Sentences with phrase «while cowering»

While cowering underneath an awning with some fellow citizens, I overheard one of them say, «Only in New York!»

While you cower in fear over the «brown boogeymans» of the world, the real villians are plotting how to send your kids off to die in foreign wars for their gain and how to steal more of your hard earned money through austerity measures and taxes.

«But while we cower in fear and fret about whether to admit clever foreigners from other nations - America, Australia and Canada are already sailing on that tide of talent.»

I'd developed skills that made experts in the none - too - gentle arts of torture twitch with envy, even while they cowered in fear.

Not exact matches

The cat would dart out of a hole in the plank fence and swat my dog across the face, and then stand there, dominant, while my dog cowered.

For a civilian to stand against that while others cowered, is exceptional.

How can we ever affect change while these people cower in the closet afraid of what their friends, families, jobs and teachers might think?

Are we committed to being obedient to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission of Jesus or are we cowering in fear while ignoring the Bible's most frequent command, «Do not fear!»?

Because I seem to recall Austin being the one laying on the ground cowering in fear with his hands covering his head praying not to be hurt, despite the fact that HE was the one who charged the mound, while Kelly was giving it to him.

Is that because breast - feeders freely tout their breast - feeding - is - healthier agenda, while formula - feeders cower in the closet with a bottle and a baby, afraid to promote their choice?

The ONLY Democrat who'll take a stand while the rest are cowering behind the corner.

'' «While Gordon Brown cowers in Downing Street, his henchmen are out and about to attack me personally rather than engage in rational debate,» said Mr Davis, who resigned his seat in protest at Labour plans for six - week detention without charge.

While all around it cower from the cold and wind high in the Himalayas, one plant stands tall.

Placed in the room a third time, once more alone, the socialized rats boldly explored more new places than ever, while solo rats continued to cower.

In the days of the Jurassic, dinosaurs ruled the Earth, while early mammals cowered in their shadows.

While I had done it intentionally, and done it in hopes of gaining insights into a way to more reliably help people lose fat without a compensatory drop in metabolic rate (and eventual rebound weight gain), I instead felt compelled to cower away from the health world in a dark corner, putting all of my mental energy into new endeavors so that I didn't have to face my big fat failure.

Thank you for the beautiful photos while it's 11 degrees here and I'm cowering over a space heater in my office!

(The movie's gender - reversal twist is that, in this world, the women generally do the fighting while the men often cower away in a corner.

A joyously choreographed dance number in a techno club is straight out of the Bob Fosse handbook, while in another tragicomic scene, Marina, finally pushed too far, leaps up and down on a car as Orlando's relatives cower inside.

Instead, Lee and Evelyn sit there, cowering in silence (as they should be) while my ear drums are getting blown out by an almost Hans Zimmer-esque score.

Taking over for Gary Ross, who directed last year's original «Hunger Games,» Lawrence keeps the action buzzing briskly while also providing a clearer and more daunting sense of the totalitarian regime that has kept the citizens of dystopian, futuristic Panem cowering in poverty and fear.

There's a brilliant scene early on where Julien is dropped off at his grandparents house and he has to go through the charade of checking to see if his mother is there while Antoine waits outside, aware that his former in - laws are cowering behind the drapes.

In others, as when he and Grahame catch an afternoon matinee of Ridley Scott's Alien, she takes the reins, loudly guffawing at all the stomach - bursting gore while Turner and the rest of the audience cower in fright.

While her neighbors cower inside their homes, Emma goes searching for help in a nearby town and hires bounty hunter Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), who in turn recruits six other men — drunken gambler Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), former Confederate sharpshooter Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), knives expert Billy Rocks (Byung - hun Lee), fur trapper Jack Horne (Vincent D'Onofrio), Mexican outlaw Vasquez (Manuel Garcia - Rulfo) and Comanche warrior Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier)-- to protect the town and put an end to Bogue's tyranny.

While many of the dogs cringed and cowered as they were led or carried into the barn, the four mud smeared Dalmatians trotted in with heads held high and tails fanning the air.

The video shows Jules charging towards one of the bears at the 30 - second mark while the other bear friend looked on helplessly, cowering in fear.

A disturbing sign concerning timid, abused, neglected or overly - trained animals is that while they may «respond» to their name, they also shiver, cower, flinch or urinate.

In one study on firework anxiety, dogs exhibited more overt signs like pacing and panting, while cats hid and cowered.3 This difference is likely to occur during storms as well.

That would not explain their fear of vacuum cleaners, TV's or washing machines or explain why sometimes they cower and balk when going through doorways - unless of course a man had beaten them with a vacuum cleaner while they were tied to a washing machine in a doorway with a TV on loud in the background.

Some of them cowered at the back of their cage, clearly traumatised by their ordeal, while others wagged their tails nervously and even offered me a paw.

While dogs trained along those lines above will simply fail and cower, or run away.

In one study on firework anxiety, cats hid and cowered while dogs exhibited more overt signs like pacing and panting.1 While it is difficult to miss a 90 - pound Labrador jumping on the couch with you during fireworks, it is easy to miss a hidingwhile dogs exhibited more overt signs like pacing and panting.1 While it is difficult to miss a 90 - pound Labrador jumping on the couch with you during fireworks, it is easy to miss a hidingWhile it is difficult to miss a 90 - pound Labrador jumping on the couch with you during fireworks, it is easy to miss a hiding cat.

How is it that some dogs deal with these stimuli without batting an eye, while others cower behind their owners with little or no apparent provocation?

While there are some breeds that cower from the cold, just like you, there are many that absolutely love it.

All the while my «vicious pit» as you would say, was out side on a run in my yard, cowering in the shed because of those dogs.

Our volunteer noticed him cowering in a corner of his run at that shelter while there picking up another dog.

Some dogs may cower, while others may be aggressive around strangers or other dogs.

While most of the other dogs were very frightened and cowered from the camera, Lucas proudly hopped on top of his doghouse, wagging his tail nonstop and posing for the camera.

Some dogs cower in such settings, while other gain in confidence and become bullies.

Some of the animals were young puppies while others were older, scared and cowering.

Dogs have more sensitive ears than humans do and while some dogs don't appear to mind the noise, others will bark, whine, howl, hide, cower or run into furniture and walls, said Dr. Melissa Bain of the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine's Clinical Animal Behavior Service.

Some dogs are not bothered by unusual noises at all, while others can shiver and shake and cower in corners, and generally behave like real sooks.

While a trip to the vet's office makes his sister cower, Buzz takes the opportunity to turn on the charm.

They feel like a half baked stand - in for the guards of the previous episodes and do little to effect real gameplay other than make you cower in a corner for while.

One of mine, harvesting a corpse while I was fending off splicers and the other cowering behind a Daddy I accidentally pissed off (thus had to kill) during the shoot - out.

Instead of cowering behind a shield and popping out of it once and a while to get a hit in, I was in there, wrecking shit as I go along.

The intense, fast - paced action, had me cowering on the floor for a while there.

While the rest of us will most likely spend the apocalypse cowering in an abandoned supermarket clutching onto our last tin of beans for dear life, he'll be out building a hospital out of corrugated iron, simultaneously killing zombies in the face.

I mean, like, when I gave Josh the last word, above, you must have thought that applied to you too and the coast was now clear, because immediately following my last comment, we see you up and exit the hole in which your momma's boy, timorous butt cowered while the fur was actually flying to get in a tough - guy wannabe, cheap - shot «lick» of your own.

But she had never tried to write words rooted in this kind of anguish — words she hoped would speak for the 17 dead and all who had cowered in closets and under desks while bullets flew at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day.