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"wince" Definitions
  1. an expression on your face that shows that you are embarrassed or feeling pain

440 Sentences With "wince"

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Finally, the Fenix 5S's price — $600 — is wince-inducing.
You'd wince if they so much as cut their finger.
I get my blood drawn and only wince a little.
When agents traced the weapon, it came back to Wince.
Lauck told Wince she could see he had genuine regret.
All I had to do was stand there and wince.
Still, there was no challenge that ever made him wince.
They will likely wince but then nod as they read.
These moments may make you laugh or wince or both.
You immediately wince at the thought of you being lesser than.
This inefficiency is wince-inducing for economists, and difficult to enforce.
And yet I wince each time someone says it to us.
"Of all people, Mr. Wince should have known better," Duffey said.
You can see Antalia wince from labor pains in the shot.
This is normally the sort of interaction that makes me wince.
And when she mimes cutting herself on shattered glass, you wince.
I wince; the smell of the swine corpses is rather sharp.
The agent texted Wince and worked out a deal in which he agreed to pay $375 for a Smith & Wesson 9mm pistol -- a gun Wince had purchased at a police supply shop just a week earlier.
The dog lover in me smiles, but as a landlord, I wince.
Brace yourselves for a wince-inducing display of public transport-themed awkwardness.
"My first response, on reading the invitation, was to wince," Lindsay says.
But how many wince at the sight of the $4 deal ad?
The people closest to him seem to live in a perpetual wince.
If a character in live action runs into a wall, we wince.
Another weapon Wince sold "was used in a murder," the documents state.
"It doesn't define the person I am or have been," Wince said.
That character, however hilarious, made some viewers wince the first time around.
They wince dramatically, as if detecting the far-off aroma of bacon.
It makes me wince just as much now as it did then.
I wince with every gulp and beg off after the sixth shot.
Deborah Wince-Smith is president and CEO of the Council on Competitiveness.
You might wince at that price tag, and I wouldn't blame you.
If that premise is wince-inducing, so is much of the dialogue.
That's what Wince, the former Washington, DC police officer, told ATF agents.
Mostly it was my interpreter, whose face hardened into a permanent wince.
Read part 1 (CNN)As disgraced former police officer Richard Wince awaited sentencing last year for illegal gun dealing, his lawyer told the judge Wince had already learned a hard lesson and asked that his client receive probation.
Wince, 247, pleaded guilty to dealing firearms without a license earlier this year.
I wince when Republicans say they feel good or bad about an election.
When somebody puts on a Slowdive record from 1992, I actually don't wince.
Though I've done this thousands of times, I still wince at every jab.
When you watch someone grimace or wince, what do you think he's feeling?
Some supporters say the president's thoughts in 140-character bursts make them wince.
Being from Michigan, the idea of cars on Mackinac Island makes me wince.
But, predictably, Brady wince-smiled his way through it and completely ignored Alanis.
Where others would groan, wince, cry or whine, Kinsley is looking for the joke.
There is usually a slight wince, sometimes even a full shake of the head.
Wince admitted selling up to two dozen firearms after being contacted by the ATF.
If you don't wince when you bite into it, you feel a little cheated.
Almost 90 years later, in the age of trans, it's hard not to wince.
He winces, and I wince too—the thought of tumbling down is mildly terrifying.
These views made Wagner wince, as the diaries of Cosima Wagner, his wife, attest.
I wince as I hand over my debit card to pay for the IV infusion.
The crowd was clearly not impressed, and you just gotta watch the video and wince.
Until then, you can marvel—or wince—at the ferocity of these horrifying rattlesnake attacks.
My body pulls into itself, making me smaller, while my mouth draws into a wince.
I'd wince every time she started eating, and eventually I started to dread feeding her.
Labour MPs in marginals across the Midlands wince when asked whether he is an asset.
Over the weekend a story appeared on Medium that will make any Amazon user wince.
He held extremist positions that would even make some of the readers of Breitbart wince.
The metal grazes my stitches on the way through, and I wince at the pain.
But several people, when asked about the state of things, simply responded with a wince.
Wittkamper's father and grandfather were past members and he had been a firefighter wince 2007.
I buy bulk chocolate chips and wince when they're rung up at the register ($7.61).
Is it possible to give socks as a gift and not have the recipient wince?
Together, they're a bunch of narcissistic misfits with one-liners so biting, even Amma would wince.
I will spin the wheel with a centrifugal force that would make astronauts in training wince.
Meanwhile, back at Winterfell, watching Arya and Sansa fight over loyalty is also making us wince.
I wince, bringing my lips to the brim of the glass nearly expecting to be poisoned.
In contrast, those in the southeast might wince at just the sight of a chili pepper.
Every once in a while, the sound of gunfire—from the "BAM" installation—made people wince.
She looked away from me with a kind of wince, as if my contrition pained her.
Now I find that the tweets I see tend to make me laugh rather than wince.
Members of the old Damascus business elite wince when they describe the clientele in these places.
There are some pointed lines, however, that would make even the most robust of couples wince.
I know when I get up tomorrow, I will wince when my feet touch the floor.
It's a tough-minded statement that, if she read it, must have made Senator Clinton wince.
He entices his users to fornicate; when they get into trouble he does not wince with guilt.
Sampson anchors the action in wince-inducing realism, while her backdrops are filled out with painterly ambiance.
Do I still sometimes get stressed out over ice cream, or wince at goofy pictures of myself?
This heavy-use justification certainly makes the high price of a flagship phone seem less wince-inducing.
Turns out, no, but at least in context there's less wince-inducing hilarity to the first episode.
Wince told the agents he could not find any records relating to the sale of the .38.
Federal sentencing guidelines call for Wince to receive a prison term of one year to 18 months.
Janes bought the gun from Wince in a parking lot later that month, according to court records.
The Russian approach, enough to make supporters of waterboarding wince, has by some accounts been grimly effective.
Trump supporters, too, should wince at the cringe-worthy embarrassments that would have derailed any other candidate.
I'm oversimplifying, I'm sure, and they would probably wince a bit, but that's basically what it is.
"You okay?" she says, as I retake my seat with a painful wince, a clearly audible groan.
The interaction ended on a friendly note, but the initial interaction was awkward enough to make anyone wince.
"I didn't see her wince or be like 'I don't know if I should do this,'" Hall reflected.
If the $1,995 price hasn't made you wince yet, the add-ons might push you over the edge.
Each time I experienced a wince of pain, knowing the extra layer of suffering that this family faced.
You will remember a time when problematic boys in skinny jeans who play guitars didn't make people wince.
The phone number for the "rwince" profile matched the number Wince gave agents during their interview months earlier.
After several days of warmer weather in recent weeks, the timing for the snowstorm could make residents wince.
In pro wrestling it is achieved, strained with a wince, and then released and the match goes on.
Last summer, a cafe in Melbourne did something at which many of us still wince at the memory.
The close-minded may wince, but they are simply depriving themselves of the works of a playful visionary.
Chances are that at this point in the festive season, my Slade reference there probably made you wince.
"I wince at a lot of what surfing has stood for and not stood for," Mr. Warshaw said.
Where there was pitch, patrons in less sensible shoes wiped out in ways that made my ligaments wince.
While others excitedly share photos of crocuses in bloom in early February, well ahead of schedule, I wince.
I shouldn't have had to wince as he minced, according to Patricia Rossi, a Florida-based business etiquette expert.
Because it's not my general modus operandi, the fakeness makes me wince, and it shows all over my face.
