His boasts about his threadbare boyhood must have caused his respected, middle-class family to cringe a little.
The irregularity of her features, her straight, dry hair, her small mouth, all caused her to cringe inwardly and suddenly to feel vulnerable.
Others will struggle: prepare to cringe in 2011 as corporate leaders spout a lot of phoney stuff that used to look bad enough when written down, but will sound even worse spoken.
As a business owner, I had to cringe for this owner sharing her deep disregard, publicly and out-loud, for many of her customers without even realizing the damage she was inflicting on her own business.
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It ought to be impossible to like Johnny but watching him squirm in the clinic with one girlfriend is enough to make you cringe in fear for him, you're so certain that the other girlfriend is going to come in.
Michael Eisner would cringe to be included, but at 57, he is no spring chicken.
But Norton refuses to call himself an angry comic, nor does he consider his routine to be "cringe" humor.
Privacy-conscious travelers may cringe to think of the full-body scanners finding their way into dozens of airport checkpoints around the country.
Even so, she reckons her country has long since done what Arthur Phillips hoped it would do to counteract the cringe.
But what part did our roles as leaders play in creating the very employees we try to avoid and cringe when we find them?
The confessions posted after the design change were found to be much more cringe-worthy.
Petraeus gives many of these airborne, progress-on-the-march tours to visiting congressmen, journalists, and academics, and there was a cringe-inducing quality to some of his recitations as he skimmed above the country at an altitude of a thousand feet.
When I suggest they need to prepare to sell themselves to their prospective employer they cringe.
Here's a sight to make Mac-lovers cringe: a Windows "Start" button on the Mac desktop.
Diller, 65, is clearly confident, often arrogant, definitely intimidating, and frequently able to make public relations flaks cringe.
Nor did it cringe and apologize to an Indian readership for using English.
Revered intellectuals and writers like Crouch, Marsalis, McWhorter, and Martin Kilson, the first African American professor to receive tenure at Harvard, cringe when they think intellectuals who engage hip hop don't embrace the values and styles of earlier arts communities or the civil rights movement.
While one city may be interested in installing videos to catch illegal garbage dumpers, another will cringe at the notion of filming citizens without their knowledge.
Bowles said punk was the forerunner to grunge, which also made some tastemakers cringe when Marc Jacobs first put it on the runway in the early '90s.
This might cause owners of earlier iPhones cringe at the thought of having to purchase adapters but Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shareholders might be heartened to know that its rumored that the Cupertino, California-based firm will be the only maker of the dock connector adapters.
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In recent years, Amazon has shown support for a more streamlined sales tax system on the federal level even as those of us in the tax world cringe at the thought of Congress trying to streamline anything tax-related.
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He aims to court empty nesters looking for a downscaled lifestyle but who cringe at the notion they have become blue-haired senior citizens who play bingo and line up for the early bird special.
Cringe if you like, but it's hard to argue with the business case for such a device.
The idea that regulators might come to specify the composition of software packages makes most in the industry cringe.
And sometimes it's cringe-worthy nonsense, like actor Megan Fox extolling vinegar shots to flush out fat in the colon.
If not in the race cars, she hopes it will do it at least in the big rigs that haul the cars from race shop to tracks all over the country, burning so much diesel it makes Munter cringe.
Other bands may cringe at the thought of such a tour, but the recipe seemed to work for Blind Pilot.
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