| 单词 | cringing |
| 例句 | And he’s a terrible singer—just cringingly, comically bad. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Flipping through magazines, cringing at kitten heels, even though those were the only ones I ever had a shot of wearing in Bev Jones's house. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z We sit and wait, cringing at the sound of glass breaking, things smashing as his gang ransacks the house and the grounds. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Finally she turned her face toward them and Olanna looked at her: a plain village girl curled up on the bed as if she were cringing from one more furious blow from life. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When I do, I leave Marcus cringing on the floor and run after him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I caught myself cringing, jumping at the sound of his voice. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “No. I don’t drink either,” I say, cringing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Once upon a time—fairly recently, in fact—Molly would’ve gagged over these words, both because they’re blatantly sycophantic and cringingly sentimental. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She resumed cringing in horror once Mr. Quisling finished copying James’s note: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The picture over the couch caught my eye—the cringing, red-cheeked maiden—and I wondered what Alice was feeling just then. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I’ve never actually been on one, but Simon says it’s just a flock of mortified kids cringing while their parents ask questions. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z We learn to sit up straight, eyes front, faces blank, both feet on the floor, listening to the whack of rubber on cringing flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Rage and cringing fear had created these monsters. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They reacted the exact way we had—first, cringing away from the light, then stopping short in shock. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Instead of cringing, I give him a nasty stare and hold my ground. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “You said that I shouted at Anna,” I say, cringing at the thought of it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur has hit peak awkward, and even he’s cringing at himself. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I said, cringing even as the word left my mouth. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Boatwright’s dæmon fell to the floor and rolled over, and Boatwright was cringing back, trying to hold his dæmon, trying to avoid the deadly white teeth of the vixen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Above me the sky is bile-colored, and the sight of it fills me with anxiety, my body cringing away from it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Cowering there like a cringing puppy. Can you not stand on your feet when I talk to you?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z No longer would he be a cringing puppy, ashamed of the welts on his back, avoiding Rekh’s eye. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He took a long swig and made a big production out how refreshing it was—even though he was still sort of cringing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It is hard to picture a large expressionless metallic figure cringing, but it managed. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Now they had all seen—everyone in the shop—and no doubt were scorning him for a poor sort of creature, cringing and puny, unable to defend himself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “Come on, get up out of there, you cringing load of catsmeat,” he bellowed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Meanwhile I was there and not there, cringing at Luce’s touch, sprouting goose bumps, and worrying that I hadn’t washed properly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When the phone rings again, Annabelle answers, cringing as if the despicable creature is wadded up in a paper towel in her own hand. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z At once he was on his feet, cringing away from her, quite obviously repulsed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I swallow, cringing as my own saliva feels like I gulped hot coals. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At that moment a gosling waddled close to the dog, who had been cringing in a corner of the courtyard. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Henry says, cringing so hard at himself that one eye closes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Its radiance entered the room and pooled before the wily nagual, who was cringing in the farthest corner of the cave. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The chaplain’s composure began trickling back as he studied the queer, cringing figure intently. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I look up, cringing, terrified the Commandant has returned. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There are off-hour trips to silent museums, where the boy tries and fails to walk through galleries as quietly as his instructor does, cringing when each footfall echoes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Tenorio was not a small man, but with one hand my father jerked him off his feet and pulled the cringing figure forward. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She opened her eyes and saw Haiyi, the servant, cringing in the corner, and two richly dressed figures standing over her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Zahotep turned back to his drill and Ranofer started down the length of the shop, his bare feet cringing away from the gritty carpet of stone chips that covered the dirt floor. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She still doesn’t speak, cringing every time Rolf stomps through the house in his shiny boots. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I’m glad your father isn’t alive to see you cringing and bowing like a whipped dog.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He saw men cringing as they neared the flames, heard children cry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But...if it was all true, why did I feel this burning, cringing inside me like I was the one who’d done something wrong? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I only know how to break locks, not open them,” said Seven, cringing. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He was still in the strait-waistcoat and in the padded room, but the suffused look had gone from his face, and his eyes had something of their old pleading—I might almost say, “cringing”—softness. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I backed up slow as I could, cringing with every creak of the wheels. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She resumed cringing in horror once Mr. Quisling finished copying James’s note: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Still cringing away from the crow, I look up. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z We learn to sit up straight, eyes front, faces blank, both feet on the floor, listening to the whack of rubber on cringing flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Where else is there?” asked Hermione, cringing as the men on the other side of the road started wolf-whistling at her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Some were hostile, some cringing, some horrified; some, who when among themselves were most violent, now appeared as submissive as children. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one small tree cringing in front of the building. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “Is he going to die?” he forced himself to say, cringing at how shallow and empty it sounded. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Isidore smelled the rank, cringing body; he inhaled fear from it, fear pouring out, forming a mist. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z His face cringing and eyes closing, then opening. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Be that as it may, red-eyed and dully cringing in his doorway, Herbie could only stare helplessly at the sexual holocaust taking place in his neighbors’ pen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat down on my bed, cringing through another flush of embarrassment, and kept turning pages, going backward in time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I am cringing, literally, my entire body folding into itself. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A head was shooting upward from the ground; limbs were sprouting; a moment later, a man was standing where Scabbers had been, cringing and wringing his hands. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He’d lowered into his saddle, cringing, and now looked up, realized he hadn’t been hit, and raised the spiked club again. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I squeeze the trigger, hesitantly at first and then harder, cringing away from the gun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But instead of plugging your ears with your fingers and shutting your eyes and cringing, as you used to do whenever firecrackers went off, you handed me your bag of beads and picked up Kutti. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z A cringing crater in the sand, and the sea screaming around him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “They’re acting respectful and .. . Stiff,” I say, cringing as I say the word that was my nickname in Dauntless. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I suppressed my internal cringing at the thought of Edward and Charlie and the word boyfriend all in the same room at the same time. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “This cringing bit of filth would have seen you die too, without turning a hair. You heard him. His own stinking skin meant more to him than your whole family.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z So to all you cringing food cowards out there, I just want to leave you with a thought: Citizens of the world: Don’t let the food cowards win. 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z He’s a Hollywood heavy distracted by personal problems, slavishly devoted to Method acting, and cringingly patronizing to black actors. ‘Trouble in Mind’: A timely look at prejudice, principle 2013-07-24T23:15:10Z She iced the cake with the message “Sorry U Died!” and sampled it, cringing on-camera. America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses” 2012-10-27T22:00:00Z "Me remembering when I was trying to my Ex’s wedding dress," he captioned his brief clip, which shows him cringing in a dark room. Man modeled ex-fiancée's wedding dress to try and sell it: Video 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z You don't want them cringing, you want them laughing. A Comedy Roast needs fierce heat | James Kettle 2010-04-01T14:32:00Z Even his wife, Cath, was caught by the cameras cringing and mouthing something along the lines of, "Oh no," as her husband took the mic for his acceptance speech. BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2012: the best moments 2012-12-17T13:15:35Z Satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image famously portrayed Sir Alastair as a cringing, fawning royalist, forever trying to suck up to the nearest available member of the royal family. Obituary: Sir Alastair Burnet 2012-07-20T09:34:12Z Mr. Eisenberg plays Simon with cringing, stammering authenticity, and he also plays James Simon, a man who is Simon’s exact replica and his complete opposite. Movie Review: ‘The Double,’ a Brainteaser From Richard Ayoade 2014-05-08T21:07:49Z In laying bare Antonio’s prejudices during the first act, Thompson mockingly assumes the cringing tones of a racist caricature, a barbed and devastating choice that shows his anguished self-awareness. Review: A ‘Merchant of Venice’ That Doubles Down on Pain 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z My sister goes to work every day and cuts cancer out of people's bodies, and I can't even type the word "cancer" without cringing. "The Big C": Kooky, unsexy cancer 2010-08-14T23:01:00Z Like the sexism on “Mad Men” these details —a country club that bans Jews, a sly reference to “you people”— are intended by Mr. Glazer to be viewed cringingly through the prism of contemporary culture. ?Magic City,? Jewish Power Brokers in 1950s Miami Beach 2012-03-30T21:10:08Z New stories beyond "You're going down, Will Schuester!" and "Glee club is finished!" and Rachel cringing and weeping in tiny plaid jumpers. "Glee" falls apart 2010-04-14T18:30:00Z So, while you were cringing up a storm last year, your in-laws probably barely noticed dear old dad. Social Q?s: Please Pass the Spotlight 2010-11-18T23:39:00Z Teigen has since emerged as our reigning celebrity spectator; she walks among the stars but is positioned as their observer and judge, laughing and cringing as she goes. The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The social media mob then assumed that Salon was “cringing,” in the words of one commentator, when they published the interview. No, Daryl Hall did not “destroy” me: The right-wing social media mob’s “social justice warrior” narrative couldn’t be more ridiculous 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z I went in expecting to be cringing and angry, deploring QT's arrogant ignorance. Django Unchained: is its portrayal of slavery too flippant? 