inspiring, the sorta stuff that'll either inspire you to bob your head or lay prostrate in supplication.
Some lay prostrate, guiding themselves over foam rollers, while others had their legs wrapped in compression bands or bulky massage boots.
Five times a day they line up and prostrate themselves in prayer, with arrows painted on the floor helpfully pointing towards Mecca.
The story is a reminder that, whether or not God himself exists, humans will always create a god to prostrate themselves before.
Prostrate on the floor were his brother, Faniel Cyril, and his cousin, Alicia Delcy, both of whom were showing symptoms of cholera.
First, a disconsolate Scarlett O'Hara weaves her way through hundreds of injured Confederate soldiers lying prostrate on the streets of downtown Atlanta.
Scores of fellow believers were prostrate in the middle of the avenue, praying before the start of the city's Muslim Day parade.
One wonders what has happened to the solitary possibly suicidal figure lying prostrate in an oar-less and unanchored boat in "Provincetown" (12753).
Customers had to trudge to a mattress store and awkwardly prostrate themselves on numerous surfaces before choosing one to use for a decade.
A CNN logo was superimposed on one of the figures, whom Trump tackles, then begins pummeling as he lay prostrate on the ground.
I kneel when I pray to the Lord and prostrate on the floor when I want to completely submit to a higher power.
All lo-fi, surf-rock grooves (wassup reverb!), Nielsen's insouciant vocal delivered (possibly) from a prostrate position on a couch, beer in hand.
But then things got a little crazy: A prostrate woman had caused a small pileup, and Ms. Ma was heading straight for it.
She was found prostrate on her bed by her mother, who had come by the apartment to take her to a court appearance.
Buddhist pilgrims prostrate themselves in front of the temple every day, as they have since it was first built in the 7th century.
But his death at 56 of prostrate cancer, a common affliction among those exposed to the radiation from the blast, hangs over his family.
The elaborate ceremony saw Ms Sineenat prostrate herself before the king and Queen Suthida Tidjai, a former flight-attendant whom he married in May.
He rose to prominence as an anti-establishment figure after refusing to prostrate himself before the statue as a first-year student last year.
Morgan, elsewhere in the episode, still chose to completely disengage from her conflict with Frankel, even as the other women insisted she prostrate herself.
The curtain was then tied to a frame and embellished with a small depiction of the scene, the victim's body lying bound and prostrate.
In the 1990s, Russia was economically prostrate and eager for American investments but still proud and wanting to be seen as superpower on world stage.
The company, it seemed, faced two options: Keep the interview and endure the criticism and boycott threats; or pull it and prostrate itself to critics.
Trump intuited and revealed the worst traits of worried Americans — their search for scapegoats, their desire to prostrate themselves before an autocratic savior, their bigotry.
We don't have to prostrate ourselves before big round numbers like 300, 500, and 3,000, which have little intrinsic meaning, because we now have better numbers.
In the UK, a major trial was conducted last year at Medical Detection Dogs, where dogs were taught to sniff out prostrate cancer from urine samples.
Dressed in a baby blue soccer jersey and mesh shorts, he finishes tying up two extras wearing fetish gear of sorts, lying prostrate on the floor.
And for this, he is probably a little bit chapped with Vick suggesting he has to prostrate himself before the NFL and the public at large.
Sanders raised a staggering $228 million during the primary, proving that national candidates no longer need to prostrate themselves before the wealthy to raise the necessary funds.
And here members of Congress are treating a faux pas against him as a grave slight for which the White House must prostrate itself to make amends.
Yet the president lay prostrate in bed, feverishly hallucinating, as his deputies substituted for him at the talks among the leaders of World War I's victorious nations.
In another emblematic image, a prepubescent girl strolls along a street corner, stepping alongside a British sniper, prostrate on the sidewalk behind sandbags, rifle at the ready.
Cleaning up yet another mess created by his pugnacious predecessor Travis Kalanick, the former Expedia CEO flew to London yesterday to prostrate himself before regulators this morning.
In the video, Mr. Benalla can be seen, in unauthorized police gear, violently dragging a protester on the ground even as the prostrate man pleads with him.
The leader told us he would read three phrases, and after each one, we'd prostrate ourselves on the ground, where we'd lie for five minutes in contemplation.
Italy, which like so much of the West is eager to prostrate itself before an Iran that it should by any reasonable standard oppose, kowtowed without hesitation.
"Some people just know how to work a red carpet," Reynolds added to the photo, drawing attention to the fact that Beetz is reclining atop a prostrate Deadpool.
