Cringingly

Michael obeyed--not crouching cringingly, but trotting eagerly, gladly, to Steward's feet.

The disconcerted young man bows, as he goes out, and cringingly hopes that Mr.

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.

I still marvel that a behaviour once would have been viewed as naff at best and cringingly vain at worst, has now become so commonplace that it warrants its own globally recognised word!

And any TV show or film that featured such a phone (think Friends or the 1987 Michael Douglas film Wall Street) becomes, to the viewers' eye, cringingly dated.

Siding up to her on the sofa, he cringingly tells her: "I feared you've got a broken heart so I just wanted to come over here and fix it."

It is a relentlessly depressing polemic for a white, male reader, which, in light of the above, sounds rather like pathetic special pleading: there is no quarter to be given, however, no rebuttal to be made--this collection, magnificent and cringingly forceful as it is, is powerful food for thought, and, hopefully, action.

The whole thing was cringingly amdram in execution and certainly put the ham into Hammond.

Adam Price was cringingly embarrassing when interviewed on TV.

| VALLEY Cops on BBC Three was a cringingly watchable look at the daily lives of officers on the crime-ravaged beat in South Wales.

Accompanying the cringingly slo-mo documentation of the procedure, a multipart sound track whose various roles are voiced by Simnett recounts the story of a girl who wants her voice lowered "so that it ...

British funnyman Gervais is milking his cringingly awkward David Brent character for all he's got.