Sentences with phrase «as cowering»

Other submissive body language will also be displayed such as cowering low, ears pinned back, turning their body sideways and avoiding eye contact, maybe even rolling over to expose their belly.

When in a situation that seems to trigger submissive urination, a dog will tend to display submissive postures, such as cowering, lowering the body, raising the front paws, tucking the tail, flattening the ears back, licking the lips or displaying a submissive grin.

When a rumor spread that «Big Rob» had confessed to the crime, a group of white farmers stormed the county jail and, according to one witness, shot Edwards as he cowered in his cell, then bashed in his skull with crowbars.

They provide an added excuse for solace at my favourite local comic store and a stack of new books to keep me company as I cower from nail guns and busted plumbing.

Someone has been a bit tough on her, as she cowers a bit when she runs over, but it seems like...

Someone has been a bit tough on her, as she cowers a bit when she runs over, but it seems like it might be due to her jumping up on people, not her temperament, which is solid.

In the end it will be a political fight for reason and science; a fight we must win or descend to a intellectual Dark Age in which our descendants might tell will tales of days in the past men who once walked on the moon, as they cower in caves.

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However, just as you can't spend your entire life inside the house, cowering at the thought of contracting a disease, you can't avoid the internet for fear of harming your computer.

And when that same Cruz shot up the school on Valentine's Day, a «pusillanimous» Peterson «cowered in a safe location between two concrete walls» as it «rained bullets upon the teachers and students,» according to the complaint.

Footage posted on social media showed students cowering under desks in one classroom as gunshots rang out.

Just keep cowering in fear of the non-existent invisible sky - god, as you say your useless prayers little man.

We are going somewhere because we come from someone, someone unimaginable yet certainly with the attributes of all the goodness we aspire to, as well as, in some darkly terrifying way, of all the evil and waste that make us cower and may defeat us.

Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than acting cowered as losers are..

What is sad here is that so many come to this page, cowering behind their ignorant notions and interpretations of what God may or may not have said and what someone who others believed to be the son of God, are using their messiah as a shield from behind which they cast stones.

When Jesus, our older brother, presented himself in the sanctuary of God, his humanity fully intact, he did not cower as though he were in a place of «blazing fire and darkness and gloom.»

Would I cower in the corner — completely losing my terrified mind to the fear I feel now as a young adult who hopes it will never happen to her?

But why did we just visit Anfield and play a sh1t Liverpool team that's just been booted out Europe, thrashed by United, and is generally getting outplayed in every game this season only to cower away as if they're top of the league and flying?

Liverpool have refused to cower into panic buying despite their summer transfer plans not going as smooth as expected.

Ozil cowering there as he's meant to mark Williams for the winner.

Policemen with riot shields moved in to quell the trouble and footage filmed by United's players showed them cowering on the floor as they coach came under attack.

I also cowered on the ground as my kids ventured into a literal tornado of bats swirling around.

They lunged forward as if to attack crabs, and cowered from other octopuses, according to Renata Pronk at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues (The Journal of Experimental Biology, DOI: 10.1242 / jeb.040675).

They lunged forward as if to attack crabs, and cowered from other octopuses, according...

Rats given heavy doses of alcohol cowered away in corners of the maze, whereas those given the extract with their alcohol behaved normally and were as inquisitive as rats given no alcohol at all, exploring the more open corridors of the maze.

I was menaced by a life - size Tyrannosaurus Rex (cowering in virtual terror as the beast stomped past / through me) and dropped onto the ledge of an 80 - story Times Square skyscraper (dropping reflexively to hands and knees and crawling backwards to safety).

If you are afraid that occasionally straying off your perfect diet will give you cancer you might as well cower at home under your blankets.

Everytime Colby (my leagle, as we call her) would see Maggie, the boxer, she would cower.

Without a perception of yourself as strong and resilient, you'll find yourself cowering in the face of challenges; feeling intimidated by other people, and weighed down by your own fears and insecurities.

But as I said in an interview recently, life is too short to spend our time cowering behind what is «normal» and saying sorry for what is not.

By the end of the tour I felt happy linking my arm though the Eagle's as we walked through London, and assuming a physical closeness I probably wouldn't have if I hadn't spent an hour and a half cowering at his side!

I no longer cower behind a towel in gym changing rooms, and the idea of baring all to a guy who I like is no longer a fear, but simply an exciting development in a relationship, as it should be.

In Godzilla, the orgy of climactic destruction arrived with what Werner Herzog would simply call the pitilessness of nature, with the tears of a cowering human populace finding a visual and spiritual analogue in the glass - strewn weeping of skyscrapers as they collapse.

Adam and Evelyn have dinner one night with Philip and his fiancée, Jenny (Gretchen Mol), and before long Philip and Evelyn are at each other's throats as Adam and Jenny cower along the sidelines.

You might howl as Sin - Dee storms into a decrepit motel room full of prostitutes and cowering johns and drags Chester's little blonde thing, Dina (Mickey O'Hagan), out by her bleached hair — but you also worry she'll draw blood.

As Darwin, the normally fierce Paul Bettany comes off like a cringing, cowering country beadle right out of Dickens.

It's not as action - packed as «Predator» (it's actually more comparable to «Prometheus» and «Alien: Covenant»), nor as incomprehensible as «Under the Skin» (with which it shares a number of similarities), nor as aloof as «Arrival,» but it's one of those rare drama / horror hybrids that hopes to encourage audiences to think — at the same time that they're cowering.

A fiercely intelligent woman in a world of swaggering men who leer at her like she's an unattended purse, Graham still feels like one of the girls — she cowers before executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as though he's her boss, and maneuvers between the gender - segregated rooms of a cocktail party with an ambidextrousness that alienates her from both sides of the house.

Orlock ruefully exclaims as Bobby cowers at his feet.)

Fimmel has an odd charisma as a barbarian who sees nothing wrong with butchering a group of unarmed, cowering men.

Laughton is excellent as the misshapen bellringer, cowering in the presence of that patron saint of today's Men's Rights Activists, the misogynistic hypocrite Frollo (Sir Cedric Hardwicke).

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.

In one scene, as two known killers are caught and attacked by dozens of raging townspeople, the unwavering depiction of these vilified monsters turning into cowering, terrified men is painful to watch.

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.

In a movie mostly devoid of sympathy, Renfro gives a highly sympathetic performance as the fat, cowering loser, made even more affecting by the fact that, about a month after shooting wrapped, the actor died of a heroin overdose at age 25.

Shawnee Mission West grad Jason Sudeikis cowers as he runs to first base #BigSlickKC pic.twitter.com/BL4 8NUbQwH

As hard as his father Lester (voice of William H. Macy) tries to convince him that the sight of a carving knife or cat are good reasons to immediately cower, his son instead sees these signs as challenges to overcomAs hard as his father Lester (voice of William H. Macy) tries to convince him that the sight of a carving knife or cat are good reasons to immediately cower, his son instead sees these signs as challenges to overcomas his father Lester (voice of William H. Macy) tries to convince him that the sight of a carving knife or cat are good reasons to immediately cower, his son instead sees these signs as challenges to overcomas challenges to overcome.

Paula Patton is able to make the proceedings more watchable than not as the tenacious Brea, and it's appreciative that when her and John's lives are on the line, she doesn't just stand back and cower.

When Jesse is cowering in her drab, dingy roadside digs, there are even a few alluring shades of Mulholland Dr., another film that sees Los Angeles as a seductive beast, sucking starlets in, then sucking the life out of them.

Upon entering Nygaard's house he finds him cowering in the bathroom, as he makes his way to him he steps on a bear trap cleverly concealed by clothes.

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.