Sentence examples for first cringe from inspiring English sources

It was one of the first "cringe comedies," in which the humor is grounded in the painful humiliations experienced by its protagonist — in this case, a wonderfully stoic Matthew Broderick, playing the unfortunate young real estate executive who, in a moment of moral weakness, tries to bribe his cable installer into giving him the movie channels free.

The first cringe moment for me, glued in a wing chair by the flat screen tube, was when the Hollywood rain menaced to threaten the parade, but finally went away on cue, a real pro.

He started taking acting classes as a teenager and revealed to Parade Magazine why he'll never forget his first cringe-worthy love scene.

When Reed snared Mark Loretta's chopper in the sixth, he cringed when the ball hit his glove.

I took it slowly at first and I cringe when I hear step-parents laying down the law within weeks.

Every single time a press release carries either one of these words in the first sentence, I cringe.

But not everyone I know has a cringe first email story.

Those of us who belong to the second group, however, cringe at the thought of noticeable makeup.

For example, don't play games like "who cringes first" with edgeless demo swords.

The thought of that first day made him cringe.

Meanjin editor Jonathan Green said it was apt that "the idea of the cultural cringe was first expressed in Meanjin".