cringe

Even the word "fragrance" tends to send cringe-inducing shudders down the spine.

But before you come down with a case of culture cringe, understand that those standards aren't as high as you might like.

Some city folk might cringe at the thought of this, but to me it's a part of my life and I wouldn't have it any other way!

The word " cringe" is often used to describe the feeling of intense embarrassment in witnessing a certain kind of British comedy.

She almost makes you cringe watching her, you think: stop kissing Helen, stop touching her all the time, because Helen never reciprocates.

In my bid to banish mommy guilt, I try to take those cringe-worthy decisions in stride and chalk them up to a learning experience.

The tone of my half-joking voice, the word "sheep, " and the memory of the chain make him cringe a little.

Most women would cringe if they thought there was an embarrassing picture of them on a social networking site.

But when she tells Germans that workers in the U. S. usually get two weeks of vacation a year, they cringe.

His way of sleeping makes me cringe.

As a card-carrying economist, I cringe when "green economy" enthusiasts insist that protecting the environment would be all gain, no pain.

When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'.

The ambition protects to see Ti Si an appearance with not ex- cringe, unbearable ground of Fen Fen says.

Most data designers would cringe at this minute amount of information -- e-mail doesn't even have such a limitation, for goodness sake!

Ye fear and cringe when ye find that the spots upon thy sun cause confusion of any nature.

Although it debuted with strong ratings, the show is so cringe-inducingly terrible, we're not sure if it will survive the season.

Your heart pulses in a rapid tempo , as you cringe your hands in fear .

Do you always celebrate your birthday or do you cringe and keep it a secret since you are another year older?

And if the euro zone were a person, that person would be stuck in a permanent cringe.

I really believe that the Democrats are afraid of the mafia. The republican mafia. That's why they cringe daily. They're buffalo ed.

On the one hand, I had been raised to cringe at the very thought of poofy white dresses and bouquets.

I cringe when I hear a dignified news reporter soliciting tweets from his or her audience.

At each address, I cringe with embarrassment and irritation at a show better suited to Pyongyang than to Washington.

Inexperienced players can dazzle you, but unless they are Chris Paul or Brandon Roy, they often make you cringe in the last two minutes.

At first glance, these words may be enough to make a project manager cringe.

No one wants to have to cringe when they tell people where they work.

Nature lovers might cringe at the term "ecosystem services" to describe, say, the view of a pristine beach or a stream teeming with trout.

As a musician, when I make a mistake, I'll cringe and think I sounded terrible.

My eyes always cringe at the sight of a homeless veteran.

What might speed up delivery for the business might make a regulator cringe.

If hearing the words health care causes you to cringe, it's understandable.

The system's built-in speakers won't make you cringe, but you'll enjoy better sound by using headphones.

When you understand that discipline is self-caring, not self-castigating, you won't cringe at its mention, but will cultivate it.

If the very thought of calling a stranger and selling yourself makes you cringe, you are not alone.

I even cringe at the thought of working with other JavaScript libraries.

A new super-fast book-scanning technology could make publishers cringe even more than when they heard about Google Book Search.

It made me cringe every time I used these names, but I didn't say anything because I thought I was respecting Chinese culture.

I may cringe at some of the things they take on in the spirit of self-expression.

"Some people consider us an Internet company, but that makes us cringe, " Fried and Hansson write.

I dread buying a swimsuit, as consecutive horror and humiliation make me cringe in the dressing room.

Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

Sometimes I cringe when I think about the tragic, terrible parts of America's fledgling history.

Natives will cringe and squirm with embarrassment at such brashness.

School teachers probably cringe at this kind of pronunciation.

Most people will cringe that you're opening the firewall, but what they don't understand is that it is completely encrypted.

Reason to hate: The cringe-inducing, emotional close-eyed singing face.

People will cringe to listen to it, but when they think about it, it's remarkable how accurate it can be.

Here the "base" is not "humble" , the customer is not a God, there is no need for him cringe, such as pray more.

Now, looking at those pictures just make me cringe.

English sports fans sometimes cringe when they hear commentary on US sports.

The third, most accurate and easily most cringe-worthy method comes from monitoring for fertile cervical mucus.

The idea of heterosexual sex made me cringe and homosexual sex made me ill.

Many of these people drove me crazy, but they also made me laugh and cringe, because I could see myself in some of them.

But I am sure he will not therefore and cringe, I will try to land, rigid, have been dashed to the end!

When we learn that America's children lay educationally behind other industrialized nations, we don't cringe.

I am not a New Yorker. And though my family may secretly cringe at the thought, it's true.

It's their unintended consequences that make me cringe.

But policymakers, too, have reasons to cringe.

If Janel would cringe or pull away, someone might say, "Oh, she's so shy. "

Most people look back at their senior year quotes and cringe , but not these witty young ladies.

"My absolute being, do so? " The old clan is long to cringe of say.

So when I hear scientists say, "The data speak for themselves, " I cringe.

After some cringe-inducing maneuvering of the display data cable, we can separate the two pieces.

Cold wind, mother caught cringe, can hand still wouldn't stop percussion.

Many American adults cringe when they remember the unfortunate dresses and awkward dates from their own proms.

Ad you can do about it is cringe and pretend it all never happened.

Then, a nurse came by, only to cringe and shun my helplessness.

This way, you can sit on them all summer; lines you wrote in June might make you cringe by August.

This is a selection of the absolute worst scenes in movies. Prepare to cringe!

I know that a lot of foreigners cringe at the idea of munching on innards and entrails, but I'm sure that you'll enjoy it!

Everytime I see something on USA, it makes me cringe now.

Yet when I look back at those articles now, there are still passages that make me cringe.

Yes, you might cringe at them, but that's ok.

I cringe when I think of the poems I wrote then.

No. But you don't cringe when I say his name.

I cringe when I think of the risks I took.

Today when we go to gas stations to fill up whatever we may drive, we almost literally cringe at the high prices.

That is why I cringe whenever I hear people ask me how to get rich quicker. Or where do they start?

So come on Mr. President, let's shake off this cultural cringe and make the world more beautiful.

I sometimes cringe when I see these kinds of articles.

When Germany's Lena Meyer-Landrut takes to the Eurovision stage on May 29th to sing "Satellite" in English, purists will cringe.

The response from the present Hong Kong government mimics the "pre-emptive cringe" of pre-Patten British colonial regimes.

Matchmaking for single friends can be done in a disastrously tactless way which makes both parties cringe;