2013-01-10T21:00:04Z Some people hate that they secretly love it, and watch it every year, cringing a little even as they swoon. Chris Matthews is America’s greatest champion of ‘Love Actually.’ So we watched it with him. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Well, the town mayor is African-American, and he really is a weak fellow, who cringingly advocates collaborating with the enemy. Red Dawn – review 2013-03-14T21:40:01Z It was interesting to watch the people around him as he’s sharing his heartfelt views: They’re kind of cringing, because they’re Republicans and would prefer he hew to the party line. Kenneth Vogel on billionaires, politics and his book 'Big Money' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The film is a bold, rich portrait of a woman, but it also trains a gimlet eye on the cringing weakness of men. My streaming gem: why you should watch All Is Well 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Whatever or whoever Baldwin is playing, he’s hilarious, all silky sarcasm, cringing over with the idiocy of the young. To Rome with Love: Woody's Roman Holiday 2012-06-21T10:45:09Z Watching it again 15 years later and the combination of Rose's whispered "put your hands on me" with Jack's post-orgasmic shiver-fest has me cringing in my seat. Five of the worst movie sex scenes 2013-03-26T12:45:01Z Their efforts were alternately profound, moving and earnest — some triumphs and some cringing misses. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z The friends met a decade ago when they worked at the same terrible, NYC brunch spot, shown in a cringing scene of racism by the café's awful patrons. How "Fire Island" does Jane Austen 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z But beyond these aggrieved hordes, it can seem at times as if nearly everyone in the country is nursing wounds, cringing over slights and embarrassments, inveighing against enemies and wishing for retribution. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history,” he told reporters on Tuesday. The British Museum Reopens to a World That Has Changed 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z But it does contain that duet, and so companies feel obliged to put the work on stage every so often, regardless of its cringingly awful libretto, cardboard-thin characters and scarcely credible plot. The Pearl Fishers 2010-06-02T20:30:00Z And in an insult that sounds like it could have come straight from Exotic's lips, the pamphlet added that even Bailey's "performing lions are cringing, crawling, sneaking frauds." Joe Exotic channels the spirit of America’s 19th-century tiger kings 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z I’m way invested, cringing at missed layups and willing free throws into the net. Lonnae O’Neal: The (painful) birth of a basketball dad 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z "The fact that I was a former Olympic athlete passed everyone by," he said, cringing at the thought of cartoons showing him on a Zimmer frame. Radio review: Follow the Leader 2011-01-05T08:00:03Z In “Girls,” there is no observation, no joke, no value to the scene beyond cringing shock value. “You need to go, white man”: “Girls” hits trolling peak by pushing anti-p.c. backlash buttons 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z She is contemptuous of both her bourgeois mama and her dissolute cringing father, who is in thrall to opium and gambling. Gigola blends pulp and soft porn at London lesbian and gay film festival 2011-03-30T11:52:01Z "It was just something where we were trying to capture that moment of incredible discomfort where you're cringing for somebody else." He's still here: Phoenix rises again with 'Master' 2012-09-11T16:50:31Z In the beautiful, harrowing “Strangers,” a figure seems to attack or punish a second one who is bent over, cringing, face covered, with one large guilty, fearful eye peeking out. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z When the girl finally embarks on her ritual dance that will culminate in death, the artist-creature who's born from her efforts is a cringing Caliban figure, tormented and flayed. Akram Khan Company: iTMOi – review 2013-05-30T18:49:35Z “My hair started to curl,” said my dining companion, cringing. Choice Tables: How to Eat Well in Athens 2011-01-14T19:55:00Z Objectively speaking, the worst thing about the festive season is the cringing bonhomie of an all-office Secret Santa. Why the office Secret Santa is the worst Christmas tradition 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Imagine the cringing moments when my wealthy and unrefined MIL scrapes and stacks the plates at the table, even at fine restaurants. Perspective | Ask Amy: Client stalks therapist, combing through records 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The supporting characters are too cartoonish for my liking, and the way the hotel workers flirt with racial stereotypes is cringingly retrograde. Embracing the chill in Jimmy Buffett's 'Escape to Margaritaville' 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z To white voters cringing from accusations of racism, Wright-Rigeuer speculates, Diamond and Silk represent validation: How could Trump have a race problem when these two vibrant, independent black women like him so much? Who are Diamond and Silk? How two small-town ex-Democrats found fame as ‘warriors’ for Trump. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z When you sneak in the back at 10 past the hour While cringing beneath old Pastor Jim’s glower, Avoid like ten plagues the clatterfart — Lest everyone learn how late thou art. Style Invitational Week 1094: TAXI’s the fare in Tour de Fours XI; plus ‘rude word’ poems Besides handling the dramatic aspects with keen sensitivity, director Fine gets the period details exactly right, especially the awful 70's era wardrobes and hairstyles that leave modern audiences cringing. Review: 'Any Day' is beautifully etched drama 2012-12-12T15:16:08Z Such is the just-below-the-belt level of the low-hanging fruit that the filmmakers have chosen to harvest, in a comedy that induces cringing as often as laughter. Too bad ‘Masterminds’ wastes one of the year’s best comedy casts 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z I was cringing the whole time because I knew what was to come. ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s also a marvel if you can watch it without cringing. Charlize Theron Is Here to Save Us From Boring Action Movies 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z The series is as funny, bittersweet and keenly observed as ever — and highly recommended for anyone who doesn’t mind cringing at their own icky memories of adolescence. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Amazon and More in September 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z At times, she is just unintentionally hilarious crying and cringing because she thinks she is going mad. The worst film performances of 2021 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z With barely an exception, they were cringingly inept. Michael Buerk savages BBC's coverage of Queen's diamond jubilee 2012-12-30T14:23:22Z The resulting hype built the movie up in everyone’s mind as a classic of satire, standing up heroically to both the North Koreans and the cringing producers. Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Painfully earnest and yet cringingly self-congratulatory, they all follow Gilbert’s road to redemption — an emotional collapse, a spiritual journey, a self-affirming conclusion — in the most prosaic way possible. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Whenever you listen to those call-in shows you’re always cringing, and there’s part of you that wants to change the channel because you’re embarrassed for them. ‘The moment when it really started to feel insane’: An oral history of the Scaramucci era 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z But I kept cringing: why was I even watching such a farrago? A Tour of Tony-Nominated Choreography 2010-06-03T22:41:00Z They meet and flirt at the conference reception — Ms. Vapnyar memorably and cringingly captures the awkward, jolting, giddy and hopeful pattern that small talk makes when two people are attracted to each other. Books of The Times: ‘The Scent of Pine,’ by Lara Vapnyar 2013-12-31T21:47:12Z Jurors closely watched the footage, some visibly cringing as Floyd’s moans echoed through the courtroom. Perspective | The enduring moments of 2021, as told by Post reporters The label on a bottle of organic kombucha, a fermented tea, claims, cringingly, that its number one ingredient is “love” and that it hails from a batch “small enough to hug”. San Francisco, 50 years on from the Summer of Love 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z In other words, she is made to look as dowdy as possible, and she spends most of the first two acts cringing uncomfortably off to one side. Radvanovksy triumphs in Toronto "Aida" 2010-10-03T15:31:00Z One takeaway from these jokes, perhaps, is reassurance that though we are all pathetic and life is ridiculous, cringing together in public helps remove the sting. Lots of Love for Garry Shandling 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “Whatever featured boastful winners and cringing losers, he watched with avidity,” Jacobson writes. A sneak peek at ‘P---y,’ the soon-to-be published novel about Donald Trump 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Cast and crew alike must act badly well, a task achieved with particular cringing charm by Mr. Hearn, who flashes his upper teeth as if they were a badge of fatuity. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z In a corner, members of Ms. Clarkson’s label team weren’t huddled together, cringing — they were grinning and applauding. Kelly Clarkson Is Nobody’s Puppet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The moms are often good sports and they are usually seen chuckling — and only sometimes cringing — at their child's performance. Comedians remind viewers to "Call Your Mother" in hilarious and heartwarming Mother's Day special 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of achievement that the theater world likes to applaud, while perhaps also cringing at the fact that it has taken this long. In ‘Thanksgiving Play,’ the Pageantry of ‘Well-Meaning’ White People 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Instead of cringing in shame at her suddenly bad reputation, she defiantly decides to use it for good. | 'Easy A': Being Naughty to Be Nice, as the Rumor Mill Awaits 2010-09-16T23:39:00Z Looking back, “I’m cringing, just really embarrassed about that,” Mr. Hammond said. A Slow Burn Through All the Highs and Lows 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Inmate #06581138Z I miss my old familiar bed With cringing nymphs. Style Invitational Week 1376: Get thee to a funnery 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z I was a cringing maggot back then, and it wasn’t much fun. Stanley Bing’s Real Identity Was a Closely Guarded Secret. Until It Wasn’t. 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Over time, though, the wholesale critical rejection of Perry has softened into a begrudging acceptance, and perhaps even a cringing love. Pour One Out for Tyler Perry’s Madea 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z I knew it was bad when Zane, cringing behind a pillow, asked to go to bed. Motherlode Blog: Watching Movies With the Kids Is a Mixed Bag 2013-04-19T13:20:20Z You’ve got folks in the LGBTQ+ community who never wanted to assimilate to heteronormative cultural institutions who are cringing at the idea of dedicating more movement resources to the fight for marriage equality. Are you ready to say “I do — for now”? Revisiting the case for renewable marriage 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z “I sat cringing before M-G-M’s Technicolor production of ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ which displays no trace of imagination, good taste, or ingenuity.” Sunday Reading: Nights at the Cinema 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Showalter continues to play with comic tone and mood — he folds in some slapstick, enables the mugging and stages several cringing fantasy sequences that encourage you to laugh at Doris. Review: ‘Hello, My Name Is Doris,’ About an Older Woman’s Love for a Much Younger Man 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Before meeting Brown, I'd had an idea about where all the cringing in Confessions of a Conjuror might come from. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z But of course it does open up the cringing horror of smutty email exchanges. Spoiler alert! Fifty percent of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2012-07-09T14:02:00Z As for my own, I’ve been cringing about it ever since. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of awkwardness and cringing, and also a lot of astute observation about what it’s like to be in the middle of what you hope is the worst time of your life. