Sentences with phrase «few begrudging»

As a high school teacher, I was known by my students as the «Green Queen» and by a few begrudging colleagues, the «Recycling Bitch.»

Not exact matches

There's millions and millions of churches on every street corner, and you're begrudging them one little meeting where they'll actually be around like - minded individuals for a few hours?

Why do I begrudge the few extra seconds required for that exercise?

Who can begrudge a few years rest to a hard - working self - made man?

If you'll begrudge this writer the use of repetition, a few words should be uttered once more to enforce the fact.

Where I am, we've got a cracking set of candidates to select and very few people who know of him will begrudge Richard Howitt standing.

Though I do not begrudge Ray Donovan its sense of momentum or tension, I was immediately struck by a desire to simply see more of Ray doing his job for a few episodes rather than seeing him deal with his brothers» various problems.

Few would begrudge Woody Allen his status as one of cinema's pre-eminent chroniclers of the follies and foibles of the human heart.

It might tip into sentimentality in places, but it's the kind of sentiment that's entirely earned, and few would begrudge it in a film as warm, sweet and beautifully made as this.

The love triangle is such an afterthought, and has for all four movies, that its inclusion here seems begrudging and obligatory — much like the brief appearances of characters from other films, including those played by Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Jeffrey Wright and the late, much - missed Philip Seymour Hoffman, who show up to briefly orbit Katniss, get maybe a few lines, and duck out.

Hirokazu Kore - eda's Shoplifters swiped the Palme d'Or from hotter tips but few could begrudge this masterful veteran of world cinema his time in the sun

Although the number of begrudged people would be much less than in the first scenario these few people because of having popular blogs would have louder voices.

Hirokazu Kore - eda's Shoplifter swiped the Palme d'Or from hotter tips but few could begrudge this masterful veteran

Given the state of Kickstarter these days I begrudge no one for having perfectly - justified concerns of this sort (hell, I'm in the same boat with quite a few still - unreleased projects I've been looking forward to!).

It is hard to begrudge a museum agreeing to show what is undeniably a masterpiece — the painting is drawing crowds, and hopefully minting more than a few new Basquiat fans — and one never wants to sound churlish, but it has to be said that such temporary shows of the wealthy's latest purchases feel depressingly of the moment, at once a sign of today's vicious income inequality and the precarious state of many publicly funded institutions.

Few people begrudge you for building a better mousetrap, especially if they have a mouse problem.

Perhaps few people would begrudge the glittering river views of the new Whitney building for the AIDS - related anxiety and crushing poverty experienced by New York's LGBTQI community between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s.

Young people have so many things to deal with in their daily lives that few people would begrudge them if they refused to take on the extra burden on advocating for protection of the atmosphere.