"Some are actually having children born to them," he said of gay couples, in disgust, while groveling in the South, as reported in "The Real Romney," the fair-minded biography by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman.
Duncan usually began by explaining how he had trained the dog: "There are persons who have said I must have been very cruel to Rinty in order to get him to act in the pictures," especially in the scenes where the dog is shown "groveling in the dust, shrinking away, his tail between his legs," which Rinty did in "Where the North Begins" and in many films that followed.
Farmers with a literary bent are teaching a Farmers as Writers workshop next month in Oregon: "People may think we're just groveling in the dirt all day, but it does give you time to think about stuff that's bottled up all the time.
That yearning is palpable in Mark Sanford, now groveling for a second chance and a ticket to Congress.
Basically, the only thing he's not raging against is the privileged elite he's groveling in front of for campaign contributions".
"I'm not one of those people that ring up the press and say, 'Look what I'm doing,' but I decided when I was elected to Parliament that I wouldn't be involved in crawling or groveling to the monarchy," Mr. Skinner said.
His favorite part was well-known politicians, sitting in his office, groveling for "donations".
And now the Big Three auto companies, onetime symbol of American capitalist might, are groveling in Washington, DC for their billions.
Longtime members of Alcoholics Anonymous, the husband and wife felt that the most meaningful way to make contact with the jailed actor was through a former charismatic A.A. sponsor -- a man ironically in the midst of surreptitiously groveling before a three-day-sober New New Wave director in the hope of acquiring the latter as a trophy sponsee.
