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It cringingly supports right-wing politics here and will always finds a negative approach to anything the Labor government does.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work."

He responds to one question from an 81-year-old with an endless, learned, and cringingly dull discourse on health care financing.

Wagner's early correspondence with Meyerbeer, up to 1846, is cringingly obsequious.

If so, it is cringingly off.

It shuffled forward hesitantly, sniffing at the tidbit and looking around cringingly.

Coming level with Alfred, she glared at him until he cringingly fell back out of her way, stumbling over the dog as he did so.

The man was cringingly eager.

Although an admirer of Humphrys, I thought this mornings interview was cringingly awful.

His manner was cringingly servile.

Even worse, as she cringingly remembered, had been the reaction of Peter's mother when he had described the parrot's excesses to her the following weekend.

But the force became a plaything of the Serbs; it cringingly followed orders of Serbian commanders.

She put on a cringingly duff American accent, the kind it was politest and most humane merely to pretend wasn't happening.

The headmen of the village were cringingly afraid of him, and for good reason, as we were not overlong in finding out.

Once the two had reluctantly and cringingly mounted, the phantom dragon leapt into the air and soared through the crystal walls of the Aviary.

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

Sittenfeld captures the teenage hook-up experience in a way that isn't too cringingly young-adult or clinically distant.

He took the small cask of ale the servant cringingly brought, placed it between his knees, and bashed in the top with his gnarled fist.

Its Rushmore Effect answered cringingly, "He said it was for your own good, Mr. Garden.

A cringingly clumsy attempt at flirtation from Jimmy de Soto once in the mess bar, slapped down with brutal disinterest.

The disconcerted young man bows, as he goes out, and cringingly hopes that Mr. Tulkinghorn of the Fields is well.

The show fared poorly among critics and audiences alike, with TV Guide calling it "dead on arrival, with a cringingly awkward host."

But instead he muttered cringingly, which was evidently what was expected, "Did you say--" "Yes, mister, you can have some coffee."

In "Harlequin Eats the Fly," a cringingly hungry Arlecchino catches, salts and consumes a buzzing fly.