The apartments were little clusters of dark rooms, where a dozen human beings cringed around a meagre spark of fire, eyeing the two decrepit beds, which they must occupy by turn.
"My vision of myself was mainly cringing around, hiding myself in corners," she says, but "when push came to shove, I was not easily shoved".
If the person with (notice we didn't say "to") whom you're speaking starts to look around, cringe, fidget, stare at their napkin or play with their hors d'oeuvres somewhere in the last 15 minutes of your discourse, you lost your audience.
"It's primarily the cringe factor around people with disabilities breeding, and people with disabilities menstruating, and someone having to care for them," says Christina Ryan from Advocacy for Inclusion.
Plants are not "sensitive new age guys who cringe when something around them gets hurt and who love classical music and hate rock," Dr. Dudley said as she referred to depictions in popular works of plants living tender, emotion-soaked existences, in particular the 1970s "The Secret Life of Plants".
Now every time I see the word "collaborate" in an email, i start to cringe and writhe around in my chair.
It was all-around cringe-inducing.
I want an elegant evening, and the thought of unruly toddlers with no table manners running around makes me cringe.
Another month is just about over, so obviously we have another nine-minute video reel of cringe-worthy FAILS to pass around.
They were pushing a baby carriage and having this dark moment that made everybody around them cringe.
