The utility also has its share of critics: Big businesses sometimes wince at paying the efficiency charge.
"I sometimes wince at the nasty incisions I inflicted on writers when I crossed the line between cutup and cutthroat," he says.
While purists may sometimes wince at the old boy's choice of parts – although I enjoyed The Mask of Zorro – the California-based Welshman rarely puts a foot wrong when it comes to maintaining his role as a national treasure.
Mars sometimes winces as he dances, screwing his face into a kind of elegant grimace.
If musicians, impresarios and marketing departments sometimes winced at Mr. Crutchfield's judgments, editors and the public found him a breath of fresh air.
In the stands, watching Mr. Horton and sometimes wincing at the shriek of some three-dozen modifieds, were several thousand spectators, most of them in T-shirts.
What matters to Ms. Polley is how each person organizes those memories, with love, humor, regret, self-interest or, in the case of Michael Polley, a sometimes wincing mix of emotional detachment and lacerating humor.
At its height Allardyce portrayed the Spaniard as precious and snobbish, while Benítez suggested his rival's gamesmanship and sometimes wince-inducingly direct approach was damaging the game's soul.
By the time Huler comes home to his loving wife, just in time for the birth of their son — an echo of Odysseus' return to Penelope — Huler's real-life epiphanies outweigh his sometimes wince-inducing turns of phrase.
That was back when we had to be subtle, back when we didn't want to incur the wince of "hets" (as we sometimes called straight people) who hadn't yet guessed that our short hair and long stride meant we were… that way.
