I remember when this show opened and could not wait to see it, but found myself cringing from the cheese of it. From Wordnik.com. [New Footage from The Adventures of Conan Live Show!] Reference
These may be called the cringing canvass and the flouting canvass. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.] Reference
Breathing not, she only stared in a wild kind of cringing amazement, as perhaps you might do if you should see a dead man move. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
That idea may offend the smart set and leave diplomats "cringing," but Israel's new foreign minister is hardly the first to express it. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference
Most of us are just plain cringing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-03-01] Reference
"I promise that," Bentwood said in a cringing voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
ROBERT RUBIN, NOT ONE TOduck a question, is cringing. From Wordnik.com. [It's Rubin, Stupid] Reference
True humility is not cowardly, cringing, or abjectly weak. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
The cringing or pleading kind predisposes one unfavourably. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
That was just awful, and I'm cringing just thinking about it. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: LXDs & Frequencies: Conversations With American Hi-Fi's Stacy Jones and Director Jon Chu] Reference
The eyes of the Americans followed the cringing figure of the. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Dan grows nervous, cringing as I brush past him in the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [What They Meant] Reference
I saw her safe, cringing back from us and from the precipice. From Wordnik.com. [S OWN STORY(1)] Reference
The man behind the bar was at once cringing and ready to do anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Then the light changed, the car spurted away, and left Marlowe cringing. From Wordnik.com. [Citadel] Reference
The deposed archbishop, now cringing before his victor, yielded his assent. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
This time it's a woman who spends most of the book cringing into the mattress. From Wordnik.com. [Our Number-One Fan Strikes Again] Reference
The man came, with all the cringing servility of a born native, and bowed low. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
Senator McCain, cringing, immediately distanced himself from Gramm and his comments. From Wordnik.com. [Gaffe Alert!] Reference
The audience is laughing and cringing because they see a bit of themselves in Shaun. From Wordnik.com. [Our Storied Lives: Narrating, Navigating Adversity] Reference
Imbecile in politics as in war, he cannot retrieve it by cringing to party purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Starting June 16, BBC America will re-air the first season in all its cringing glory. From Wordnik.com. [Television: Quiet Riot] Reference
And the spectacle of Warren Christopher cringing in Beijing, pummeled by his irate hosts. From Wordnik.com. [The Rites (And Wrongs) Of Spring] Reference
The man stammered out a few words with a cringing air, but the planter cut him short with. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
She began some speech in a cringing tone to Ideala, but the tawdry girl pushed her aside rudely. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Careful paintings were being heaved in a torrent into the trunk, their expensive frames cringing. From Wordnik.com. [The Taste in My Mouth] Reference
The girls lifted their bodies up cringing in pain and saw the bracelet on the ground between them. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.19: Opportunity Arising] Reference
Wiegel was a domineering blusterer to his subordinates, but a cringing sycophant to those over him. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
Walter's face took on an expression of fear and cringing terror far greater than he was really feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
She hates the bubblegum pop of teen peers like Hanson, cringing to think anyone would throw her into that category. From Wordnik.com. [Pop Prodigy Grows Up] Reference
The Hindoos and the Bengal Mussulmans are characterized by cringing servility, open insolence, or rude indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Altogether the women that I saw had a rather attractive, feminine look, and their manner, though timid, was not cringing. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
The tension of the buildup, the appreciation of the perfect pass, the cringing of the crowd as a striker dives in the box?. From Wordnik.com. [Of Passion and Trivia] Reference
Molly stayed twittering by the door, wonderful because she saw her King of Men cringing like a footboy before a shorter than himself. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
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