Sentence examples for quiver before from inspiring English sources

Corporate lawyers quiver before you.

Ousted children quiver before journalists lest their parents, who are still members, are punished.

THE luminaries of the film world flocked to Los Angeles this week to celebrate the 71st Golden Globe awards and quiver before the unveiling of the Oscar nominations.

Putting aside the fact that we are supposed to quiver before a villain whose surname means – as any fule kno – a pubic wig, there are a number of areas where Torday's novel stumbles badly.

Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it".

This film shakes up that bipartisan trend and makes us quiver before the people profiled because, like it or not, they are us.

Dancers stand in silhouette, their bodies quivering before they flick a flexed foot and crouch to the floor.

You don't have people quivering and trembling before they are about to a career-changing presentation to the C-suite, desperately trying to justify their proposal with reams of data and ROI analyses that some new idea could be a winner.

"I had to become a quivering wreck before social services would offer me any sort of respite," Dawn says.

First bringing to life this mythic figure via his possessions — moccasins, bow and quiver, portraits, many never before shown — and tracing Geronimo's passage into legend via dime novels, movie posters and ephemera, this exhibition then delves into the story of his tribe, including art by 20th- and 21st-century Apache artists.

Like Elizabeth Costello, he seems to quiver with shame and abhorrence before the carnage of animals raised for food: a chapter entitled "On the slaughter of animals" describes the kitchens we see on television cooking programs as if from the estranged eye of the non-carnivore.