When he finished, Mr. West retook the center, then lay prostrate on the floor as Kirk Franklin, the gospel maximalist and bridge-builder, emerged to give a benediction.
He summoned the protagonists, a former general leading the protests and an army-chief-turned-prime minister, and with the two prostrate before him, ordered them to desist.
In 2012 a mass shooting at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 six- and seven-year-old children and six staff members, leaving Americans prostrate with grief.
It's just a fun one to go to, and you see all your friends and sometimes there's like, Olivia Colman that you can prostrate yourself in front of.
But if you do know him, you'll know that his early 1660s canvas "The Repentant Magdalene" — depicting a prostrate, largely bare Mary Magdalene — is widely considered a masterpiece.
There I learned to point with an open hand, and to prostrate myself as I thought of the teachers who have helped to get me to this moment.
People knelt or lay prostrate to get the right angle for a photo, or were silenced by the beauty of the park that had been built on tragedy.
The juxtaposition in a shallow space of bodies bound by gravity and others that aren't — like those of the prostrate Magdalene and the floating devil — is productively unsettling.
Within minutes, the men are robbing an Atlanta bank in a scene filled with gunfire and rattling, visceral specifics, like the wet stains spreading under the weeping, prostrate employees.
When his levels continued to rise, Stiller was sent by Kruger to be examined by a urologist, who then ordered him to have an MRI screening of his prostrate.
An oil painting, titled "boogie man", shows a woman held prostrate beneath the hangman's noose, her head held back by a headless man wearing a pair of red gloves.
Why do I humiliate myself and prostrate my neediness in front of my friends' graciousness while obsessing over my fallen locks like an ex-lover I cannot get over?
And on Monday, the same jury administered a final devastating blow to the already prostrate and squirming defendants in the form of a punitive damage award of $25 million.
During the more mellow instrumental break, Mars suddenly just lays down on the stage, his angular body prostrate on the floor, as if he just needs a quick break.
For instance, in a talk at Yale in the 1980s, he said, falsely, that medical students in his creative writing course didn't know the difference between prostrate and prostate.
Referee John LoBianco directs champion Muhammad Ali to a neutral corner before he started the knockout count over prostrate challenger Zora Folley in the seventh round of heavyweight little fight.
First-year students are required to prostrate themselves before a statue of late Thai King Rama V, but older students are meant to do nothing except observe from the audience.
It grows tedious when pedophile priests and loathsome politicians are conveniently dismissed as Satanic, even as they spew biblical verse and prostrate themselves before the cross, recruiting the Christian faithful.
He was later forced to prostrate himself before a portrait of the late king, apologize, and shout "I love the king" while onlookers hurled punches and death threats at him.
As we walked across, I wanted to prostrate myself to the goddess of second chances who had granted me this child when I had all but given up on motherhood.
They saw Islam as threatening to overrun a prostrate West weakened by the erosion of traditional Christian values, and viewed themselves as unjustly ostracized by out-of-touch political elites.
Ait Said covered his eyes with his right hand as he clutched the back of his knee while lying prostrate on the crash mat before officials ran to tend to him.
Bob Corker, the current chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee who recently accused Kerry of "lying prostrate" in front of his Russian counterpart Lavrov, said the President has hampered Kerry's efforts.
I could stay in it forever, like those Victorian gentlemen found after days by worried families—prostrate upon a back-alley opium den couch, obscured in a cloud of stale smoke.
For some reason, the sight of my loved ones shimmying with pleasure around the corpse of a disemboweled creature lying prostrate on the dining room table doesn't fill me with joy.
For New York to prostrate itself in front of a company trying to control the flow of ideas in America would be an insult to our commitment to open, diverse debate.
"If North Korea really does master nuclear weapons and their delivery, then the whole world will have to prostrate itself at the feet of North Korea," he said in the interview.
The refrain from many public Jews follows the same basic logic: I am a person of faith, I believe in a God to whom I prostrate myself, just like the Baileys.
After all, if his divorce left him prostrate like Germany post-Versailles, then we can more easily understand why, like the Germany of the 1930s, Ferguson is so attracted to imperial conquest.
The prince looked carefully at the villa's 12 main rooms as servants lay prostrate or knelt on the ground ready to start the white Porsche and open the driver and passenger doors.
It shows an eagle — a symbol of Nazi Germany — attacking a prostrate angel representing Hungary, a juxtaposition implying that Hungarian officials were victims of Nazi aggression, rather than partners in Nazi atrocities.
