Sentence examples for Grudging appreciation from inspiring English sources
This time the shortfall between lionization abroad and grudging appreciation at home is not as pronounced.
Her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, told biographers that she had had a "grudging appreciation" of Lumet's film, but was doubtful about Finney's Poirot moustache.
"They make Champagne there?" Well-worn mockery, perhaps, but an indication that grudging appreciation from the Champagne establishment is not so easy to come by.
"You just have to learn to handle that situation and understand that we all go through it sooner or later," Cal Ripken said, referring to how grand achievement can turn into grudging appreciation, or worse.
At first, I thought the building was an eyesore but have since developed a grudging appreciation for its unapologetic character and the visual break from the strip malls that dominate the stretch of road it's located on.
The Iranian leadership has condemned the blast as the work of the Israelis, the Americans and the British, leveling a charge that aims to rally all Muslims behind it; it has also called for calm in Iraq, thereby winning grudging appreciation of regional leaders, and it still has the chaos in Iraq as a foil to deflect American attention from Iran's own nuclear program, analysts in the region said.
Stalin again gave grudging support.
I've tried not to hold grudges.