When the person says something particularly off-base, don't nod in agreement; instead, let yourself grimace, wince, or cringe.
One particularly wince-worthy scene has Marcus ruin his band's crucial audition by drunkenly relieving himself on an amplifier.
Her performance here is smart, brave and unsparing to the point that you wince at its lack of vanity.
"I remember hearing that people at Capitol were bummed when we handed Static in," Linton remembers with a wince.
One thing's for certain: a grimace is not a scream and a wince is not a cry of anguish.
On Oscar night this year, I will wince when only men are the nominees in some ostensibly coed categories.
Classier than Jäger and far more palatable than Malort, the bitter amaro makes some people wince immediately upon sipping.
We're talking physical violence, stunts gone wrong, sexual innuendo that would make Christian Grey wince, grandma chaperones, and live animals.
And should that happen, Zuckerberg might wince at this story's headline or roll his eyes in frustration at its thesis.
As for his campy and subversive observations, he gets away with it all without a wince from Scholastic, his publisher.
They wince as they recall a meet and greet they did at the Hilton Hotel for a global cosmetics brand.
"Product of Guatemala," it tells me, and I wince at what that could mean for the person who picked it.
Endometrial tissue can adhere to the bowels, making something as simple as going to the bathroom a wince-inducing experience.
Prosecutors said Wince sold the AK-47 to Janes in a parking lot and did not conduct a background check.
This is because even the most ardent supporters of the Trump agenda sometimes wince at a presidential tweet or remark.
It is difficult not to wince in anticipation as he attacks Taira forces from impossible vantages, outnumbered by nearly half.
At its best — think The Onion or Andy Borowitz — fake news is funny in a way that makes us wince.
Letters To the Editor: "For the Promise of Tips, Enduring Errant Hands" (front page, March 12) made me wince anew.
Occasionally he would wince at having mislaid a board, then pick it up again and set it down someplace else.
You don't directly see it on-screen, but you can see Carl wince in a few frames of a scene.
He didn't wince if one of his guests used his real name, and he openly took notes at the table.
As I grow older, and begin to wince at my own younger self, I am less inclined to take offense.
Last Thursday, the China Global Television Network surfaced a video that is sure to make stomachs turn and animal-lovers wince.
Tomohiro Ishii was a brutal, wince-inducing affair that wound up being about which wrestler could take legit kicks the longest.
The last should especially draw a wince from Trump's vice president, Mike Pence, who was Indiana's governor from 21989 to 21989.
I still wince every time I hear a wind chime clamoring in the breeze of a beachside home or antique dealer.
He bemoaned the Soviet system's imperfections while mounting rose-tinted defences of its achievements and wince-making attacks on the West.
It was like every small wince of tooth pain I've experience in my entire life condensed into every inhale and exhale.
When asked point-blank what major legislative achievements are possible by November 2018, a surprising number wince and reply: maybe none.
"Some Japanese scripts are full of lines that makes me wince and think, 'Oof, good luck with that one,'" says Kracker.
Rubio's shot is welcomed by opposing coaches, and the only observers who wince when he shoots are his own team's fans.
CHINA'S leaders wince at the merest hint of support for the separation of any part of their country from the "motherland".
Indeed, Conway says that graphology can be used to identify gifted children, sexual orientation (wince), and even suggest a career path.
During the meeting, which was secretly recorded, "Wince never asked the undercover agent for any form of identification," court records state.
The agent told Wince he didn't mind a higher price for the gun since he didn't have to fill out paperwork.
You respect John F. Kennedy for his flair and wit, but wince at how he hurt his wife through numerous affairs.
I didn't mind that because I rarely use this key, but the design decision made Mr. Leventhal, the software engineer, wince.
And we learn even less about most of the migrants before they are killed, the assassinations depicted with wince-inducing graphicness.
For me, the wince quotient is really low in comparison to all the other records that I made during that time.
Despite their relative success, there isn't one that doesn't possess elements that make me wince every time I enter the space.
Years later, he became a close friend and eventually — he would wince at this — something of a heroic figure to me.
She stood onstage with her lips pulled back tightly in an excruciating wince, often repeating individual words in a breathy incantation.
Wince—as a cop—should have known better than anyone the risks associated with his black-market gun sales, he argued.
Holmes said Trump's voice was so loud that it caused Sondland to wince and hold the phone away from his ear.
I'd had surgery to remove three metastatic tumors from my lungs just hours before, and every breath ended with a wince.
"Our members wince at voting to sustain a system that none of them supported," said Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma.
I knew that whatever I told would be done with affection, even if it made me wince a little to record it.
Traders often wince when 1987 is mentioned since it is remembered well as the year of the famous October stock market crash.
Readers may wince at the thought of a shockwave probe to the peen, but it's not as painful as the name suggests.
When I land a "krushing blow" and the camera zooms in to reveal the intimate destruction of bones and tissue, I wince.
And unlike a lot of early examples of industrial, instead of seeming quaint in the present day, it'll still make you wince.
Ne-Yo says Instagram was just playing the bizness game by rolling out Instagram Stories ... but he says it with a wince.
Let's be honest: seeing someone get clobbered in the face with a football is wince-inducing, but it's also sort of funny.
Many liberals in China wince at a renewed emphasis under Mr Xi on the Communist Party's traditional beliefs, including "Mao Zedong thought".
Law enforcement officials say unlicensed dealers such as Wince provide a steady flow of weapons to criminals who can't buy them legally.
And there, for me, was Texas: The last best place with state-sanctioned cannon fire, making people proud while making people wince.
The dialogue is also sharp, such as Debbie's wince-inducing response -- remember the year -- to Ruth's revelation that she was sexually harassed.
The now wince-inducing Native Americanisms (and, for that matter, ersatz Native Americanisms) that became the overnight camps' lingua franca — Color War!
Monday night, the basketball world bore witness to yet another wince-inducing leg injury, as Caris LeVert suffered a heinous ankle break.
Competitors on this groan-heavy, wince-inducing show are exposed to horrific events to see who can be the last person standing.
Republican Alf Landon was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's opponent in the 1936 presidential election, and he tempted fate with this wince inducing pun.
When the boys kiss, Chiron apologizes for it, and we wince, because who among us hasn't wanted to apologize for his presence?
About New York Most New Yorkers, seeing a parking ticket on their car windows, wince, then curse, maybe mutter a serenity prayer.
Richard had the thought that she might have bought the hat specifically to wear this weekend, and the idea made him wince.
When drinking it, my body was almost anticipating the wince from the alcohol, but it never came as it was booze-less.
That said, it won't last forever, but at only $6.95, you won't wince when you have to pick up a new one.
"We're dealing with countries that have tremendous export machines," said Deborah Wince-Smith, chief executive of the Council on Competitiveness business group.
John KennedyJohn Neely KennedyMORE (La.) about basic principles of law during a wince-inducing appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Meanwhile, a "Pucker Up" made with Tres Generations Añejo and "apple pucker" made me wince, in a way that wasn't entirely unpleasant.
Tune in to the hashtag, where someone's bound to have GIFed that moment that made everyone wince, lol, or scratch their heads.
Schmidt steered the company through its rocky IPO and the financial crisis (barely a wince for Google) to its status as market behemoth.
Well he's back with a whole new collection of wince-inducingly epic stunts, and this time he's filmed them all in his homeland.
The acidity she's just imbibed shows up on her sublimely expressive face, and you make a sympathetic wince at home out of solidarity.