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z There’s a fight-to-the-death scene involving a cattle prod that still has me cringing. Review | ‘Winter Counts’ hits the sweet spot between gritty thriller and social novel 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z But I do like the fact that the show made people appreciate the entertainment value of cringing.” ‘The Office’ Finale 2013-05-01T12:00:01Z In one horrible scene, he demands that a cringing underling bite off two of his own fingers. Jack Reacher – review 2012-12-20T15:29:01Z But the moments of emotional depth and humanity are rare — though sometimes quite touching — and the moments of cringing and overproduction are plentiful. ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’: The Review 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Of all the responses — cringing, apologetic, disbelieving, timid — Farhi’s was the most direct. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Also as usual, it’s stuffed with name actors who seem to be having a good time, which can be diverting when you’re not cringing. ‘The Gentlemen’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys, Sometimes With Guns 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z According to Hill, there’s one moment, late in the film, that she’s especially looking forward to sharing with theater audiences — potentially cringing in tandem. AFI Docs returns to the theater — carefully — after going entirely online last year 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z That sounds cringingly maudlin, but Ackerman, who served as a Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the best soldier-writers of his generation. Perspective | What books to read this fall 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Instead of cringing when Buffy cries over Angel or wants to go shopping instead of patrolling for monsters, we root for her to have that normalcy. Slaying the patriarchy: Everything I need to know I learned 20 years ago from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z I was embarrassed by my parents, our food, our language, cringing at the sound of them speaking Bengali to me in public. What’s in my name: tales that cross continents and generations 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z There are attempts at wordplay that just do not land, leaving viewers cringing. RuPaul made his sitcom-starring debut with "AJ and the Queen," and we are not amused 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s one she handles with care – and just the right amount of cringing. Yes, God, Yes: the film nailing teenage sexuality 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z A hurried ink drawing by Guercino from around 1630 is reminiscent of Goya in its portrayal of spectators at a bullfight cringing behind, and peering in unison through, a horizontally slatted barricade. 2010-01-29T06:18:00Z Lawther fares better if only because James’s cringing neediness is inherently funnier. Review: It’s ‘The End’ of the World, and You’ll Know It 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z So on those nights when mom was working, my husband recalled cringing as he watched his very-over-it father open a kitchen cupboard and reach toward its highest shelf. The great mac and cheese debate, and my go-to recipe for the holidays 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z And no cringing interactive "Feel the Sportsman" type rounds. Time to Mock off? 2010-06-16T15:46:00Z For the last few hours, I’ve been wincing, nodding, smiling, cringing, chortling and arguing out loud at my computer monitor, which can only mean only one thing: I’m perusing reader comments. Readers Respond on Bags, Airfares and Global Entry 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Anytime a phrase begins with “Make America … ” these days, it’s easy to start cringing. Make America rage again, says hybrid band Prophets of Rage 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z If you were to turn “Taipei” into a word cloud, here’s what you’d end up with: adjectives like “stranded,” “disengaged” and “fetal”; verbs like “dispersed” and “cringing”; past participles like “alienated,” “muffled,” “depleted” and “doomed.” Books of The Times: ‘Taipei,’ by Tao Lin 2013-06-04T12:00:01Z If you want a sideshow, Rihanna will gladly give you a more lurid one than what you’ve been cringing in anticipation of. Critic's Notebook: Rihanna’s Album ‘Unapologetic’ Makes Most of Her Talent 2012-11-20T18:20:20Z She is often best when she places her characters in cringingly embarrassing situations. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z It’s the boy, flickering between macho posing and cringing submission, who seems likelier to heed the disastrous message of the myth: that annihilation is the most sacred expression of love. Review: At ‘Camp Siegfried,’ a Nazi Summer of Love on Long Island 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The very notion that a novel is in everybody’s grasp, and could be knocked out as a draft in just a month, is far more likely to induce some cringing in other countries.” NaNoWriMo: Is National Novel Writing Month a Literary Threat or Menace? 2012-11-07T13:00:11Z And this knowledge makes watching “Search Party” an exercise in cringing with self-recognition while surrendering to gentle confusion over what, exactly, is going on. TBS’s “Search Party”: A holiday trip through tragedy appropriation 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z And when it does, you will feel the desire to defend her against gross attacks while also cringing at whatever she’s gotten up to now. Perspective | Is this feminism? What to make of the new shows from Hillary and Meghan. 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Through all the cringing, there’s the comfort that many have had experiences like Jim’s, but nothing so epically hapless and clumsy, and no heart-to-hearts with Dad afterwards to heighten the agony. American Pie at 20: why the raucous comedy could never be made today 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z In his new book "Berlin at War," British historian Roger Moorhouse describes in sharp detail the descent of Germany's greatest city from triumph to cringing fear of the invader. 'Berlin at War': Germany's greatest city descends into chaos 2010-12-29T23:04:04Z Turns out you can't actually die from cringing, but I came close. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mockers of children’s names, thy name is Arrogance 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Just finding a pair of shoes that Mr. Stearns “could stand on without cringing” was a long process. Have Any Point Shoes In a Man?s Size 9? 2011-06-03T18:22:07Z “I’m cringing at being sold something so blatantly.” Pickleball Is Expanding. Tennis Is Mad. 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “Like the kitten heel, I hate,” Ms. Ora said, cringing. Rita Ora is Fashion’s Latest Darling 2013-01-10T02:30:16Z The mischievous, manic clown, beckoning us to follow him to a comic three-ring circus, has shriveled to an unreadable automaton with cringing body language. Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Who can think of that scene where she reveals her self-portrait as Carlotta without cringing? Clip joint: libraries 2011-02-16T14:29:11Z He's cringing at this story, at the picture, at what you think of him, at the nice things people say about him. There's no comforting cartoonist Ivan Brunetti 2011-05-27T21:41:00Z But they remain in close emotional contact with the cringing, the alienation, the clowning, the wariness, the self-mistrust and self-satire that came with growing up poor and Black in Pittsburgh. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z “I just wanted to fit in,” she recalled, cringing at the memory. Victoria Beckham: Is She for Real? 2010-09-03T22:43:00Z Another cringingly misjudged skit titled Meet The Peeps featured an interview with the "Organic Mother Of The Year". Wednesday Night Fever gets off to a lukewarm start – TV review 2013-07-03T23:14:01Z He uses social media near-daily to threaten his political and legal opponents while cringing from any real danger behind a phalanx of taxpayer-funded security. Jim Jordan and Donald Trump's dumb week reminds us: MAGA "tough guys" are cowards at heart 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z He looks back at old episodes and is like, ‘Oh, gosh’ and cringing.” With two HGTV shows, Christina Hall finds success in going solo 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z "Mr. Trump's lawyers had to be cringing during that interview, and DOJ lawyers were no doubt taking notes," Bradley Moss, a national security attorney, told Newsweek. “Prosecutors can absolutely use that”: Ex-Trump lawyer warns him to stop talking ahead of trial 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z “If I’m not embarrassed by what I did yesterday, if I’m not cringing about what I did yesterday, I did not grow,” Ms. Bichri said. Welcome to CringeTok, Where Being Insufferable Can Be Lucrative 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Why, in an era of polarization, widespread humiliation and literal insurrection — in a nation full of so much real-life cringing — would we want to watch people simulating social discomfort? Tim Robinson and the Golden Age of Cringe Comedy 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z But, while feeling less alone with your Face Hate might take the edge off, you still may be cringing at your reflection. How to stop hating your face 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z For countries still constitutionally joined to the crown, Charles’s coronation arrived with little fanfare, and some cringing discomfort. Why So Many Nations in the King’s Realm Want to Say Goodbye 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Fortunately, the class had generated enough trust that we could express ourselves freely: cringing at some passages and laughing at others, agreeing on the book’s importance while allowing for divergent assessments of its literary merit. Building a New Canon of Black Literature 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z I was cringing at having to accept help from someone I’d been very rude to. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Housesitter plays unwilling host to backyard block party 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z "Nobody talks about that. I would not open my legs wide enough for them," she said, cringing at the memory. Abortion bans skirt a medical reality: For many teens, childbirth is a dangerous undertaking 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z “I don’t know if it was the hair, like the long hair or whatever, but I was able to watch it not cringing at my own image,” he said. For Machine Gun Kelly in ‘Taurus,’ art imitates life 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s hard to list a top 10 without cringing multiple times. Perspective | Where did all the good NFL teams go? 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z “That fear remains, but it has lessened. There is more room for gray and more benefit of the doubt and a bit of cringing about the rush-to-judgment that went on at the height of #MeToo.” After Hollywood’s Reckoning, a Fear It Was Short-Lived 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z And she went on to say that she was “cringing” at some of the staging choices. Seattle’s Sara Porkalob started a firestorm on Broadway. And she was right 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The dialogue in these cringingly hilarious scenes sparks off the page with such vibrancy that I felt as if I were in the room where it happened. Review | A.M. Homes traces the frightening (and hilarious) roots of GOP decay 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z And I’ll never forget cringing as my father’s Ghanaian schoolmate, during a visit we made to her home in Accra, showed us pictures of her tourist trip to Buckingham Palace. Opinion | We must speak the ugly truths about Queen Elizabeth and Britain’s empire 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Whatever is cringingly funny about this obsessive admiration gradually curdles under the suspicion that Barnes might share it. Review | Julian Barnes is back. But where’s the magic? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Sketch artists captured him slumped in his chair or cringing wryly. John Froines, chemist charged in ‘Chicago Seven’ trial, dies at 83 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Some of his tweets displayed the crude levity that embarrassed and had some SpaceX employees cringing, according to three people familiar with private discussions among staff. SpaceX employees denounce CEO Musk as "distraction" - letter 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Limones said he got away as quickly as he could, cringing at every shot, and calling police as soon as he could. Uvalde gunman’s early target recounts terror in sermon 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Martinez noticed Escobar cringing on a few swings Friday but said if he feels better Sunday he will be back in the lineup. Nationals ride Yadiel Hernandez’s bat, grin and bear his glove in win over Astros 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z But he seems to enjoy it more when heretics come back in cringing supplication. Opinion | Kevin McCarthy is a shining symbol of democratic decay 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z The first sign that everyone in France will have been looking out for in the debate was whether Marine Le Pen would again be as cringingly awful as she was five years ago. Macron v Le Pen: Five years of change on show in presidential debate 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Instead of ratifying the treaty, he snarled, Congress should “have the insulting cringing and ignominious Child of aristocratic Secracy removed Erased and obliterated from the archives of the Grand republick of the United States.