Most of Rifaat's female protagonists take a resigned or begrudgingly accepting stance towards the hardships they face in life.

She begrudgingly accepted the latter award but donated the money to charity.

The Secret Service might begrudgingly accept a sidelined position while the FBI came in to run the investigation, but that didn't mean he had to.

"People begrudgingly accepted the reality that everything it had was substandard, because there was no alternative."

Face begrudgingly accepts his explanation and relations between them are restored.

But most New Yorkers found a point each season when they begrudgingly accepted the heat.

Later, however, they begrudgingly accept his help.

Sprewell begrudgingly accepted a sixth-man role he felt was beneath a player of his caliber.

When Celia fails to achieve the director's needs within the first two takes, Gaby begs him for a third attempt, to which he begrudgingly accepts.

This is a surprise, begrudgingly accepting what happened, yet no condemnation of it, that's media for you.