Allen swallowed again, almost cringing as he licked his lips and turned desperate eyes on Lisa.
Cringing, she held out her hand.
Cringing, venal, avaricious, dishonest, the Arab combines all the faults of a vicious nature with those which a degraded religion inculcates or encourages.
Descartes, in his correspondence with the Jesuits, had shown an almost cringing eagerness to have their powerful organization on his side.
From a fear of flying, to cringing at the sight of spiders, even the rich and famous have their fair share of phobias.
He also helps her develop a creative plan for a ceremony that still captures her themes, but in a way that won't have her cringing at the wedding photos.
I think the collective unconscious had built up enough steam, perhaps from deep, cringing despair, for breakthrough.
If you're cruising alone, you may be cringing at the thought of paying for a whole cabin.
Not expecting the dizzy spell, she staggered against the car, cringing away from Czerno as he snatched her arms and dragged her to the house.
She felt his cold gaze and didn't face him, cringing instead.
She floundered to a sitting position, then her feet, cringing as she struggled upright, the sting in her wounded knees bringing tears to her eyes.
She walked down the hallway to the guest bedroom, cringing.
The expression of that base and cringing smile, which Pierre knew so well in his wife, revolted him.
The only excuse made for the alternate cringing and insult, the alternate abuse and lying, which marked his course in this matter, has been the very weak plea that a man cannot fight with a system - a plea which is sufficiently answered by the retort that a great many men have so fought and have won.
The word is now generally used in the sense of a cringing flatterer of the great.
Why create the enormity of the universe merely to have a single solitary planet briefly inhabited by cringing sycophants?