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z We saw him berating and bullying his cringing underlings in a televised meeting. Volodymyr Zelensky Is Playing the Role of His Life 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The song presents us with a set of questions: Is cringing and turning away from a work of art that depicts persistent truths of American racial politics the most radical thing that we might do? Is There Such a Thing as Black Thought? 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z And I’m just cringing, hoping nothing bad happens.” Rams’ Akers a medical marvel in comeback from torn Achilles 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z And when we meet for the first time a new magical foe known as the Harbinger, they say, apparently without cringing under their helmet, “I am the harbinger of true truth.” Why 'Halo Infinite' campaign is the franchise's slickest and most fun adventure yet 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Some career coaches are cringing at the rush to take resignation stories public. Public Displays of Resignation: Saying ‘I Quit’ Loud and Proud 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s difficult to make progress — to get optimistic about moving beyond — when it feels like we’ve once again got one eye nervously on the news ticker, just cringing away from the next blow. Opinion | Omicron invites more dread. The country can’t afford to give in to it. 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z And how quickly I became that trope parent, cringing at the path my child is choosing. Perspective | My son wants to make video games his career. I’m trying not to hate this. 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z New York Giants players may have fans cringing a bit over the team’s latest TikTok video. Young Giants players stumped over some 90s items 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z As American troops complete their withdrawal by their Tuesday deadline, much of the nation is cringing in fear in anticipation of coming reprisals. As the Taliban Tighten Their Grip, Fears of Retribution Grow 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z I was 23 and had cringingly low self-esteem, depression and anxiety, a trifecta that led me to a therapy group that met monthly in Costa Mesa. L.A. Affairs: He cooked! For me! No guy had ever done that before 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z “Before, the Negro in the South had always looked on the defensive, cringing,” he once said. Bob Moses, 1960s civil rights leader who saw math as road to equality, dies at 86 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Speaking recently by telephone, Adelson said, “I remember cringing when I first heard that. I thought it was gross, and then when I heard what Giuliani said, I thought it was extremely gross.” Michelle Wie West Was Ready to Retire. Then She Got Mad. 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Maybe you’re cringing at the thought of going back to an office. Millennial Money: Should you become your own boss? 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Do others feel it, too, cringing every time new Normal, old Normal, any Normal is uttered? Dear Normal: Were you really that great in the first place? 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Do others feel it, too, cringing every time new Normal, old Normal, any Normal is uttered? Dear Normal: Were you really that great in the first place? 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z “I was cringing a bit,” Ms. Butler said. New Vaccine Puzzle: Who Should Get Which Shot? 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Laughing or cringing at the show, I never expected “The Office” to make me miss my office. Opinion | Getting lost in ‘The Office’ helped with isolation — and made us miss our own workplaces 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Now she was behind my shoulder, cringing at being discovered, like the teen I’d been, busted for sneaking in past curfew with a fresh dent in the family station wagon. Perspective | As the pandemic raged, my independent mother’s memory worsened, her isolation increased — and I was far away 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z He’s woozily posed as if for a cellphone shot with the paunchy boss and a cringing young woman. Review: The hidden truth of LACMA's Alex Prager show may drive you to drink 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z I find myself cringing at an image of myself as the office grandma. I Don’t Want to Be the Office Grandma 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z But even with the childhood bullies, the sexism in comedy, all the potential cringing moments that come with performing, she seems to have a remarkable lack of fear. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom: 'Ten years ago, no one talked about a cultural problem in comedy' 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Desperate for money and drawing cringingly small crowds, he finished fourth in the opening contest in Iowa and fifth the following week in New Hampshire. After four years of upheaval, election day gives voters their say 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Twitchy consolidated numerous responses with the added commentary: “Our teeth actually hurt from cringing so hard.” Anti-Trump NYU professor likens his vote to Flight 93 heroics during 9/11 terror attacks 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z I tried anyway, cringing in anticipation of blowback, but nobody even noticed. Opinion | To Learn the Truth, Read My Wikipedia Entry on Sichuan Peppers 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z After a storm of criticism, including from Johnson who accused the broadcaster of “cringing embarrassment” about British history and culture, the BBC reversed course. Johnson says we're not embarrassed to sing 'Rule Britannia' 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Following a recent row over the playing of patriotic songs at the Last Night of the Proms, Boris Johnson said it was time the UK "stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history". UK should 'retain and explain' controversial statues 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z But Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters it was "time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history". BTS 'humbled' to bag first UK chart top 10 hit 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z When you woke up and logged onto Twitter, were you cringing or laughing? Susan Orlean takes us behind her drunken Twitter whirlwind — and the wild responses 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Johnny Wright: And for me, I think the quarantine trend that is cringing for me is when anybody cuts their own hair. 'To Catch a Beautician' star Tamar Braxton recalls horrifying hair mishap: ‘I was Tamar Patch Kid’ 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z It is not only students who are cringing at the online monitoring. Keeping Online Testing Honest? Or an Orwellian Overreach? 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Turns out they had just pulled a prank on Weird Al: Knowing how cringingly awkward he was, they had sneaked in while he was showering and stolen his clothes. The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z But for now, we’ll continue to keep six feet apart and just deal with cringing at fictional characters who aren’t doing the same. Our TVs are full of characters spreading germs and now we can never unsee it 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z “His work voice!” one of my friends said, cringing. Perspective | Will coronavirus intimacy lead to a baby boom? Or a divorce tsunami? 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Her joyousness and enthusiasm were cast as somehow both insincerely pandering and cringingly over-earnest. Elizabeth Warren endured sexism at every step of her campaign | Moira Donegan 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z “Honestly, it’s a little cringing for me to see all that stuff. I’m a little speechless,” Wagner said. Wizards’ Moritz Wagner has nothing but positive memories of John Beilein, his Michigan coach 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Even now, should that song come on, I can feel myself physically cringing. 'I cringe when I hear Rihanna now': the songs Guardian writers can't listen to any more 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The Post’s editorial board lamented the “cringing abdication of Senate Republicans.” On impeachment witnesses, GOP accused of 'cringing abdication' 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z That report underlined the cringing shamefulness of the Republican decision to block Mr. Bolton’s testimony — and there will surely be more reminders in the weeks and months ahead. Opinion | The cringing abdication of Senate Republicans 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It might seem counterintuitive — especially to parents cringing at tuition bills and poetry seminars. Liberal arts education: Waste of money or practical investment? Study’s conclusions might surprise you. 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Cowboys fans must be cringing at this scenario, but then again they'd love to pound their chest over an NFC Championship appearance. How'd Your Team Do, Twitter Edition: Jason Garrett is definitely getting fired . . . right? - Golf Digest 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z “I definitely grew up feeling,” she says, before pausing and cringing, “uncomfortable with my skin color because I felt like the world around me awarded lighter skin.” Fight Against Colorism Takes On Amazon: Beauty ‘Cannot Be One Skin Color’ 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Trump’s new nationalism, it turns out, involves an awful lot of flinching and cringing. Opinion | The GOP’s galling accommodation of Trump 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Anonymous wants the focus to be on conservative goals, not on Trump, and remembers cringing when people called the President a liar, believing that the charge was “unfair” and made to “score political points.” What Does “A Warning,” by Anonymous, Really Tell Us? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z What I ended up doing, and I was cringing, was buying cherries from Harrods in London and they cost something like 60 pounds for 500 grams. Want to win 'The Great British Baking Show'? You'll need her help 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z At the Helsinki summit last year, standing next to Putin, Trump was cringing and pathetic. Opinion | An American president who doesn’t understand the meaning of America 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z “I’m sure our doctors were cringing the first time we threw the ball to him,” Kelly said. TE Cole Kmet returns, big game a plus for No. 10 Notre Dame 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Viewers of "Sticks & Stones" shared a mixed bag of reactions on social media, with some cringing at the content. Dave Chappelle says he doesn't believe Michael Jackson abuse accusers, defends Louis C.K. in new Netflix special 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z I'd guess that for many Americans, the feeling they get is somewhere between cringing and vomiting. What Does Campaign Rally Music Say About a Candidate? 