Sentences with phrase «cowering at»

But he was still cowering at his desk like a whipped dog, and he wouldn't make eye contact with me.

There's no good reason that Kristen ends up cowering at knife - point in a cabin at the edge of the woods.

It's only a game and most gamers have seen worse but there were a few moments watching bears vomit with fear or cowering at your sight just before you bludgeon them to death that feels a bit sick.

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!

Whether you're an MP aspiring for higher office, a precarious minister cowering at the prospect of...

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.

We should not all cower at the small group of atheists and remove a historical item like this just because of a few people who are offended.

I don't see why I have to cower at the thought of an invisible man in the sky to be moral.

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.

Orlock ruefully exclaims as Bobby cowers at his feet.)

David (Joe Seo) has such eternal gratitude to his struggling, somewhat nagging, but ultimately loving parents that he cowers at the very thought of transgressing against their rather traditional ways.

They cower at the inevitable leprechaun guarding the gold, lamenting out loud but accepting the fact that an easy life, one of ice creams all to their own, seems forever out of reach.

Some dogs cower at the sight of a harness before going out for a walk,» he continues.

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.

The fact that Lucky «would cower at the sight of any man and would run away when she saw a leash or chain» shows how much she had suffered.

He is not aggressive, but he needs to learn to trust humans, walk on a leash and not cower at every new sight / sound.

So if you cower at confrontation and can't handle being yelled at, you're probably not ready to run your own company.

Not exact matches

Prince Bader splurged on this controversial and decidedly un-Islamic portrait of Christ at a time when most members of the Saudi elite, including some in the royal family, are cowering under a sweeping crackdown against corruption and self - enrichment.

Is it true a young Satan would cower under the covers at night fearing there was a Jamie Dimon under the bed?

But here's what this data really means: Each year, nearly every student at an American public school is trained to cower under a desk or run for their lives to avoid being murdered by a gunman.

Am I just supposed to cower to your views because you put exclamation points at the end of a sentence... really!

I have NO such fears and have challenged your god many times to come and face me man to god however your god cowers in abject terror at the prospect of facing me he is a craven coward.

You want them to cower in fear at the Birderer's Row (™ Grant Brisbee, used only with permission) that's impossible to pitch around.

Mate I can guarantee that if the going gets tough out there against Stoke at home, Özil will go hiding and cower on the sideline like he does every other tough game he plays in.

Brenna continued to growl and roar at the little girl until she was cowering behind her mother's legs.

Your 16 - month - old may cower, cry, and act downright terrified at the sound of a vacuum cleaner, a thunderstorm, a siren, fireworks, or a popping balloon.

Mr Portuphy at a press conference on Thursday at the party's headquarters said the violent nature of the Invisible Forces, a vigilante group associated with the NPP had cowered the media and men of God in the country into silence.

'' «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.

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).

Some members of the group cower behind menus; others look out the window; some guzzle caffeine; at least one is furtively fingering a BlackBerry under the table.

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.

But for asshat, I like to think that there are at least two NON-asshats — people who celebrate your goodness instead of squash it, and people who WANT you to stand out instead of cower behind them.

These people will usually have animals that cower and even shake at their site.

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.

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.

There were plenty of other problems, though - did anyone else notice the «stone» pillar that Neeson and Zeta - Jones were cowering against at the end of the film SQUISHED when Neeson put his weight on it to stand up??

Wilfried is the terrorist with a conscience, disturbed at the thought of looking like a Nazi — when the Israelis show up, he is the one who tells the cowering hostages to take cover, implying a humane decency that his Palestinian counterparts supposedly lack.

Teens sitting directly behind me in the theater gasped and cowered in their seats at all the right places.

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.

Developer Scott Ethington has revealed that his first solo project, Ripped Pants at Work, will be cowering in fear on Steam in early 2018.

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.

But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a carefully premeditated, murderous rampage.

But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That's what things look like in our cities at present

She looks up at me like she's a monster that should be cowering in darkness.

But much of the Avalon is tundra, known locally as barrens — an open, windswept land home to flocks of ptarmigan and the southernmost wild caribou herd in the world, where the trees, if they grow at all, cower in dense, waist - high thickets known as tuckamore.

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.

Look at how the Stifel analyst is cowering and apologizing for his Sell rating.

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.