Arlene Holmes, the mother of convicted Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, has spoken out in her first interview wince the July 2012 shooting.
"I get it," is Gretchen Carlson's message to all the American women who wince at the thought of parading around in a swimsuit.
The saccharine sweetness of power-pop can often make you wince, but these guys manage to keep an element of roughness about them.
The agents interviewed Wince, who told them he collected guns as a hobby and would occasionally buy and sell them over the internet.
The ATF then set up a sting in which they used an undercover agent in an attempt to buy a gun from Wince.
Emde pops a lid, yielding blasts of aroma and images of furry mold that can lead a squeamish visitor to wince and gag.
Bolton views her psychologically complex characters with such unsettling insight, it's hard to evade certain cold truths — and harder yet not to wince.
There's nothing in the review I would disagree with now, but the tone seems like overkill, with a harshness that makes me wince.
The show's opening segments tend to be condemnations of climate-change science or warnings about the deep state, and they make me wince.
Knowing the wound is there doesn't stop the arrival of the part where you uncover it and wince at the red, open gash.
Finally, sotto voce, with an apologetic wince or sheepish smile, anticipating the word's being volleyed back in an affected Boston Brahmin accent: Harvard.
The margin for error at the Olympic level is so minuscule, that even a "9" elicited a massive "ooh" and a collective wince.
He was one of the only people I ever met who could say something to make you wince and smile at the same time.
In case you needed reminding, fellow ommetaphobes, Dead Space 2 has the most wince-inducing eye-maiming scene since Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters.
But even as it makes you wince, The Lost Sister raises interesting questions about identity, teenage rebellion and coping with a deeply traumatic childhood.
He doesn't wince at all during the tattooing process, and only lets out a quiet "Oooh" after standing up midway to stretch his legs.
Snapshot There is cringe-worthy humor, and then there is the comedian and actor T. J. Miller, whose specialty might be called wince-inducing.
There's a chance you'll miss such moments as you look away or wince at the horror of our collective idiocy and environment-destroying greed.
I wince when the white supremacists I study for a living bring up the Israeli "ethnostate" as proof that their own desires are healthy.
Lauck seemed dismissive of the notion Wince was a hobbyist, citing the military-style weapon the officer sold Janes shortly before he killed himself.
The older woman did not wince at the blows, but the younger woman began to sob when she was struck, the Star newspaper reported.
If children do tug on it, which happens once every two or three visits, I give a little wince as if it actually hurts.
The only Ali I saw growing up was silent, fragile, a figure to wince at, thick sunglasses, someone next to him holding his arm.
Miller spent years repulsed by the "chopped meat" where his arm ended and crushed with shame when he noticed people wince or look away.
If it's enough to make you wince a little, that's about right, but there's no point in starting married life in loads of debt.
After a typical anal rejuvenation, he said patients normally experience a few days of pain, followed by a couple weeks of wince-inducing poops.
Fisher speaks with honesty, admiration, and love; she also cracks jokes that might make you wince at their truth, but also laugh at their humanity.
The other half you miss by a quarter inch and wince as you think about how many times it'll take before something snaps in there.
The story stretches over six (at times slow) episodes, with one scene in the finale that is so haunting, I dare you not to wince.
These moments, where we are invited to laugh and sometimes to wince at his foibles, can spill from his professional life into his real life.
I would wince at the thought of sunny days because even with sunglasses, bright rays — which used to bring me joy — would only intensify things.
As Al Smith IV's locker room joke hit, Trump swayed to his side, leaning into Melania and laughing off the joke with a knowing wince.
They even mention Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley in a moment of meta-critique that's just as likely to make the audience wince as smile.
Should I just wince over the icky parts and go along to get along, wait until that killer song-and-dance finale and sing along?
What followed were years in which I would come to wince my way through sex, clenching my teeth, tensing my muscles, squeezing my thighs together.
But it was ever-present, causing many of the world's most accomplished women to wince in dismay as their arrows refused to land as directed.
What would a typical sentence look like, between Gopnik's penchant for wince-inducing half-jokes and his tendency to invert the terms of his sentences?
Any time I'm asked by a journalist about Israel or "the Jewish vote," I answer and then wince before I open my social media accounts.
When she realises how she's being sized up and that her chances at getting a table might hinge on #numbers, it's hard not to wince.
There was always feedback though, from Will, Joel and Sam, and it was very insightful and encouraging (even for puzzles that now make me wince!).
Sometimes movies or songs don't age well, but you find yourself watching or humming along to them anyway, offensive lyrics, wince-inducing scenes and all.
The page-and-a-half document, in German, became known a decade ago as the "God letter," a nickname that makes some Einstein experts wince.
It's time to toss those shoes that make you wince every time you take a step — because this is the year of the comfy kicks!
One female juror seemed to wince at the graphic details, which included Hast recounting Weinstein forcibly performing oral sex on Haleyi, yanking out her tampon.
I look forward (though perhaps with a wince) to whatever Mr. Trump has to say about whatever is said about him on this country's stages.
"B'rith" is the same word usually pronounced "bris" in the U.S., where it refers to a part of the covenant that makes many men wince.
And then comes the awful last step: You are forced to scribble your name in some grotesque cursive that'd make your first grade teacher wince.
Even if you give Google credit for some piece of the "Others" in Canalys' estimates, that leaves Wear OS' marketshare hovering somewhere between wince and woof.
I still wince at the image of you flying a brand-new P4 into a fence when we had explicitly warned against doing something like that.
AP said a video showed his wife, Cilia Florez, appear to wince, and then she and the president both began looking up toward an unidentified sound.
I go through my old tweets one at a time, deleting hundreds of messages that make me wince with shame and regret upon a second read.
On the next pitch, he drove a liner to the first deck in left field and appeared to wince as he followed through on the swing.
Normicons are Democrats and Republicans who wince at the thought of a president threatening to revoke licenses of media platforms that may be unkind at times.
"Wince advised that he sold it to a male who was in the military," the affidavit states, but could not provide any further detail about him.
As part of his plea, Wince admitted to illegally selling "at least eight, but no more than 24 firearms" following the initial contact by the ATF.
But the shirt also made me wince, because it perfectly encapsulated the suspicion I've started to develop that my introversion is an excuse for something else.
For those who wince at the characterization of the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon as "frenemies" of the ad industry, be thankful; according to hbr.
Because, as Paul Underwood wrote, there are evidence-based reasons why kids can listen to "Baby Shark" on repeat, yet wince when you play something … good.
The 24-year-old singer shared a wince-inducing photo of her back on Monday that shows her torso completely covered in angry red welts and scrapes.
I have no patience for partners who refuse to bite or pinch them hard enough for me to wince a little because they're afraid of hurting me.
They look a little like this:Prepare to laugh, prepare to wince—but most of all, prepare to lose at least ten minutes to compulsively clicking through them.
Outside, pupils from Weeton Primary School at Weeton Barracks, Lancashire, gave Harry something of an inquisition – firing off the sort of questions that might make adults wince.
You could practically feel the Fox graphics team wince as they had to scramble for new images that didn't tout the Saints' impressive numbers from this season.
Once at Kennebunkport, when President Bush told reporters that he didn't want to play golf with his wife because her game "stunk," I could see her wince.
Assistant US Attorney Peter S. Duffey, who is prosecuting the case, wrote that any credit Wince was entitled to for his service was erased by his conduct.