The cool tiled floor of the shrine is often carpeted with devotees, some carrying tiffins of food on outings with their children, others in fraying and torn shalwar kameez prostrate in prayer.
"Christ Carrying the Cross" depicts Jesus accosted by a scary mob, while in "Saint Jerome" the artist's namesake lies prostrate in a dark, eerie landscape as an owl and lion look on.
Deep in that corner of the Underdark, I come across a prostrate skeleton; some kind of trapped ghost, his presumed spirit a purplish skull floating in the silver surface of a mirror.
Most people who have to pay the price for a particularly hard night of drinking nurse their wounds prostrate on the couch or slouching at a desk with greasy delivery and some ibuprofen.
One man was beaten, his assault streamed on social media by a bystander; police forced a woman to prostrate herself in apology before a picture of the king, watched by a jeering crowd.
The police, instead of protecting the victims of such attacks, tend to arrest them, and in at least one case forced a suspect to prostrate herself before a picture of the late king.
So rather than actively point out the futility of the post-game press conference genre, the Yankees would prefer their players prostrate themselves before the press and give them exactly what they want.
In the prophecies, the Jews restored to their homeland prostrate themselves before the ascendant King of the Jews, the returning Messiah whom they once spurned—and Judaism is erased from the Earth forever.
As long as Americans are blasé about the immorality of subjecting prostrate humans to intentional cruelty, and as long as their government can operate with impunity, Mr. McCain's best lesson will need continuous relearning.
For "Strange Mercy" she lies prostrate, evoking the heavy content of the album of the same name, as a new backdrop is revealed featuring a phantom with a yonic yawn, decked out in red lipstick.
Worry not, for we here at Noisey return each month—or whenever we feel like it—to prostrate ourselves before to the misguided souls who thirstily spew their "art" at us in our Twitter mentions.
" In this section, Mr. Klak plays Kafka, prostrate and distraught over the breakup of his first engagement to Ms. Bauer, which is said to have led him to write the first chapters of "The Trial.
With Junior off the board, and the region's trafficking volume surging (it tripled between 22019 and 2014), and the economy prostrate, the region faces a leadership vacuum when its public institutions are vulnerable to corruption.
Exquisite photorealism is only half the story with Miami artist Ashley Oubré's stunning greyscale illustrations, often of nude figures lying prostrate or face down on the ground, picture-perfect images of loneliness, abandonment, and grief.
The Zapotec and Mixtec women of San Andrés Huayapam, the people who invented the drink thousands of years ago, prostrate themselves in the markets of Oaxaca with large tubs or earthenware pots containing this lumpy liquid.
Sivan Cohen Elias's "Hack" (2016) for two guitars, on the other hand, deconstructed the instruments themselves, laying them prostrate as Jesse Langen threaded wires through their strings, or lifted them to shred a bow along them.
Consisting of both static installations, videos, and black-and-white photography, the rousing group show takes an extra bit of time playing with the image of man or woman lying down, sometimes fixed in a prostrate position.
A photograph taken on New Year's Eve on a street in Manchester gained traction on social media, its composition invoking a Renaissance painting and its content — it showed prostrate revelers — becoming a potent emblem of excess drinking.
He evoked the sense of how we are often made prostrate before an idea of equality — spelling out the French word "égalité" in flower petals on the floor —  while the fulfillment of the idea nevertheless eludes us.
Lying prostrate and cackling, I nearly skewered her on my first run through the area, but her genuine concern for my well-being became one of the few points of light in a world consumed by darkness.
Glyphosate-based herbicides, which are specifically designed to be paired with genetically modified seeds but are also used domestically, have been shown to cause DNA damage, infertility, low sperm count and prostrate or testicular cancer in rats.
READ: "I will kill you": Japanese man attacks schoolgirls, killing 2 "You know how many people you just stabbed, you dog?" a furious bystander yelled, aiming a kick at the prostrate attacker and threatening to kill him.
In a video circulated by the palace to mark her promotion on Wednesday, Queen Suthida was seen prostrate on the ground in a pink outfit, as the king sat above her and anointed her with holy water.
With it's practically prostrate, vinyl-crackled beats, ultra-menacing strings, and twisted lyrics that slide off his tongue like an ice cube slips down the small of your back,  Dr. Octagon remains an innovative, mind-expanding classic.
Carved from single piece of wood and covered with mushrooms and moss, the prostrate woman is turned toward the earth, seeming to question whether we can submit ourselves to nature, becoming another stratum in the rock face.
