Sentence examples for make us squirm from inspiring English sources
Some 30 years on, "The Homecoming" is reasserting its power to make us squirm.
"If advertising deodorant doesn't make us squirm then we aren't doing our job".
He is going to make us squirm in places we did not previously assume were capable of squirming.
They are fun-house mirror versions of our own bodies, just close enough to make us squirm in recognition.
Throughout, it sprinkles scraps of recorded dialogue that are designed to make us squirm with hindsight, at once sorrowful and knowing: "I don't think I'm going to be all that famous," the youthful Winehouse says.
Humbert Humbert, the enraptured connoisseur of nymphet love in Lolita, makes us squirm with distaste.
From her first appearance, Alice either stretches our belief or makes us squirm.
And unfortunately for Instagram and Facebook, consciously feeding our hearts into machines still makes us squirm, at least a little.
But its vision is so benign and its attitude toward its characters so affectionate that instead of making us squirm, it casts a rose-colored glow of nostalgia.
In moments when another writer, a more polite or a less relentless writer, might pull back and allow her character privacy, Gaitskill accelerates into a close-up, making us squirm with the knowledge of our unappeasable appetite for the secrets and misfortunes of others.