Two decades later, Johnny Kemp's legacy might be one spoken in whispers, but the irony that *NSYNC covered "Just Got Paid" is enough to make you wince.
So after a racist incident, when the white, motherless 14-year-old Lily (Elizabeth Teeter) rescues her black housekeeper, Rosaleen, by literally removing her shackles, you wince.
But for the people who scoff and wince at others for not knowing their native tongue, just know that it's much more complex than you might think.
Or, you know, a version of you, faceless enough to make you wince with sympathy pains as the male detective lists the horrible things that happened to her.
The Bengsons' music is as exhilarating as ever, and the wince-inducing honesty of their lyrics pairs well with the deeply personal nature of the story they're sharing.
It's bound to make a surfer looking for the perfect wave wince, but for an Australian photographer the violent chaos of the ocean's waves is the ultimate discovery.
However, Pacquiao finished in style, bloodying Thurman's nose further, making his opponent wince with a confidence-sapping body shot, and sending him back to his corner breathing heavy.
In later revisions, I'd wince when I came across the phrase, roll my eyes and try to come up with a different way of describing their combat experience.
Establishment Republicans may wince at the candidate's fondness for talking about "carpet bombing" or his choice of a noted anti-Muslim bigot and conspiracy theorist as an adviser.
Because most of the films are more enjoyable when watched for particular scenes, as opposed to wading through every wince-inducing line of dialogue in George Lucas' prequels.
Words don't do it justice, because the real force of her performance (her Emmy award-winning performance) lies in her execution of every cheeky grin and subtle wince.
It's a challenge not to wince, as she trembles nonstop with internal conflicts and has a hard time squeezing into the corsets of songs that bear her name.
" As he wrote in the Journal of Medical Ethics, "In many cases, the patient will wince or wriggle during the procedure — some may even tell you it hurts.
Still, it's possible to wince at the sight of chimps -- especially those shown communicating via sign language -- being confined to tiny cages without fully buying into the "personhood" designation.
Louganis made fans around the world wince when he smashed his head into the diving board while attempting a reverse two and a half somersault during the 1988 Olympics.
Also, while the quality of Bluetooth headphones has certainly improved a lot over the past few years, the sound on some pairs is still likely to make audiophiles wince.
They are unlike Thoreau in many ways; they seem to enjoy working with other people, for instance, and they write with a prosaic clarity that would make him wince.
During their interview, court records show, the agents advised Wince that it was a violation of federal law to repeatedly sell guns for a profit without having a license.
The partners at Jimmy's firm are livid that he cut them out of the entire commercial creation and airing process, and are about one wince away from firing him.
"I just want to take a moment to apologize to everyone in the courtroom," Richard Wince, 51, said through tears before his sentencing in federal court in Richmond, Virginia.
Readers will wince at Reichl's discomfort when, at a signing for a book of recipes, she is confronted by a chef about a review that cost him his job.
Read of poor Harry Eastlack, whose body turned soft tissue to bone, or of the deformed skulls of the children of Toulouse, and I defy you not to wince.
More alarming for the Yankees was the wince on Aroldis Chapman's face when he threw a pitch in the ninth inning while trying to protect a four-run lead.
Lindgard wins and taps the ball around Farouk Ben Mustapha, but is unable to catch up and can only wince as it rolls off the post but not in.
The longer this balance persists, the more time that normal — meaning not very agitated or attentive — voters have to rally 'round candidates who do not make prudent people wince.
Additional credit, of course, goes to the actor, Andrew Long, who at various points approximates Mr. Trump's characteristic shrug-smirk-wince and his familiar seesaw of aggression and petulance.
As a longtime boxing trainer and writer, my initial reaction to this event, for which each fighter could earn more than $100 million, was a wince and a moan.
And Lucasfilm's ongoing insistence that the wince-worthy Special Edition Jabba the Hutt scene is officially a part of this movie is just enough to dock it a point.
Parts of the 66-year-old actor's confession will make readers wince, but others display ample courage in speaking out about racial fears and anxieties that plague global society.
Some of these discounts will make them wince, but they will welcome it as a relatively easy way to get out of a project without publicly shocking the market.
On tracks like the recent "Talking Freddie Gray Blues" his sincerity and self-reflection can be almost oppressive; a level of white guilt that's hard not to wince at.
My colleague Elizabeth Bruenig already ribbed House Speaker Paul Ryan for suggesting he might struggle not to wince or grimace behind President Obama during the State of the Union tonight.
As a result, almost everyone does something silly that they look back on and wince; truly cringeworthy moments send a chill down your spine when you think back on them.
The games are fast-paced, impacts between chairs are encouraged, and there are plenty of wince-worthy moments that prove the sport is definitely not for the faint of heart.
And yes, he really did say that people working at HBO over the next year would undergo pain similar to giving birth, a wince-inducing metaphor you can't explain away.
As I recalled the horror on Bev's face, and on everybody else's, my entire body contorted in a wince of shame and—I'll be honest—a certain species-specific pride.
Information obtained through a subpoena of an online gun trading site showed that Wince had made more than 400 posts related to firearms from June 2013 through April of last year.
And it's an advantage that he's not working from a source like Shakespeare or Fitzgerald ("The Great Gatsby"), so that we're not left to wince at the vulgarity of his adaptation.
As likely to feature real people as actors, and lean harder on jokes than situations, cringe comedy has expanded so much that every laugh these days seems married to a wince.
She wasn't afraid to say things that would make you wince and laugh — she once told Stephen Colbert that even in galaxies far, far away, women are subject to double standards.
Even die-hard Clint Eastwood fans may wince when reminded that some time between the third and fourth "Dirty Harry" movies, their hero starred in two screwball comedies opposite an orangutan.
In the December debate, after Carly Fiorina dismissed Rubio as a mere first-term senator without executive experience, Rubio reacted with both a lip-stretcher sign of anxiety and a sad wince.
At 20 he is equal to this wunderkind, who evidently, earlier in the day, had made him wince, and he dresses him down with an appreciative shrewdness that my father clearly valued.
These speeches tend to be high-level overviews though there could be passages in the remarks to banks over causes of the financial crisis that might make some on the left wince.
Then he recounts a scene that makes you wince: he and a couple white friends walking into the mall with Black Power medallions on, not understanding why they were getting mercilessly clowned.
While her colleagues insist there is a numbness to all the nudity that settles in after being exposed to it all day, Ms. Esemenli confesses that sometimes she cannot help but wince.
Adam's father, on the other hand, cuts a lowlier figure, and, when he speaks in the witness box, we are encouraged to wince at his halting, half-aggressive statement of religious faith.
Having beaten Leicester last month to inch within two points of the Foxes, Arsenal have subsequently conspired to fall apart in a manner even their misfit progenitors of 2009 would wince at.
Once so in vogue, the term 'marginal gains' may have taken a near-fatal knock in the wake of Sir Dave Brailsford and Team Sky's prolonged and wince-inducing fall from grace.
As it turns out, while businesses predictably wince at Labour's plans to increase corporate taxes, party advisers say many in the business sector welcome their commitment to investing in infrastructure, especially technology.
In a series of wince-inducing scenes, Mr. Cohen got him to yell a racial epithet and drop his pants on camera by telling him that those tactics would scare terrorists away.
It's vividly specific details like these that made me wince in recognition while reading Ingrid Rojas Contreras's "Fruit of the Drunken Tree," a beautifully rendered novel of an Escobar-era Colombian childhood.
I mean, I suppose a grimace or a wince can mean anything, up to a point, but do you necessarily have the wherewithal to really feel what the grimacer or wincer feels?