It was simultaneously uncomfortable and moving and life-affirming to have my innermost troubles read out loud, as I laid prostrate under a bunch of smoking dried shrubbery while a stranger rested her hand on my solar plexus.
The proceedings slowly become more naturalistic over the course of the first scene; all the while, Abigail kneels at her prostrate cousin's bed, smiling eerily at the audience as the town begins to whip itself up into madness.
When her husband had to go back to work after his paternity leave, they moved in with her parents in Colorado Springs so that someone would be able to look after the baby whenever she was prostrate with pain.
Prayuth Chan-ocha, the leader of the junta, has scolded Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, a student activist, for campaigning against a tradition whereby students at Thailand's grandest university prostrate themselves in front of a statue of its eponymous founder, King Chulalongkorn.
Though early retellings of the story often focused on Manson himself, later ones have tackled the motivations of the girls, and the ways that their willingness to prostrate themselves to Manson's desires and orders reflects and twists patriarchal assumptions.
The subject of "The Golden Striker" is a golden field, specifically the one seen in John Constable's "The Cornfield" (1826), which Constable referred to as "The Drinking Boy," after the prostrate child apparently drinking from a stream in the foreground.
The company said that it plans to focus first on breast, prostrate and other major cancers, and expects to partner with other medical centers beyond MSK, as well as commercial labs and pharmaceutical companies as it grows and develops its applications.
If it was true that she was an 18th-century gold digger — a latter-day witch — then it was also true that she was a mid-19th-century saint, happily prostrate to the surge of her own innate maternal impulse.
But producing antivenom is not an area that pharmaceutical companies have traditionally been keen to invest in, Clevers said Campaigners often describe snakebites as a hidden health crisis, with snakebites killing more people than prostrate cancer and cholera worldwide, Cammack said.
That was prog's intention—to keep listeners perpetually deciphering the concept-heavy, information-packed songs; to have fans prostrate themselves to musicians who liked to think of themselves as drifting towards the gods rather than being anchored down to a local scene.
He moved in circles and danced across the floor, using the restraint as a tool; at times he sat at the edge and let his feet dangle, and at one point lay prostrate and extended his hand to the crowd, offering a benediction.
The wrongness of this prescription, he says, is borne out today, five years later, with Greece prostrate under the burden of the E.U.'s highest external debt (in relation to its economy's size), the highest unemployment (29 percent) and grim social and psychological fallout.
The woman also said she was forced to apologize to the chief justice's wife (even though she felt there was nothing to apologize for), and that she had to prostrate herself on the floor and rub her nose at the wife's feet.
In order to get to Tyrus Wong's indelibly delicate pre-production watercolors of the movie Bambi, one has to step around (or over) Liz Young's unsettling corpse-like sculpture "Ghost" (2014) that evokes the prostrate bodies of America's too many victims of gun violence.
It was not just the elephants and courtiers who were forced to prostrate themselves: days before the coronation the palace released images of the king getting married for the fourth time, in which his new wife, a former stewardess, grovelled before the unsmiling groom.
You don't need to prostrate yourself but David Bonderman, whenever you think of that joke — and I think he meant something slightly different when he said it, I think he was talking about having discussions with ... There's more discussion with more women around the table.
But if you find yourself erring as a public figure in modern western pop culture, there's really only one way to make it up to the populace: you must prostrate yourself on the altar of late night television and beg and/or mug for the public's forgiveness.
On Tuesday, Amazon confirmed it would build new offices in Long Island City, Queens, and a suburb of Washington, DC, called Crystal City, ending a massive bidding war that saw the leaders of almost 250 cities prostrate themselves at the feet of the world's richest man.
The wide swaths of humanity, prostrate to BEG the Lord, who really did give them so many chances to reach up and grab Christ's infinite mercy, to, please save them from a life of eternal damnation, to let them bask in the glory of your light.
In early December, following the first round of the nation's parliamentary elections, which had been dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, my language notebook read: mosque to prostrate oneself salah (prayer) imam sheikh beard carpet forbiddenOn many days, I went to Tahrir Square, to report on the ongoing revolution.
I didn't see the man as a monster, exactly, but I was repulsed by his face, by his greedy eyes, by the way he still looked at me like I was that prostrate girl in her lonely, white bed, whom he was drawing up from the bowels of hell.