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Turns out you can’t actually die from cringing, but I came close. Bestowing your child with an odd name is a parent’s right 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z The blooper you’re cringing over now will soon recede into the past, made insignificant by all the great things you do and continue to do every day. Moving on after you’ve messed up at work | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z One source described as a “Trump ally” tells Axios that “Republicans with a conscience are cringing” at Trump’s strategy of telling Reps. Republicans are "cringing" at Trump’s latest racist attacks — but they won’t criticize him publicly 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z “You spend a lifetime cringing at Prince Philip insulting people, and the one time you want him to, he’s retired,” quipped Marina Hyde, a Guardian columnist. Queen Elizabeth II, master of soft power, celebrates her 93rd birthday with a massive parade 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z You spend a lifetime cringing at Prince Philip insulting people, and the one time you want him to, he’s retired. Donald Trump is the one person who's more of a political basket case than Britain 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z "I'm cringing a little bit to say this," Chang said. Women want the office to be warmer. Science now backs them up 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z In the normal course of events, the successful demagogue demands and receives cringing deference. Opinion | In Barr, Trump has found someone who licks his boots out of principle 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z If Vlad’s advice to Violet is cringingly banal — “Sing from your heart,” he tells her — there’s something palpably real about the connection that inspires it. Review | ‘Teen Spirit’ will remind you of ‘A Star Is Born’ — except it’s even better 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Higgins first watched the footage Friday night, cringing at her brother’s peril, but then rejoicing at what followed. A blind rider fell on Metro tracks; with a train coming, bystanders sprinted to help 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Reactions among Brazilians focused largely on the symbolism of the visit, with Bolsonaro supporters calling it a vindication for the iconoclastic leader and critics cringing to see him so cozy with Trump. Bolsonaro gets Trump's praise but few concessions, riling Brazilians 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Ahrens said Ms. Warren’s “disastrous handling of her false minority claims and her refusal to apologize until now has everyone, including her own supporters, cringing at her campaign.” Amy Klobuchar announces 2020 presidential campaign, joins growing field of Democrats 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Asked what he’s looking for, he spoke as if for the thousands of Americans cringing at mean old scoreboards. The game of their lives was 25 years ago. They’re still replaying it in their minds. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z So were Head Over Heels and Escape from Margaritaville, the former spiritedly goofy, the latter cringingly awful. Broadway in 2018: male playwrights and movies dominate patchy year 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z There is a cringing quality, though, to the calls for “civility” and “respect” from people not personally invested in the whitewashing of atrocity. Why should we be civil and respectful when a political figure dies? | Alex McKinnon 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z We are all cringing at the images of migrants, including women and children, fleeing tear gas at the southern California border. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s strategy that has other Democrats cringing at the prospect of their new House majority in disarray. Democrats shun idea of Pelosi floor fight in speaker’s race 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Not so long ago it was hard to imagine Diplo cringing at anything. Diplo on his quirky new music and moving beyond life as an EDM bro - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z I am cold and wet and cringing at the memory of completely misreading one situation, raising my flag to a player who was miles onside. Hostile players, irate fans and decisions that haunt you: who’d be a football ref? 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Thomas shows up on screen glowering and cringing at the same time, looking like he simultaneously expects a vicious attack, and is ready to sink his teeth into the throat of any attacker. Netflix’s Apostle takes The Wicker Man to a radical new level 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z In a segment Thursday on his network’s “The Situation Room” show, Mr. Lemon also said that every black person watching Mr. West’s White House appearance earlier in the day was “cringing.” Don Lemon mocks Kanye West for Donald Trump ‘minstrel show’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z And for Halloween, apparently, we get a cringing pumpkin that warns us about the dangers of slicing up its fellow gourds. Beware of pumpkin lacerations this Halloween, government warns 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Reading Daniels’s book, I found myself alternately appreciating her crass and self-aware humor, and cringing at her shameless self-aggrandizement. Review | Stormy Daniels’s memoir: Funny, vulgar, brash and believable 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z If there’s meant to be an intentional dissonance here between subject matter and stylistic treatment, the film doesn’t make it clear, and the result is a film that inspires cringing rather than cowering. Lessons from TIFF on the next year in film 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Judiciary Committee Democrats, some of whom had their own histories of sexual misconduct, effectively allowed him to avoid close questioning, visibly cringing at Hill’s accusations. A generation after Clarence Thomas, the Senate heads for another battle over judging allegations of sexual misconduct 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Put a great song lyric on the page, and it may provoke the same cringing reaction as teenage-diary entries and bad writing in dialect. New Sentences: From Mitski’s ‘Two Slow Dancers’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z “I always like to remember Chuck that way, cringing in my closet, dressed in his formal blue uniform, his sword at his side….” McCain reminisced in public. McCain to be buried near best friend at US Naval Academy 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z “Everyone was cringing because Japan and China are rivals, and the Japanese and the Chinese are nervous about the president tilting too far towards the other side,” that person said. Trump’s foreign policy faux pas: Nepal mispronounced as “nipple,” Bhutan as “button”: r... 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z If he was cringing inside, no one could tell. UCLA's Chip Kelly: a private man in a very public role 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Mr Nelson, from the financial services consultancy The Lang Cat, admits he's now cringing with embarrassment about his message, but it hasn't stopped him writing them. Would you quote Rick Astley in your out-of-office? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Instead of cringing at what we used to call B.O., Readers Respond to the 7.15.18 Issue 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z But one minute in, I start to look away, cringing. Why I’d never do a TED talk (and it’s not just because they’re named after a man) | Julie Bindel 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Republicans were said to be cringing, yet they did not move against the president, keenly aware that he remains immensely popular among grassroots voters. 'Trump derangement syndrome': the week America went mad 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Off-putting humor — especially from George’s character — recurs through the film, though some like-minded viewers may find themselves laughing more than cringing. Review: Wrestling comedy ‘Heels’ fails to reconcile big heart with off-putting humor 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Casual royal observers such as myself barely noticed the Queen’s fashion choices during Trump’s visit, because we were too busy cringing at Trump’s behaviour around her. Was the Queen sending coded messages to Donald Trump via her brooches? Absolutely 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z And so our president, who shows how tough he is by abusing migrant children, was a cringing coward before a dictator. Opinion | Trump replaces national pride with personal vanity 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “Stop! Please! Why?!?” they asked, cringing, each time. According to the teenage experts, 'Eighth Grade' gets it right 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z I have to resist listing all the activities crammed into the pages of my favorite wimmelbooks because they would come across as cringingly mundane. Opinion | What Adults Can Learn From Dutch Children’s Books 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z We can be frank and outspoken without being reckless or abusive, polite without cringing, we can attack racialism and its evils without ourselves fostering feelings of hostility between different racial groups. Opinion | ‘Hope Is a Powerful Weapon’: Unpublished Mandela Prison Letters 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z When I watch him, I find myself cringing from disgust, secondhand embarrassment, and a sense of impending disaster. Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The app introduced a fatal self-consciousness: To my usual audience of online friends was added my own future self, cringing from a distance. Letter of Recommendation: Timehop 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z “It’s 20,000 people cringing together when it goes into our net. It pulls you in. It bonds people.” Perspective | I wanted to be in on #ALLCAPS mania, but I needed a fan’s help 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z He issued a cringing tweet May 13 about wanting to save Chinese jobs. America’s clown-show negotiations are not funny 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Professional women, nearly all scanning smartphones, balance bags on their knees, in the crook of their arms, on their shoulders, or, cringingly, between their shoes on the germy floor. We Found the Perfect Women’s Work Bags 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Some are cringing over the suggestion that instead of mechanical clock faces - more costly and susceptible to operational problems - digital screens could display a traditional clock face look and perhaps push ads to raise revenue. Editorials from around New England 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z When it’s pointed out that she’s more than twice his age, the intended laughs fail to arrive, supplanted by a cringing wave of unease. Review | Can Melissa McCarthy make a good movie anymore? ‘Life of the Party’ argues no. 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z You start watching it behind your hands, cringing – and by the end you’re charmed by the sight of someone just thoroughly, unabashedly enjoying herself. Amy Schumer: ‘I’m not invincible. I need to slow down’ 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z But right now I’m cringing at a food fight. Cringing at the Comey roadshow 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “I’m like internally cringing just thinking about that. That was a prank gone awry. Do not use Twitter as a format for pranks,” she said. Becky Sauerbrunn reflective as US sets sights on World Cup 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z I realize there might be some of you — women, in particular — who are cringing. A revitalized Tiger Woods is very very good for the sports world 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z But he’s the one cringing and cowering to keep the gun lobby’s favor. Opinion | Trump’s surrender 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Whether you were grinning or cringing, you were definitely watching. Without Michael Bennett, Richard Sherman, Seahawks certainly became a quieter team 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z “It’s the choice between contemptuous cringing and compassionate cringing, but directed toward yourself. You bring back the pushed-away piece of you.” Review | Feeling awkward? Don’t worry, no one’s looking at you 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z As the NFL spent the season cringing at what might come next, the man who started the tumult seemed to lose interest. President Trump is over the NFL (mostly). But the league still is feeling the fallout. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z They may seem hyper-aroused or vigilant, ever alert and cringing, braced to flee or fight. Treatment Offers Hope for Imprisoned California Siblings 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z They include some wanting bigger tax breaks for many businesses but others cringing over the $1.4 trillion — or more — that the measure is projected to add to budget deficits over the next decade. Prospects brighter for tax overhaul, success not assured 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The photographer in question was not hurt, so when you finish cringing, it’s OK to laugh at this: MLB Umpires are the Snowflakes of the Week - Golf Digest 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z In a TED talk recorded last year, Iyer chastised an audience for cringing as he discussed his ordeal. India's first LGBTQ radio show aims to broaden the country's concept of love 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z She returned strongly on the first rendition of the familiar chorus, but one couldn’t help cringing just a bit at the lyrics lapse — either forgotten or simply unpracticed. CONCERT REVIEW: Aretha Franklin still has the voice, but forgets some lyrics in concert 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z He then, cringing, cut into the prepared pie with fork and knife. Watch Gordon Ramsay Suffer By Eating Pineapple Pizza 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z But that’s a good thing, and you find yourself cringing and laughing in equal measure as they negotiate how the weekend is going to go. Review: A questionable murder derails ‘Rough Night’ fun 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z I sometimes find myself cringing at things Trump says, wishing he would behave more like a typical politician. Opinion | Our town’s newspaper was mocked for endorsing Trump. Here’s what we think now. 