Deborah Wince-Smith is the president and CEO of the Council on Competitiveness, which has a membership consisting of CEOs of major corporations, university presidents and the heads of national labor organizations.
But there was one issue on which both sides could agree: The law under which Wince was about to be sentenced that day in a federal courtroom in Virginia was badly flawed.
You can probably guess the stuff that makes me wince, like SAYA/ANNAS, which I'm calling the sticker price on finishing the mirror-image corner that lost me seven years of sleep.
Not that craziness is a complete stranger to Arthur's life, living as he does with his mother (Frances Conroy) in a dingy apartment, while harboring wince-inducing dreams of becoming a standup comedian.
The Cavs left him alone and dared him to shoot, and Barnes played with zero confidence and wince-inducing hesitancy, generally coming off like a cross between Milhouse Van Houten and LeToya Luckett.
You'll wince at her alarm clock, which slaps her awake with a robot hand, and cackle at her cereal bot, which hurls Cheerios and milk all over her kitchen table as she deadpans.
First we reach the point where we reflexively wince at those opening string chords, and eventually we will find ourselves buried under the psychic weight of those "Born to a ____ and a ____" jokes.
Film Series Even die-hard Clint Eastwood fans may wince when reminded that some time between the third and fourth "Dirty Harry" movies, their hero starred in two screwball comedies opposite an orangutan.
One imagines that other contemporary Village dweller S. J. Perelman reading it with a wince: where are the desultory dry cleaners and depressed delicatessen slicers in this Pagnol movie version of Village life?
The handbag — or the jacket, the briefcase, the chair — will possess no overt logo (a few accessories sport an "H," but privately most people inside the company regard branding with a slight wince).
Yes, her vocals will probably remind you of Sade's, but she's staking out her own space in British music with the sort of deeply personal songwriting that can make you wince at its intimacy.
Similarly, in the opening third of "The Entire History of You," Jonas makes a wince-inducing spectacle of himself at a dinner party, bloviating about sex and technology while Ffion giggles and Liam seethes.
"Both of them are being blinded by love — and that's not a criticism, I just wince a little bit," marriage therapist Susan Pease Gadoua, coauthor of The New I Do, tells Refinery29 via phone.
The images were in stark contrast to gory crime scene and autopsy photos also displayed of half-naked bodies sprawled among garbage — images that made family members wince, weep and recoil in the gallery.
Dr. Bowe injected my jaw, about two inches below the ear and parallel to the cheekbone injection site, and the pressure was strong enough to make me pull back, wince, and grit my teeth.
New DC routine: Wake up, search WikiLeaks, wince Some Democrats worry Clinton's biggest risk is that her voters think she has the presidency in the bag and will fail to show up to vote.
Adding upper-body strength exercises, such as weightlifting or pushups, to your workout routine feels amazing — that is, until the epic soreness kicks in and you wince reaching for your coffee the next morning.
Maybe you wince when you get the email reminder that your credit card payment is due, or cast bills aside (or even avoid checking your mail), promising yourself that you'll deal with everything later.
We know it is not easy to take off work, to drag your kids into the office, to wait in the waiting room, and to see your kids cry, scream, or wince in pain.
Chaya doesn't require that we love her but, as with all Brown's female protagonists, you know her and you see her, even when she makes us wince, in sympathy, or pain, or even dislike.
You could buy baby water beds, and suites of water bed furniture, including one wince-making number in dark wood paneling, the "Captain Pedestal," that looked like a high boy married to a schooner.
Elsewhere, you may wince afresh when the likable Oliver Tompsett, playing a hipster-looking Shakespeare, says near the end, "There will never be another Anne Hathaway" — before stealing a knowing glance at the audience.
The do-over is much tighter over all with a minimum of wince-and-hide-my-eyes fill, which isn't to say that I wouldn't love to gut the SW corner another six times.
Sean Spicer is wrong: Medical marijuana could help solve the opioid crisis Sean Spicer is wrong: Medical marijuana could help solve the opioid crisis David Bradford couldn't help but wince when he heard it.
We rarely talk about them the way we talk about other accidents, with a wince or a shrug depending on how closely the lives affected resemble our own, but as fables with lessons to impart.
"Pointing out the incongruity of pay at the top and pay at the bottom provokes a reaction because it so violates of our innate sense of fairness it is impossible not to wince," she said.
Huffman is far more unfiltered than other social-media executives, and every time he and I talked in the presence of Reddit's head of P.R., he said at least one thing that made her wince.
Cohen's ability to adlib in character has always been his greatest gift, even if it's tempting to wince at times at his excesses, which can tend to place a higher priority on discomfort than comedy.
Right. In today's "Can Ed Sheeran just leave the fuck alone?" news, he has done a cover of Britney Spears' iconic debut single "...Baby One More Time," which, upon first listen, made me physically wince.
Those of us who believe in an objective morality but wince at the idea of damnation should probably take a harder look at imprisonment, especially life sentences and sequestrations suffered by people like William Blake.
Recounting his achievements in his 2007 memoir "No Way Home," he seems to wince with each step up the ladder, registering the cost — the painful separation from his family, his country, his sense of belonging.
" How that happens is "Richard Jewell's" most wince-inducing element, with Scruggs appearing to use sex to finagle information out of the agent -- a sequence disputed by the AJC's current editor, who called it "offensive.
That also made the fight all the more compelling: Gaethje absorbed damage that makes other fighters wince or circle away, he doubled down and returned fire, and he never looked like he might stop and reconsider.
Shareholders are bound to wince at such political positions, but with Beijing already pushing foreign companies to back its line as it cracks down on democracy protests, American media outfits are caught squarely in the crossfire.
A wince warps Meg Duffy's smile as she recalls her first release as Hand Habits: 2012's Small Shifts, a ten-inch split with Peg, the Long Beach-based solo endeavor of Avi Buffalo's Sheridan Riley.
The Steam Summer Sale is in full swing, that magical event in PC gaming when piles of new games on the popular digital distribution platform get their prices slashes to numbers bargain bins might wince at.
A wince warps Meg Duffy's smile as she recalls her first release as Hand Habits: 2012's  Small Shifts, a ten-inch split with Peg, the Long Beach-based solo endeavor of Avi Buffalo's Sheridan Riley.
Taiko drumming may be rooted in Shinto and Zen, but Kodo's often lighthearted art has no explicit connection with religion, or with the fanaticism of the Den years; indeed, they wince at any mention of "demon".
Instead of jumping with surprise, you shiver, wince, frown, and bear the brunt—never more so than when the action hits the dance floor, and when the editing snaps in time with the bodies in motion.
Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont recall Mr. Sanders's complaints that the Democratic machinery was rigged against him, and wince at the possibility that claims of favoritism or disputes over viability could again prove divisive.
A rotator cuff injury sustained in a dog-walking mishap, when she was pulled abruptly toward a neighbor's cat, still makes her wince and prevents her from competing in the butterfly, one of her signature events.
Microsoft says they'll support any digital assistant on your phone and will last up to eight hours (24 total if you include the juice from the charging case), but they'll ship for a wince-inducing $249.
The sun will stay shining — doing its part to make you smile — but the wind will make it feel as cold as 210 or 230 degrees during the day, and between 21 and 28 tonight. Wince.
But it was the equal of the prestige dramas and superior to "Friends" and "Sex and the City" as a scripted-acted-shot achievement, and reliably funnier (in a wince-inducing way) than any of them.
