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.
So when Cuban-Americans do what Rubio has done since arriving in the Senate 16 months ago and take a hardline against illegal immigration, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans have been known to cringe.
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?
Robyn Archer, who is the artistic director of the Adelaide Festival, the country's largest cultural showcase, is convinced that Australia will not finally put the cultural cringe to rest until (and unless) its people vote yes in next year's referendum on a republic.
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.
Bring the charges to the House of Representatives, shame the guy, laugh him to scorn, let the newsboys chew on him, let him crawl and cringe and beg forgiveness and then hand the keys to the prosecutor's office over to the other side.
But when it comes to practices that make chief security officers cringe, Brazil and China take special honors.
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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The investment house informed the Fed March 13 that it was on the verge of bankruptcy due to a bank run that would have made Franklin Roosevelt cringe.
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.
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