One picture taken in Manchester which showed police arresting a suspect with a man in the background lying prostrate in the road reaching for a bottle of beer went viral on social media, with suggestions it had similarities to paintings by the likes of William Hogarth and Italian master Caravaggio.
While his enemy lies prostrate before him, the hero hesitates, sword in hand; but, just as thoughts of leniency crowd his mind—he is, after all, famous for his sense of duty, for doing the right thing—he sees that Turnus is wearing a piece of armor torn from Pallas's body.
Yet the enigmatic singer asked Garcia to quickly return to the spotlight, surprising her with a visit from Oprah Winfrey while she was still prostrate with grief, the now-43-year-old reveals in her upcoming memoir, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince, which appears in this week's issue of PEOPLE.
For each song, Clark would move into a new pose: lying prostrate for "Strange Mercy," fists raised for "Digital Witness," and so on: rather than slip into the identities of her different characters, Clark's living doll costume served as a kind of brutalist metaphor for the line she was drawing through the set.
With the fabulous Matt Phillips as Queen Gregory, a prostrate and lame King, and a protagonist in the apparent midsts of mental illness, The Coward marks a modern moment; gender lines are blurred irreversibly, mental health and its treatments are on the tips of our tongues, and lead actresses need no longer look like Barbies.
If the movies are in trouble (and domestically things aren't great at the box office, and this film bombed), it's partly because the vast middle has gone out of the American filmmaking, and with it have gone memorable characters, screenwriting, risk and fun — as well as a kind of moderate seriousness that didn't prostrate itself before Oscar voters.
The black monochrome of the silhouette obscures whether we are looking at the figure from the front or the back, and while the wall label tells us that the work "has been described by Walker as 'your essentialist-token slave maiden in midair,'" we might also view her as lying prostrate, fighting off a rapist or beckoning a lover.
Our children don't mix with others from the department; we are not in the "in" crowd, we have sought our social outlets elsewhere, and we generally try not to agitate anyone with our "crazy ideas" about how the very politicians who prostrate themselves in paroxysmal patriotic "thank yous" are actively voting for legislation that guts our benefits and culls our numbers.
Mr Scott identifies four factors that are necessary for the failure of such "schemes to improve the human condition": an administrative imposition of order that is inflexible and leaves out a lot of details about things in an attempt to make them simpler; an ideology that elevates science and technology above all else; an authoritarian state; and a prostrate civil society.
In Huma Bhabha's spare, striking installation on the roof of the Met—a pair of monumental figures, one prostrate, either in prayer or in fear, and the other a battle-scarred, five-faced warrior-golem—she similarly flips the script on conventions of beauty, while injecting figurative traditions (Eastern and Western, ancient and modern) with a dose of pulp science fiction.
Clever promotion by Daguerre and his circle meant that his invention whipped up febrile excitement in France and elsewhere; in 1839, a satirical print was made of the "Daguerreotypomanie" ("Daguerrotypomania") that swept the country, showing people taking daguerreotypes from balloons, dancing in prostrate ecstasy around giant cameras, and forming rowdy queues that stretch beyond the horizon for the chance to get their photo taken.
Defectors tell stories of children discouraged by Butler from attending secular schools; of followers forbidden to speak publicly about the group; of returning travellers quarantined for days, lest they transmit a contagious disease to Butler; of devotees lying prostrate whenever he entered the room, or adding bits of his nail clippings to their food, or eating spoonfuls of sand that he had walked upon.
" People like Pollitt loved the Soviet state even more when the rich and powerful attacked it in extravagant terms: "Eastward, also prostrate, also in dire confusion, lay the huge mass of Russia — not a wounded Russia only, but an infected Russia, a plague-bearing Russia," declared Winston Churchill, who regarded such revolutionary ideas as "political doctrines which destroyed the health and even the soul of nations.
" Her eye for material details is wonderfully vivid and precise: "Marble floors, heavy whitewashed piers, prostrate figures in the penumbra, rows of yellow slippers outside in the sunlight — out of such glimpses one must reconstruct a vision of the long vistas of arches, the blues and golds of the mirhab, the lustre of bronze chandeliers, and the ivory inlaying of the twelfth-century minbar of ebony and sandalwood.
Much like the favorite joke of modern feminism that to get a good "beach body" is to lie, quite simply, prostrate on the beach, I'm of the mind that "beach reads" are a dull conspiracy by airport bookshops—there are no good reasons to believe that romance books or murder mysteries pair with downtime better than, say, literally any other, better book, unless I've overlooked some crucial study that says plot twists are conducive to a tan.

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