If you're very close to what happened, you actually do have to duck and cover, like Bert told you, Bert the Turtle.

Generally, the longer and deeper the bow, the stronger the emotion or the greater the difference in social standing.

12th Man If I was to go back to Iraq and speak to the people, I'd have to bow down and kiss their feet.

So Kaluza said to himself, Einstein has been able to describe gravity in terms of warps and curves in space in fact, space and time, to be more precise.

Basic bows originate at the waist and are performed with the back straight and the hands at the sides (for men) or clasped in front (for women), and with the eyes down.

Social bowing is all but extinct, except in some very formal settings, though hand kissing of women by men, which of necessity includes a bow, lingers on in some cultures.

A nod of the head may be regarded as the minimal form of bow forms of kneeling, genuflection, or prostration which involves the hands or whole body touching the ground, are the next levels of gesture.