This inspired group portrait of high school teachers planning a fund-raising telethon brings back all the self-help-seeking klutziness of the decade, with a jargon-laden vocabulary (and wince-making cultural references) to match.
The 2018 video is an effusively rosy, objectively wince-inducing 8-minute lovefest, with a notably diverse cast celebrating everything from K-pop to drag queens, working moms, mental health vloggers, and the Baby Shark meme.
The notion of Shaft as an anachronism also loses its cool quickly, bordering on wince-inducing as the character keeps not only cracking skulls but being casually homophobic and insisting on describing women by particular body parts.
In this provocative and wince-inducing shocker, the director David Guy Levy and the screenwriter Steffen Schlachtenhaufen expose the perversity of the American class system, which allows the decadent rich to buy the complicity of the needy.
"Implicit attitudes might be experienced by patients as microaggressions — for example, a provider's apparent reluctance to touch a fat patient, or a headshake, wince or 'tsk' while noting the patient's weight in the chart," Dr. Chrisler said.
It starts with a brooding, Ned Stark-esque close-up of the alpha-male chimp David sitting on his forest throne, before launching into a political tug-of-war bloodthirsty enough to make George RR Martin wince.
Rodriguez added that she nursed Shakim until he was six months old, despite the excruciating pain many mothers will recognize that still made her wince and clutch her arms over her chest when she spoke about it.
A scene in which Olsen and Plaza sing Kaycee and Jojo's 1997 hit "All My Life" — and the way Ingrid's face telegraphs that she's taking this song much differently than breezy Taylor — is wince-worthy comic gold.
It takes the act of eating—something that's already endlessly policed when it comes to women—and makes it traumatic through scenes that aren't exactly gory, but show just enough viscera to make you wince with discomfort.
Roughly once an episode, Mr. Rife blurts out an off-color remark that makes his co-hosts wince — talking about hot naked yoga to Noah Cyrus, who is 17, or joking about R. Kelly or Bill Cosby.
Moreno) is a recent arrival from New York, a company manager at the fulfillment center (he's cool enough to wince at the implications of the name), where he's overseeing the shipping crew during a busy holiday season.
We wince as Odin sacrifices his eye for absolute knowledge, laugh as an emotional Thor loses his hammer and listen patiently to a lengthy monologue about Torfason's father, who imagined himself to be a modern-day Viking.
" Despite this somewhat lukewarm appraisal, Mr. Barnes wrote that the music "precisely serves its purpose, and its noisy and cheerful conservatism is just right for an audience that might wince at 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Some purists will likely wince at the liberties that are being taken -- "You're ruining my childhood!" having become a popular lament -- but let's face it, in this context a throwback to "Sugar, Sugar" days probably wouldn't cut it.
The reason that Thomas's family reacts in the way it does—and why many audience members will wince when watching the film—is because baby names do serve as a sort of barometer of cultural and social trends.
Before her wince-inducing Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, the education secretary nominee's most visible critics were teachers union leaders, like Randi Weingarten and Lily Eskelsen García, who recognize her as a right-wing advocate of school privatization.
Honestly, listen back to it now—it fucking slaps—and it also offered us actual queer girls the opportunity to reframe a marketing ploy into something powerful in the process—in spite of Volkova's blatant, wince-worthy homophobia.
If he and his team haven't reinvented Tarzan it's because they're working in an industrial context that still puts a premium on heroic white men, even if this one doesn't make you wince each time he turns up.
No matter how few legislative accomplishments Mr. Trump can list, no matter the problems facing "the Wall," no matter if his Twitter posts make them wince, they praised his swagger, his executive orders and his Supreme Court appointment.
" To be sure, critics often turn out to be wrong, as Scott wittily reminds you during a recitation of some notorious critical gaffes: early and wince-inducing takedowns of John Keats's poetry, of "Moby-Dick," of "Bringing Up Baby.
Few observers go quite that far, but Japanese and American officials wince at Mr Trump's casual raising of doubts about his commitment to allies and about his belief in the global economic order that has allowed Japan to prosper.
When we see a black performer in an old movie or a black person in an old interview refer to themselves as "colored" or a "Negro," we do not wince as if they were being called the N-word.
So, dearest critics, wince away As I shout-out, this holiday, The Khizr Khans, that Gold Star clan, And kind Pope Francis, holy man, And Meryl Streep and S. E. Cupp— May all find joy that fills them up!
As the director, Yan isn't particularly concerned with showing you the physical toll of superhero-ing, like the way we see Captain America wince and strap his shield to his bloody, broken arm in Endgame for one more fight.
There's plenty to make you wince, especially once a gaggle of friends and relatives show up at the house the next day, each of them, when introduced to Chris, striving to say the right thing and getting it wrong.
He is not the most diplomatic, and I think sometimes, you know, you have to wince, but then you look at the policies, he's getting some really good stuff done, and the economy is working and people are doing well.
In Christophe Honoré's lurid 2004 Ma Mère, she's a libertine whose sexual adventures have her circling closer and closer to her own son, bringing them to a sex-and-death climax that could make even the hardiest of moviegoers wince.
Trump fans do not care about newspaper headlines calling the new White House chaotic, nor wince in embarrassment when they hear that the president has not got round to naming anyone to fill hundreds of the most important jobs in Washington.
This is the sort of attitude embodied in the "straight-acting only" preference you read on in Grindr profiles, or when gay people wince at the unashamed flamboyance of public figures like Alan Carr, or the drag queens on RuPaul.
Knowing his players are watching the N.B.A. closely, Finamore admitted that the games occasionally had their wince-inducing moments — J. R. Smith's backing up behind the 3-point line and shooting an air ball in Game 4 came immediately to mind.
Many people in the business community wince at the panoply of news reports on American firms attributing rising costs and sometimes layoffs to the tariffs already in place on steel and aluminum and on a range of products from China.
A sun-starved Dubuffet, in 1947, made the first of three trips to Algeria — and there, like Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy before him, the Frenchman married avant-garde painting techniques to an essentialism that might now make you wince.
When Wince was first visited by the ATF in October 2015 about the gun that turned up in the possession of the felon, he told agents he was a hobbyist and only occasionally bought and sold firearms over the internet.
Airbnb has made travel more affordable for people who wince at the bill of a decent hotel, yet it also means that tourism spending doesn't make its way directly to the usual armies of full-time employees: housekeepers, bellhops, cooks.
She does little more than visibly wince when she learns that Jimmy has been selling burner phones on the street — and further, that his assistant, Huell Babineaux, has been arrested for cold cocking a police officer with a bag of sandwiches.
When he got off the phone, after a conversation in which the President's loud talking caused him to "wince," Sondland said Trump doesn't "give a s—t" about Ukraine, only about "big stuff" like an investigation into Biden, Holmes said.
Heaven and hell, of course, lurk in the details, but here are some simple markers: I wince at the thought of allowing insurers to exclude, say, gender reassignment or confirmation surgery (even the name is contested) or late-term abortion.
Though he was given an honorary Oscar in 2015, Lee has never won an Oscar competitively, and "BlacKkKlansman" represents the first time he's even been nominated for best director and best picture, the sort of statistic that makes you wince.
I just spent two weeks in Singapore and Thailand; last year I spent time in Hong Kong and Shenzhen; and compared to modern Asia, so much American infrastructure is now so contemptible that it's hard not to wince when I see it.