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z "Free speech comes with a responsibility to speak up when folks use that word. Me just cringing last night wasn't good enough," he said. Comedian Bill Maher apologises for racial slur on live TV - BBC News 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z “But free speech comes with a responsibility to speak up when folks use that word. Me just cringing last night wasn’t good enough.” Bill Maher under fire for using N-word during HBO broadcast 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z And if that’s the case, there must be more cringing around the president than we realized. Blessed be the tattletales in the Trump White House 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Democrats said he was probably still cringing from being roasted by President Obama at the 2016 edition. White House Correspondents' dinner: Six takes from the event - BBC News 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Waking up in the night cringing at small talk, blurted inanities, perceived slights. Rei Kawakubo, Interpreter of Dreams 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Still, Mr. Rascoff could not help cringing at some of the lavish costs of their concerts. Joseph Rascoff, Who Brought Prudent Money Management to Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 71 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Complications, of the cringingly self-sabotaging and often very funny variety, ensue. With help from Melissa McCarthy, life imitates art as three 'Nobodies' from the Groundlings get their shot on TV Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z “I was cringing and felt really bad for him,” Morgan says of Bradley. Alex Morgan: ‘If Fifa start respecting the women’s game more, others will follow’ | Donald McRae 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z That those conservative jitters proved unfounded does not undermine my point about the chasm between Washington’s wary embrace of the 40th president and its cringing at the prospect of the 45th. Trump needs to get over his victory 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Such campaign promises appealed to many blue-collar voters who traditionally align with Democratic lawmakers, and left small-government Republicans cringing over the president-elect’s apparent embrace of deficit spending to finance government job creation. Democrats look to make some deals with Trump — and divide the GOP in the bargain 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z All of this could have been fun, were it not for the impenetrable plot, absurd dialogue and cringingly subservient female characters. Lazarus: ‘A jukebox musical for people who are too hip for We Will Rock You’ 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z "I thought it was crazy that kids weren't taught about taxes and what to do with their money before they leave High School," he says, cringing at his "dorky" hobby. How The Chainsmokers went from novelty act to chart dominance - BBC News 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z What few of us seem to realize: The boys-will-be-boys behavior, which increasingly invites cringing, doesn’t originate with them. The Fear of Having a Son 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “Women should be revered,” said Some Republicans, and we women keep cringing. Jill Soloway on Donald Trump, Locker Rooms and Toxic Masculinity 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z You could sense dread in the crowd — and see cringing eyes among the Clinton staff — over what would become of this moment. ‘I’m the Last Thing Standing Between You and the Apocalypse’ 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z It took time for this to develop, from initial stunned surprise and shock, to wincing, to painful cringing, to mute button. How Much Is Donald Trump Hurting the G.O.P.? Here’s a Way to See 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Other former aides have found less occasion for whimsy, cringing through an election that has felt interminable and ugly. Bill Clinton, After a Year of Restraint, Unleashes an Impassioned Self-Defense 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The dashing, tattooed socialite of the three-quarter line is after all both a back and, with apologies for such a cringingly dadlike lapse into badly misused slang, pretty “fly”. Alex Corbisiero takes front row seat as NBC shows English Premiership rugby 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z But Don't Breathe is still a thrilling experience that effectively puts the audience in the protagonists' place: uncertain, cringing, afraid to even breathe because of the potential consequences. Don't Breathe is a ruthlessly efficient, claustrophobic terror machine 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Sunday brought a late implosion, the cringing kind of loss that sends onlookers to social media in search of updates on trade news. Bullpen’s implosion sinks Nationals in loss to Padres 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z For a public whose previous images of war had been based on illustrations of strapping Tommies chasing cringing Huns, it was a revelation. Battle of the Somme: How Britain learned the truth - BBC News 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Robinson looked on as Shepherd, cringing, slurped one down. A radical approach to gun crime: paying people not to kill each other | Jason Motlagh 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s why you hear Trump wax on so cringingly about his daughter Ivanka’s attractiveness: By all evidence, it’s the highest possible compliment he can imagine giving a woman. What Rendell and Trump have in common 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z What makes Dean a loser isn’t his awkwardness, his sublimated mourning, his arrested development, or even his cringing attempts to avoid reality by living through his cartoons. Three types of onscreen losers at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z For those cringing at the discord and Trump's unanticipated political rise, there were no easy answers Saturday. In a Republican presidential primary filled with extraordinary moments, a 24-hour stretch that began Friday night stands above them all 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z For those cringing at the discord and Trump’s unanticipated political rise, there were no easy answers Saturday. Trump rally sparks extraordinary stretch in Republican race 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Both Sanders and Clinton have also made comments that induced cringing among many reproductive rights activists. The question the Democratic candidates haven't been asked 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z During the playoffs, he put his children to bed about 8 p.m. and watched the games, cringing whenever a situation came up in which he would usually be called upon to pitch. Two Mets Left-Handers Enter Camp With Scars and Motivation 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Depending on the slant, on whether filmmakers are laughing at them or cringing for them, losers can make great comedy or great drama. Three types of onscreen losers at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z For all of her avowed cynicism, Miss Griffin bears a remarkably sunny disposition, often laughing at her own pessimism and her penchant for turning audience members into the cringing embarrassed. Kathy Griffin says stand-up comedy remains a sexist industry 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z And just when you think you’re done cringing, Azalea rides around Mumbai on an elephant dressed as a Hindu goddess with her ornate crown and gold bodysuit. Coldplay: only the latest pop stars to misrepresent India as an exotic playground 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The search for a good basketball poem for Pat at first was a cringing exercise. Phil Jackson, Pat Summitt, Mary Karr and a special triangular connection 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z “I’m holding her feet and I’m counting her reps and cringing the entire time,” Mr. Langowski says. Why You Can Stop Doing Sit-Ups 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The three of them navigate the dating scene, and their familial relationships, with cringingly funny results. Here are 4 promising new TV shows that may catch Golden Globe voters' eyes 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z I can still remember cringing at W's repeated use of "crusade" shortly after 9/11 in a televised address. Overrating Outrage in Obama’s Response to Paris Attacks 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z At Yale, cringing capitulation has been the order of the day. The Rise of the College Crybullies 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z "Don't do that. No. No," he said, practically cringing at the concept of a farewell tour. 'Laker for life' Kobe Bryant says he won't sign elsewhere 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z The result is a new playbook for reform and an odd scramble of traditional battle lines, with national drug reform groups hoping for victory but also cringing at the tactics used to achieve it. With Buddie as mascot, pot goes to the polls in Ohio 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z We are cringing supplicants for Chinese capital – as we claim to be for Saudi “intelligence”. Xi Jinping visit: Chinese president at Buckingham Palace for lunch with Queen - live 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Lincoln Chafee’s whine about casting a regrettable Senate vote because he had just arrived in Washington and his father had died was cringingly pathetic. Clinton cinches the nomination 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z I was cringing, but I figured that the film would show a couple of times and that would be that. Hair! Despair! Nightmares! What happened to 1980s metal also-rans? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “I looked at it the first year when I came here,” Karasev said, cringing, “and it was double the price of Jersey.” Even Before Opening, Training Center Has the Nets Feeling a Weight 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Champaign schools officials are cringing in anticipation of a legislative decision to rewrite the state’s school aid formula. Excerpts from editorials by Illinois newspapers 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z We are cringing supplicants for Chinese capital – as we claim to be for Saudi “intelligence”. Xi Jinping visit: Chinese president at Buckingham Palace for lunch with Queen - live 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Thomas said he’s not cringing at the thought of Sanders returning punts, either. Broncos finally at full strength and just in time 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The boy joins a short, cringing list of art fumblers. Boy trips in museum and punches hole through million-dollar painting 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z After years of negotiation and appeasement, the world has lost patience now with Mr Putin’s judo politics and his cringing, hard man photo opportunities. Alexander Litvinenko lawyer points finger at Putin as inquiry ends 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z But if it happened to all of us, to humanity en masse, then there would not be enough space for our collective cringing. Is the Ashley Madison hack another step towards a post-embarrassment world? | Rebecca Nicholson 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z An image like Gul’Dan chanting “life, death, life, death,” in front of the Dark Portal leaves me cringing. Will 'Warcraft' Be The Next Great Videogame Movie Flop? 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Tommy Craggs, above, who stepped down as executive editor, said he stood by the article and accused the site’s managers of “cringing.” Your Monday Evening Briefing 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z “Do you hear me cringing?” he said in an interview last year when asked if accepted the label “democratic socialist.” Bernie Sanders: Socialists sharply divided as Sanders makes run 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z “The May jobs number is pointing in the direction of a more likely interest-rate hike. The market is cringing at that idea,” said Frank Davis of LEK Securities in New York. Stocks fall on Greece, rate-hike worries 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z All this came after a week in which Baffert relished the positivism around his trainees American Pharoah and Dortmund, while cringing at suggestions they would dominate. American Pharoah delivers Derby win 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z “I was cringing, like, ‘C’mon Seth,’” joked senior running back Storm Woods. Oregon State fans get first look at Andersen, Collins 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z At Westerville South High School in Ohio, Jackson’s mother said she would sit in the bleachers cringing as the parents around her disparaged her son’s skills. Wisconsin Guard’s Passion for Basketball Catches Up With His Pedigree 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z He showed up to the Lakers' training facility up with a hairdo that had teammates and coaches cringing. Lakers' Nick Young has small fracture in knee, could return this season 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z There’s even an App - parents are cringing at the name Good2Go - which is intended to put the brakes on hookups long enough to clarify intentions. New Jersey colleges struggle to deal with issue of rape 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z He offered as evidence various portions of my résumé — including, most cringingly, my SAT scores. Why does it take a famous father to stop cyber-trolls? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z It must be unbearable waking up each day and cringing with despair upon remembering correctly that the nightmare is real. Why did Brian Williams do it? 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z It replays the interviews as the soldiers — now graying, wrinkled men — sit alongside, sometimes closing their eyes or cringing a bit. Disillusioned by War, Israeli Soldiers Muted in 1967 Are Given Fuller Voice 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z If you often wake up cringing at the thought of the workday ahead, you’ve got a problem. Time To Shun Corporate Life To Start Your Own Business? A 3 Step Formula On How To Do It 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z This kind of cringing terror of giving offense is not just on college campuses. Chris Rock, campus conservatism, ‘The Interview’ and the outrage economy 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Rather than cringing at the next beetle or wasp in your way, you might want to thank them—for helping to keep city streets clean. Big Apple's Insects Eat Streets Clean 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z But in all, the summit had Australians cringing more than cheering. Australia left to cringe once again at a leader's awkward moment 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z “There’s so much, ‘oh my gosh, I’m hooked, I’m addicted’ that at some point you feel yourself cringing a bit,” she said. ‘Serial’: An investigative journalism podcast becomes a cultural obsession How It Tricks Us Ever finished reading a book you knew was awful 50 pages in, or watched a three-hour movie even though you began cringing in the first 15 minutes? 7 Brain Biases That Could Affect Your Investing Strategy -- And How To Outsmart Them 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Which means that for the third time in five years, Fox executives are probably cringing. Boring San Francisco Giants Threaten World Series Ratings - Again 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He remembers seeing James Brown in his prime and being electrified, then cringing 25 years later watching the soul master struggle to get up from his signature splits. John Mellencamp and his impressive co-authors 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z They huddled in a small saddle, cringing as lightning flashed through the clouds. Under Rainier’s crater, a natural laboratory like no other 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z I have used it in the past, on a few occasions , and I’m cringing to see it. Stephen King has named his most hated expressions. What are yours? 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z But all the cringing and skepticism in the world hasn’t stopped the idea of “Women Against Feminism” from being taken seriously by at least some in the media. Feminism makes women 'victims'? I think you've mistaken us for the sexists 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z When Geale went down in the second round, Woods turned to me and another writer and asked, “Are you guys cringing, too? Whenever Geale goes to the ropes, it’s cringe time.” Gennady Golovkin: The Smiling Champion 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The hoopster will writhe in pain, leaving the audience caught between fascination and the cringing impulse to look away. A New Jersey Doctor’s Quest to Build a Better Basketball Sneaker 2014-03-21T18:55:00Z Open limping and cringing for 91 holes with a blown knee and fractured leg. Boswell: Tiger Woods’ drive to catch Jack Nicklaus might have undermined his long-range game 2014-03-05T19:46:06Z After several more failed attempts, I finally turned the key, cringing as I pushed open the door. Schrodinger’s Rats and The Search for Ultimate Reality [Excerpt] 2014-01-31T15:00:00Z Watching , I found myself cycling between appreciation and cringing, almost in time with the action. Astronaut: Gravity Gets Me Down 2013-10-02T21:03:25Z After a restless night, hundreds of NFL players nervously checked their cellphones Saturday morning, cringing every time it buzzed. Patriots cut Tebow as NFL teams get down to 53 2013-09-01T01:12:37Z She was always fretting over him, it seemed, cringing whenever he moved. Beyond the Finish Line 2013-07-08T02:31:11Z What a coward she’d been, ducking behind him to save herself, grabbing at him desperately, cringing, crouching, whimpering like a terrified child. Joyce Carol Oates: “Mastiff.” 2013-06-24T04:00:00Z The next 24 hours were spent cringing, peering through my fingers at my dating profile, while my friend at work repeated in a less than convincing tone: "He might just not notice?!" Internet dating: does an innocent Facebook check make you a stalker? 2013-06-06T08:00:56Z Speaking of instinctively hating the new: I find myself already cringing at the prospect of Park Avenue in Midtown lined with Shanghai-style skyscrapers. City Room: Big City Book Club - Discussing 'Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center' 2013-04-29T17:45:42Z How do I graciously be a part of their lives while inwardly cringing at another over-the-top celebration? Wall Street bonuses rise 8% for 2012 but industry warns of looming layoffs 2013-02-26T17:57:32Z Moore, cringing a bit at the thought of injury, reluctantly agreed. Oregon 3-sport star sets sights on track team 2013-02-13T08:26:09Z Photograph: Frank Baron/The Guardian "I don't even want to go in … I'm just standing out here, cringing." Furby shortage causes despair for Christmas shoppers 2012-12-21T15:36:11Z Blind Date takes me back to watching TV with my mum and dad and experiencing exactly the same emotions you get with Take Me Out: the cringing, the pre-scripted lines. Zac Purchase: 'I was part of a fantastic team and Games' 2012-12-14T00:06:00Z Those describing the second-round tie, to be played in Milton Keynes the weekend of 1 December, as a grudge match or – cringingly – "the Dons derby", have been quickly put right by AFC Wimbledon fans. AFC Wimbledon fans find FA Cup tie at MK Dons too hard to stomach 2012-11-14T14:09:16Z People often approached them with a cringing sense of inferiority. Viewpoint: Egypt's revolution of the mind 2012-11-13T01:09:00Z "I used to look like a factory worker," said Ratphila, now 30, cringing at an old snapshot of her smiling former self. Biases on beauty draw Thais to illegal surgery 2012-10-25T17:50:21Z Listening and cringing were three of the adult survivors who put him behind bars, three grown men who confronted the man they called “Touchdown Jer” when he shoplifted their souls as children. Jerry Sandusky sentencing brings an end to sordid tale, but no closure for victims 2012-10-09T22:20:15Z “There were dozens of guys that were just cringing for her,” Havlicek says. Ina Drew, Jamie Dimon, and JPMorgan Chase’s $6 Billion Mistake 2012-10-03T09:00:22Z Some outside researchers are cringing at the notion that cancer can be conquered by one institute. MD Anderson Launches $3 Billion 'Moon Shot' to Fight Cancer 2012-09-21T20:02:00Z So in April, when Joe Flacco defended comments from his agent about his being among the best in the game, the responses seemed to vary from laughing to cringing. The Fifth Down: Week 3 N.F.L. Matchups: I'm a Good Quarterback 2012-09-21T16:47:35Z Stephen Hamblin, the executive director of the American Junior Golf Association, recalled cringing many years ago when a board member boldly predicted the association would be running multiple tournaments in a week. Junior Golf Tours Cater to Youths Pursuing Scholarships 2012-08-18T17:35:19Z Robinson says the most cringingly glitchy of the spyware programs that he tested was also one of the most expensive, with a $350 fee per year. How To Bust Your Boss Or Loved One For Installing Spyware On Your Phone 2012-07-27T17:06:07Z But there are other dimensions to the Games that should be embraced without cringing. London 2012: suppress your cynicism and let the Games commence 2012-07-25T20:00:01Z But on returning to my row, I saw my mother and aunt slumped in their seats, cringing with embarrassment. City Room: Metropolitan Diary: Chasing the Wrong Star 2012-07-17T12:07:21Z Now it seems all they will get is a cringing towards political correctness. IHT Rendezvous: Girl Guides Oath in Australia Deletes God and the Queen 2012-07-08T04:14:57Z He said he was "appealing to Britain's better instincts" and that restoring the sculptures willingly now would be better than a "cringing climb-down" some time in the future. Stephen Fry wins on Elgin Marbles 2012-06-11T21:30:22Z So I'm sure a little piece of them was cringing. Cards give up 3-run HR to Van Slyke in 6-5 loss 2012-05-21T05:24:08Z You silly girl," he said cringingly, "what rubbish have you got into your head? Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Our host soon appeared, cringing and bowing like the menial that he was. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z That for the man whose cringing is a disgrace! Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z That poignant reflection has become a cringingly prophetic passage early in Leaf's book. Ryan Leaf's life of lies a tragic part of fallen football hero 2012-04-08T03:13:44Z He was high and overbearing toward his equals, harsh and unkind to his inferiors, while he was cringing and sycophantic toward his superiors. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z "Not I, neither will you; I will have no such cringing ways done within my knowledge." Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-04T02:00:58.490Z This was the hero whose cunning and whose war genius had caused sceptered men to grovel at his feet, and had made stubborn republican Rome his cringing servant. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Take a respectful, but, at the same time, manly tone; and, while you acknowledge the obligation a favorable answer will confer, do not adopt the cringing language of a beggar. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z He followed the direction of her hand, but saw nothing except scared faces and cringing figures. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z Always and always that ignoble bowing and scraping and cringing. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z And even when it momentarily shone, many fans did not notice because they were too busy cringing in front of the television, faces in palms. India Ink: When Will India Get the Cricket Board it Deserves? 2012-03-27T10:39:07Z Much depends upon character; here and there we find some toy dogs which have mean, cringing spirits, and these are generally the ones which won't go out in rain. A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them 2012-03-25T02:00:07.687Z "It is all there, sir," he said, cringing. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z Master Crafty Eyes looked up, and doffing his cap humbly--for the voice was a voice of authority--went cringing to the speaker. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z Where you would see the servile Tartar-subdued Chinamen continually cringing, the Ti-pings exhibit, even in the face of death, nothing but the erect, stately carriage of free men. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z The country squire damns a court life, and would not go cringing and creeping to a drawing-room for the best place the king has at his disposal. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z The clock-maker, cringing almost to the boards, crept across the floor, and producing the key from his pocket, set it in the lock. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z You know, Archbishop, I’m not a particular fan of the church and I find myself often cringing in some of the positions and teachings of the church. City Room: Cardinal Dolan Gives Reasons to Donate to St. Patrick's Cathedral's Renovations 2012-03-17T15:23:56Z But there he always was, pale, obstinate, cringing, and waiting. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Have done, man, with cringing and fawning, and trembling at big words. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z In spite or because of all this, they bear a very bad character as sullen, avaricious, abominable dissemblers, cringing or domineering according to circumstances. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z There is flattery in it of a painfully cringing tone. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z He describes himself as a reluctant candidate, cringing when he hears the word “politician.” Ron Barber, Reluctant but Loyal, Agreed to Seek Giffords?s Seat 2012-03-10T01:42:57Z The valet exploits his master’s weaknesses until he turns the tables: the story ends with a cringing Fox ministering to a lordly Bogarde. Schumpeter: Slaves to the smartphone 2012-03-08T16:00:34Z And with pitiless finger she pointed to the old plotter, who, sneaking, and cringing in the background, had already his eye on the door and his mind on retreat. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z Two blazing eyes met mine, then rolled around on the cringing throng; and a voice like the voice of the dead broke out: "I am come to the judgment of this man whom you burn!" Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Because three weeks ago the N.B.A. was an injury-riddled mess, full of bad teams going nowhere, with nearly everyone cringing at the prospect of what might next leap from LeBron James’s mouth. Leading Off: Lin?s Wild Ride Hits South Beach 2012-02-23T14:47:19Z They shambled forward until they neared des Ageaux, who was writing at an improvised table not far from the Vicomte; then cringing they saluted him. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Gerard drew swiftly back: but in that instant he heard the soft murmur of voices and saw a group of persons cringing before some hidden figure. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Feeling the pressure from without, the ministers, who had been accustomed to approach their master like slaves, cowed and cringing in his presence, grew bolder, and presumed to speak a little more plainly. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Shame to those who inspire cringing in beasts! Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z She had expected him to rage and threaten her; his cringing manner disconcerted her. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The men are courteous without being cringing, and the women are kind and jolly, and come freely and unveiled to my tent without any obtrusiveness. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z He came round to the road with her; saw her cross the road cringing with fear, then glide away, then turn into an erect shadow, then melt away in the storm. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z As long as we harbor such opinions of infinity; as long as we imagine the heavens to be filled with such tyranny, just so long the sons of men will be cringing, intellectual cowards. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:59.847Z He will neither bow nor cringe, nor accept bowing and cringing from others. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Does he seek to enhance his glory by receiving the adulation of cringing slaves? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z I have before said that he has a certain gentlemanliness and even dignity, and his manner was neither cringing nor familiar. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The men who say this should remember that their own ancestors were once cringing, frightened, helpless slaves. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling,—position by cringing. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Very respectfully, almost cringingly, Wolf stood aside for Lad to pass out. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z In Indianapolis, that means cringing at a giant set of Roman numerals in Monument Circle and a fresh round of “oh my goshes” about the standoff. Leading Off: Even in a Super Bowl Week, It?s Still Peyton?s Place ? Leading Off 2012-01-31T14:50:41Z But once he had unlatched it, once it stood open to the hillside and the sky, and he free in the embrasure, he lost all his cringing aspect. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z Flunkey, flung′ki, n. a livery servant: a footman: a mean, cringing fellow.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z I found a small girl, cringing beneath a comforter. At War Blog: In One Girl's Story, a Test of Women's Rights in Afghanistan 2012-01-10T19:14:25Z "It's a bit odd, isn't it," suggested the Master, "that he went for you, like that, just now; when, this morning, he slunk away from your blow, in cringing fear?" Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Williams fell with a shriek, and stayed there for several minutes cringing as a WTA trainer tended to her. Straight Sets: Serena Williams Withdraws From Brisbane 2012-01-05T15:08:10Z And for a moment she had sat cringing inside. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z There was a certain cold menace in his tone, and the man threw him a glance malevolent, yet cringing, much like that of a beaten dog, subdued against his will. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z A smile suddenly beamed all over his dusky features, his airs of lordship quite forsook him, and he lifted his hat to the great man with a cringing salutation. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Pacquiao, deathly afraid of needles, cringing as Dr. Jeffrey Roth sewed 28 stitches to close the gash that ran diagonally through the champion’s right eyebrow. 2011 Scrapbook: Memories From the Year in Sports 2011-12-31T22:52:01Z There was nothing cringing about him, in spite of the fact that he was trapped. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z As a child, he can remember cringing at the site of spilled coffee grounds and in high school, finding it strange the other boys didn’t like to clean their rooms. Idaho man builds museum dedicated to cleaning in lifelong fight against grit, grime 2011-12-28T19:49:33Z This told to Stanley at midnight roused all his wrath, and he poured a perfect storm of abuse on the cringing Arab, and he took occasion to overhaul his conduct from the start. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z All the gruff surliness and cringing hatred of the expression with which he regarded the Evil One on the raft had disappeared, and he smiled with benign content on his domestic surroundings. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z How it is one cannot tell, but the brand of servitude, with the coarseness or cringing it engenders, fades from sight on the broad prairie. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z His ambition must have been more gratified with occupying one of the first posts, even amongst beggars, than of cringing in an infamous and dishonourable capacity, under avaricious, haughty and disdainful priests. Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul 2011-11-24T03:00:45.230Z It gives us permission to be moved by “Black and Blue” without cringing at a lyric like “I’m white inside, but that don’t help my case.” | Connecticut: ?Ain?t Misbehavin? Staged at Long Wharf Theater ? Review 2011-11-13T01:05:46Z "Long live the Emperor!" said the cringing secretary. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The Zaptiehs spoke roughly to him and he gave a cringing reply. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z If the partners despised us for our cringing before them they were right; we were a despicable set. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Small businesses in Florida are cringing over a new increase in workers’ compensation rates. You?re the Boss Blog: A Weekly Roundup of Small Business News 2011-10-31T11:00:13Z "I'm sorry to say it is, sir," he mumbled, cringing and quivering. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z Apart from them stood a small but important man, frowning over a waxen tablet which a slave had cringingly handed him. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z There was no shortage of fighters willing to claim they saw Gaddafi, who long vowed to die in battle, cringing below ground, like Saddam eight years ago, and pleading for his life. Gaddafi killed in hometown, Libya eyes future 2011-10-21T01:06:10Z Alice, cringing, dropped her head on her breast with a broken word. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z If Manu were to visit Bengal now, his indignation and amazement would know no bounds in witnessing the sacerdotal class reduced to the humiliating position of a servile, cringing and mercenary crowd of men. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z By hypocrisy, intrigue, and cringing sycophancy, these unscrupulous monks obtained rights and privileges enjoyed by no other ecclesiastical corporation. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Wright, Marcy, and their successors in New York politics, almost up to the present day, certainly carried cringing subserviency to the South to a pitch that was fairly sublime. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z Realizing the rest of the group was cringing at my line of questioning, I moved on. Washington nickname not hailed by all 2011-10-01T21:58:10Z An underhand, double-tongued, cringing, vile lot they were in their libellous attacks upon Dr. Merzbach. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z In great part the Indians would become a cringing sudra caste, tilling the poorer lands and confined to the menial or repulsive occupations. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z The butler nodded to some one just behind him, and a nondescript, undersized man cringingly entered the room and stood hesitatingly by the threshold. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z He was not gone long, and in another minute Alfred Croucher was cringing before them like a beaten cur. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z Throughout the whole business Davis’s tone had been one of contemptible cringing and meanness. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z His martial excitement, his keen zest, his bravado collapsed; his sword dropped till its point touched the ground; his flaming uniform took on cringing folds. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Surely God is not supposed to be an Eastern despot, desiring this kind of cringing at his feet. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The dog, which had backed away with the bread, came hesitating, cringing forward, dropping its hind-quarters in doubt, as dogs do, advancing towards the new nugget of bread. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The big man waited, his nerves taut, his muscles quivering and cringing at the thought that any instant a bullet sent at him by Taylor might strike him. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z The Governor stretched his hand and tilted the shade of the lamp, so that its light fell full upon the latter, lighting the cringing face of the stool-pigeon before it. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z At length the Kentish man being wearied, falls a prey to the invitation of a taverner, who with a cringing bow, and taking him by the sleeve:—“Sir,” saith he, “will you our wine assay?” A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z The two following phrases breathe the same cringing spirit, as though the main duty towards one's neighbour were to submit to him. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z "Last year at this time, he was limping around and cringing as he was running with the football," said Carroll, who as a result found it hard to evaluate Washington's skills. Seahawks' kick-return specialist not worried about rule change 2011-08-18T03:59:05Z Now, however, she felt a sudden, cringing dread of him. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Physical ills are always lessened by courageously facing them and are always increased by cringing before them. Health Through Will Power 2011-08-18T02:00:20.367Z You went out with the sun, Not in the cringing ebb, not in the grey And tremulous twilight, when each lonely one To its last loneliness must creep away. Poems 2011-08-16T02:00:47.467Z One longs to shake them all, and tell them to stand up like men and women, instead of cringing there like cowards, whining about their vileness. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z To this piece of “plain writing,” the Reformers, probably at the instigation of the Lord James, sent a submissive and cringing answer. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z And the worst of it was, I was outside Snarley with my white legs gleaming in the open water, while his cringing form was tucked away half hidden by the reeds. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z Hugh’s bondage and suffering had made him neither cringing nor cruel, and his freedom had come in time to permit the full development of a large and generous heart in a robust and healthy body. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z "But I am not a stranger," artfully pursued the cringing Huckins, making himself look as benevolent as he could. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z Of course, after all this preface, come cringing confessions of sin. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z He has just been put to the torture, and with bones all loosened by the rack is cringing and trembling before the arbiters of life and death. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z “I’m not the man to eat the parson’s leavings,” said Fullerton, angrily, “nor yet the man to go cringing and touching my hat to him in hopes of getting a harness-mending order.” Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z |
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