At the gig itself, part of a bill booked by Singh, she uses Matt like a human stage, jumping on his stomach like a trampoline and dropping to her knees in a way that makes a number of people in the audience wince.
On the flip side, you have Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins, and an example that suggests women can be fierce and commanding of respect, without being beat up by men in a way that makes the audience do a full-body wince.
Yet once the crowds, many of them children, eventually filled the humongous aircraft hanger-sized hall at the Fiera Milano, there was much to savor as Khachanov and Medvedev showcased their considerable skills — and the new rules that would make traditionalists wince.
The nastiest garbage tickets in a windswept obstructed-view belfry of San Francisco's Levi's Stadium, the Super Bowl 210 host, are priced at nearly $220,249, meaning most humans alive cannot afford to watch Peyton Manning wince and hobble around in person on Sunday.
But he also made some Democrats wince, in cutting education spending and the dividend fund paid to residents, which budget analysts at the University of Alaska said would hit poorer residents hardest because a state check is a bigger part of their income.
Clinton had a spring in her step, as she made her Secret Service agents wince by walking across the road — her bright red pantsuit popping from within the scrum — to pose for selfies with supporters who lined the street outside the event.
Looking back, all these years later, I can only wince that I was a relative neophyte at the time and allowed too much negative opinion about the Marlins — they played in a football stadium, for goodness' sake — to infiltrate what I wrote.
A paper published last week in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B by Les Hearn, a retired science teacher, and Amanda Williams, a psychologist seeking evidence of chronic pain in other species, collects the wince-inducing tales of hundreds of dinosaur injuries.
As much as Mr. Erdogan would wince at the sight of thousands of antigovernment protesters marching into Istanbul, some analysts contend that he may feel he has more to lose by rounding them up and making a hero out of Mr. Kilicdaroglu.
In severe cases of penile cancer, some or all of the penis is removed, which—speaking selfishly as a selfish man who can't help but selfishly wince while writing this selfish sentence—is perhaps the best reason I've ever heard for getting the HPV vaccine.
Letter To the Editor: Re "When Liberals Become Progressives," by Greg Weiner (Op-Ed, April 14): I wince when I hear my fellow liberals describe themselves as "progressive," but not because I believe that the term "liberal" is inherently superior, as Mr. Weiner does.
Gary Oldman plays him incredibly well, and I think the movie balances his slightly ferocious side with the anguish he faced in inspiring England to win World War II. In many instances, the onscreen depictions of my grandfather make me wince because they're not accurate.
EditorsNote: fixes to "past seven games" in third graf Hot-hitting Naquin leads Indians past Mariners SEATTLE — The smile Seattle Mariners star Robinson Cano flashed as he stepped in front of reporters in the postgame clubhouse late Thursday night looked more like a wince.
Mildred isn't what you'd call a "likable" character — her cruel treatment of James (Peter Dinklage), who's just trying to take her on a date, is especially wince-inducing — but she's a grieving mother and an ass-kicker and certainly a relatable character for many viewers.
"Those closest to the pain should be closest to the power," Pressley would say during her campaign—another striking line that, like her slogan, is sure to make certain Democrats wince, as it implicitly pits groups (minorities, working people) against others (whites, the wealthy).
Rich Krueger: Life Ain't That Long (Rockink) Born on a Wednesday full of woe, a 58-year-old Chicago neonatologist undertakes to show the world he's also a major songwriter, complete with wavery high baritone that hurts so much it'll make ordinary mortals wince.
Sometimes the camera scoots, too, staying a few feet ahead of him and facing backward down the sidewalk, just to heighten the rush of risk, and you feel everybody in the cinema wince when a jolt over a curb sends him sprawling into the road.
When a model appeared in a gray knit body suit and tights beneath a big-shouldered sweater, scarf ends like flying buttresses extending to the floor behind, it was hard not to wince at the extreme contrast between her upper body and her frail legs.
"The evidence would be a short swing, a quick transition, a wince here or there at a golf course where he so obviously showed the full extent of his injuries and his pain," Chamblee said, referring to Woods' win at the 2008 U.S. Open.
Alan Strachan's West End revival of "How the Other Half Loves" reclaimed Alan Ayckbourn's 1969 play for keeps, its portrait of the marital fissures and multiple betrayals across three couples constituting a master class in astringent comedy that made audiences laugh and wince in turn.
And just as many people revile booze-fueled Halloween parties for grown-ups, so do some nutritionists and dentists wince at some of the places that donated candy winds up: food banks, soup kitchens and in the hands of poor children with other pressing needs.
The characters laze and roast beneath the sun, glowing like peaches in the heat, yet ripeness is not all; it has to contend with harshness, and you wince when a woman lies down near the sea, her bare flesh bedded on the coral-rough rocks.
The subscription business model made me wince at first, but auditory erotica doesn't exactly lend itself to an advertising business model, after all, and once I listened to a few of Dipsea's short stories, I understood that the service is something many women would pay for.
Wyatt was strict about who got the medicine ever since one of the younger Lost Boys made himself sick chugging cough syrup, and he never used it himself, never took a single pill, even though Violet knew the scar along his hips made him wince sometimes.
You wince as you read the opening chapters, knowing that, with the fateful inevitability of Greek tragedy, the composer-songwriter-singer is going to sign a deal with a rapacious music publisher as a dewy-eyed youngster and then spend the rest of his life regretting it.
What makes the game so good is the way it puts you into situations that will make you wince or squirm, situations you might be fortunate enough to avoid in real life — and then it forces you to discover the choice you'd make in that role.
Second, foreign-policy hawks, who cheered when, two months after entering the Senate, he wrote to Iran's leaders, warning them that any nuclear agreement they struck with President Barack Obama might be overturned by Congress—a letter that made Senate veterans wince, though 46 other senators eventually signed it.
It may make one wince to see Senator Bernie Sanders obliged (as he was on Monday at a town hall hosted by CNN) to explain once more that the totalitarian statism of the Soviet Union had nothing to do with the (far older) tradition of democratic socialist thought.
Each time that the President stands as the voice of a reactionary Republican Party -- the party of the white male backlash -- and Republican leaders do nothing to stop him other than wince and whine, the party moves farther away from the goal of creating a durable political coalition.
Often I will find myself becoming overwhelmed thinking back on all the embarrassing things I've ever done, of all the people I may have offended over the years, of all the times I spoke too aggressively, acted too strangely or did something that made people wince or feel awkward.
Alex's addiction, meanwhile, is treated with similar subtlety and, without wanting to give to much away, his falling off the wagon at a pivotal moment in the story made me wince—it succeeds in capturing the way in which addiction compels people to act in ways wildly against their own interests.
That is, if you don't put too high a price on coherence and character depth and are not the type to wince at music biopic cliches or self-referential jokes by Mike Myers, whose attempt at a comedic turn as a music label executive really is the weakest link here.
For mom Elsa (Leigh), that includes striking up a flirtation with a bartender (Raul Castillo) -- causing her to wince when someone mentions the need for "self-care" at her support group -- while carrying a lingering grudge against her husband (Michael Rapaport), who had trouble dealing with Sam in the past.
The last should especially draw a wince from Trump's Vice President, Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceFEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding Log Cabin Republicans endorse Trump MORE, who was Indiana's governor from 2013 to 2017.
"Twelve years after its conclusion, I still wince thinking about it and find that if I do not repress the memory, its recollection still provokes a vague but real feeling that I had lost something very important, something that was sacrificed in the pursuit of gratifying ambitions, my own and others."
"This historically problematic holiday — Columbus never actually set foot on the continental U.S. — has made an increasing number of people wince, given the enslavement and genocide of Native American people that followed in the wake of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria," writes Yvonne Zipp for The Christian Science Monitor.
And it also means that when that evening, at another bar, two chic Dutch women were surprised to learn that she was Syrian and came as a refugee, and that she speaks both Dutch and English, Souad didn't visibly wince but stayed gracious, even posing for a photo with them.
As art historian Noah Charney points out in the Washington Post, the museum's somewhat unorthodox previous director Steve Carroll — who made museum curators everywhere wince by dissolving an Egyptian mummy mask in Palmolive oil to try to get to any textual fragments incorporated into the wrapping — left the museum in 2012.
Something makes us "cringe" or "wince," or prompts a "knee-jerk" or "gut" reaction, or "leaves a bad taste in your mouth": The metaphors we use to describe what offends our sensibilities frequently involve the body, as if our dislike lies beyond the realm of reason and explanation, which it very often does.
You can see Molly wince when Rasheeda ends her sentences with "girl" or tells off-color jokes to white co-workers about finding a man so attractive she had to send herself to HR. When Molly takes her aside and suggest that she "switch it up a little bit" Rasheeda takes offense.
The distinctive magic of the Merchant Ivory world comes from the juxtaposition of Jhabvala's verbal austerity and the sumptuous, almost unforgivably stylish scenes laid by Ivory, where every precisely delivered word, wink, or wince finds its material counterpart in the polished salt cellar, the floppy lock, and the sun-saturated Tuscan earth.
After delivering an address at the United Nations on Tuesday in which he threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea and inspired his own chief of staff to noticeably wince, Donald Trump finally got around to commenting on something that had apparently perturbed him for the previous couple of days: the 2017 Emmy Awards.
During Yao's lab experiments with poop—let's all try not to imagine what that involved—when starches and fructans (sugars found in fruits and veg) were combined with protein, it decreased the amount of hydrogen sulfide, the sulfur-causing gas that makes people wince during a sphincter siren, by a staggering 90 percent, Yao says.
As much as I've enjoyed the cinematic spectacle of the Uncharted games, my favorite non-Jak & Daxter game from Naughty Dog is The Last of Us. It's why I couldn't help but wince when The Last of Us game director Bruce Straley announced he was leaving Naughty Dog, after 18 years at the studio.
Just over two weeks into Mr. Biden's candidacy, the most notable feature of his campaign may be what hasn't happened: He has not blurted anything out that delights his rivals, horrifies his aides and reinforces his image as "Uncle Joe," America's there-he-goes-again relative who makes you smile and wince in equal measure.
"Each volley in the U.S.-China trade dispute causes semiconductor companies to wince and financial markets to wobble, while pushing us farther from a deal that would benefit both economies, the two largest in the world," John Neuffer, the Semiconductor Industry Association's president and chief executive, said Friday after news of China's unreliable entities list.
I wince at paying 2879,2130 Egyptian pounds for an Indian dinner for four at the palatial Mena House Hotel by the foot of the pyramids, and relish finding a sidewalk cafe where a large, tasty helping of koshary (a hearty dish of pasta, lentils and rice topped with spicy tomato sauce) and a cola cost 2100 pounds.
Visitors of all sorts can shudder, as one, at slave shackles small enough to fit a young child's wrists, and wince at the glass-topped coffin that once held Emmett Till, the 14-year-old whose lynching in Mississippi in 1955 (allegedly for whistling at a white woman) was one of the sparks that inflamed the civil-rights movement.
Wince told federal authorities he was "addicted" to websites devoted to buying, selling and trading guns and sold up to two dozen firearms even after he had been questioned by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over how one of his guns ended up in the hands of a convicted felon, according to court documents.
It's part of a mass normalization of ugly rhetoric, a cultural shift where we've become numb to words that would once make us wince, a decades-long form of cultural astroturfing to make racism seem normal in online spaces, a way of using shitposting to make sure spaces remain unsafe for people who aren't like them.
Although they occasionally make me wince when I listen to them now, each song bringing with it a memory of some hilariously bad poem I uploaded to DeviantArt, bands like Jack Off Jill and Queenadreena gutted the dichotomy of being sexual and relentlessly self-destructive in a wildly misogynist world and painted the walls with it.
The most recent goes on about Nero—"At night in his garden, Christian torches glow / He entertained the masses with fiddle and bow"—before observing that "a lie is a lie, and not 'fake news,'" and should you wonder what a Christian torch is, the CD comes with a useful booklet that will also make you wince.
Before that, everyone was too entranced by the $50 Zara fake lizard loafers to focus on the somewhat wince-worthy implications of choosing to depart for Africa in a suede Vince coat and leopard heels, to wear a tan Joseph safari dress to arrive in Malawi, and a shirtdress printed with emus and rhinos to leave Kenya.
The tragedy in El Paso came up often in the first hour, making me wince that it is being exploited for political gain, but hoping at the same time that the deadly shooting — and the ones in Odessa, Sutherland Springs and Santa Fe — can be used to change the conversation about guns, not to mention immigration.
Americans might distrust the C.I.A. and wince when recalling its verdict that Hussein's nuclear, chemical and biological capacity was a "slam dunk," but even Democrats might be seduced by Mossad's reputation and susceptible to Mr. Netanyahu's mishmash of stale reporting, truisms and outright hucksterism, especially given the credibility the current Israeli government enjoys in key constituencies.
Nah. In what appears to be his need to fit in as a (extreme air quotes coming right up) "stretch big," Howard has started to regurgitate jump shots that make the backboard wince (Hornets play-by-play man Eric Collins referred to one that actually went in as "a little Scottie Pippen action" in a recent display of peak optimism).
We wince at the brutality of parents who ship their young kids around to perform for adults at the expense of their childhood—but, then, that was Mozart's childhood, and though by the end Mozart may have wished for less attention as a kid performer and more as a grownup composer, he never for a moment wished not to be Mozart.
Watching Hannah lay out the plan for her own suicide in the 12th episode, for instance, feels so on-the-nose you want to wince, but the brooding Roman Remains cover of "The Killing Moon" that glimmers in the background evens out the creases and aligns it with cult indie cinema like Donnie Darko, rather than a Netflix show that would otherwise be sub-par.
"An economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only things that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations," he said, drawing what looked like a wince from Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhy President Trump needs to speak out on Hong Kong Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
Taking every sentiment you set as your MSN screen name that you'd wince at now and turning it into a modern brand could potentially be covered by Vogue, there has never been a more 2017 artist than Lil Peep—which gives him a lot of currency right now but the hyper-specificity of it means his future is basically in the hands of his fanbase.
That they also are part of the identity the first lady brought to Washington — that her comfort level and ability to walk in exactly the kind of shoes that cause other women, wearing more solid shoes, to wince and crunch their toes in imaginary pain was part of her narrative and image from the start — does not obviate the fact that they have also come to represent her remove, for both good and ill.
He tells the Ranger the story of the time Coyote got bored with life and crawled into his own asshole and all the world went dark, but the Ranger says he is tired of stories with happy endings, and he peels off his mask (an experience not unlike pulling your pants down in church, he remarks with an embarrassed wince as it rips away), exchanges his white hat for a black one, and borrows Tonto's bandy-legged old paint, Scout, to hobble down into the mining town and raise a little hell, announcing himself, guns blazing, as a wild-ass Cavendish cousin.

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