Sentences with phrase «groveling at»

Is there anyone here who can produce a shread of human dignity, rather than groveling at the Pope's feet, begging for more funding for research into the heliocentric theory of celestial movement?

Yes, it's nice to be worshiped, but really - you want someone who is at your level, not groveling at your feet.

Yes, it's nice to be worshiped, but really — you want someone who is at your level, not groveling at your feet.

But that's just you — I for one do not believe that I need to grovel at the imaginary feet of an imaginary guy for imaginary bad behavior perpetrated by myself or my great - great - gr... eat - grandfather.

Take your rightful place on the trhone of chocolate goddesses and let us mere mortals grovel at your feet!

The organization also groveled at the feet of this year's Cecil B. DeMille winner, Meryl Streep, giving her a nod for Best Actress, Musical Or Comedy for Florence Foster Jenkins, which is also up for musical or comedy best picture.

In the eyes of Publisher's Weekly and many others who either sit on the throne of traditional publishing, or grovel at its feet, we are still nothing more than the illiterate redheaded stepchild.

We can do these things, but instead we bicker on the Internet and then grovel at the feet of the publishers, soaking up their marketing and slapping down pre-orders, granting money and numbers used to please shareholders and drive the deadline culture.

If you want to buy a home but are thinking you must grovel at the feet of a mortgage loan officer to beg for a home loan, think again.

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He has ignored the CEO playbook for a company that faces a crisis of public trust: He does not grovel, he does not evince embarrassment at the size of the lapse.

Stephen Fry speaking about atheists: «The glory — anything — we take credit for what is great about man and we take blame for what is dreadful about man, we neither grovel or apologise at the feet of a god, or are so infantile as to project the idea that we once had a father as human beings and we therefore should have a divine one too.

Having noisily rebelled against Tradition and Authority, it may seem, the founding generation still groveled before God» or at least before God's supposed product, Nature.

Being told that you will suffer for all eternity at the behest of a supposedly loving and just being for the crime of not groveling before it due to a lack of evidence = PRETTY DARNED OFFENSIVE.

While his authorial modesty might elicit our admiration, we should not attribute it entirely to Shakespeare's personality, even if we accept the sonnets as autobiographical, where the persona of the poet can at times seem to grovel, even to the point of self «contempt.

God, at times, has been pictured as a mighty emperor and the worshipper as the most humble subject The traditional prayers of confession in many churches, often dating from the time of the Reformation, seem today to be too groveling.

Someday, perhaps, divers will bring back a bright haul of gold, or at least will learn the identity of the ship, but I doubt if either of these prospects is what really keeps most of them groveling in the rubble of Banner Reef.

But L'Equipe report that the former Barcelona ace issued a grovelling apology to his team - mates at training on Wednesday, with countryman and skipper Thiago Silva acting as translator.

I also worry that arriving at a judgment about Weiner or Spitzer — as if they were groveling exes — is way too compelling a question, compared to differentiating a crowded field of Democratic mayoral hopefuls, or learning the first thing about Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

«There's a shelf life, nobody lasts forever, and add to that that Hillary seems shrill at times and is groveling in changing some of her positions to the left in order to head off Sanders, and you can see why people feel the way they do,» he continued.

Adding a little trim to the shirt and grovel shoes could make this group the trendiest wear in Pakistan at this moment as most of the designers as the choice this kind of fashion.

As Brown's aged, long - estranged mama, Davis — with the aid of terrific star Chadwick Boseman and some pretty expert makeup artists whose numbers Clint Eastwood should find immediately — manages to reinvigorate a set - up familiar from any number of tortured artist - biopics (i.e. absentee parent comes groveling years later to abandoned child - turned - superstar at the peak of his fame) with the same smart, electrifying clarity of character and tender yet tough - minded emotionalism that should be long - recognizable by now to anyone who has seen Doubt or Antwone Fisher or Solaris or Won't Back Down, or else Fences, King Hedley II, or Seven Guitars on Broadway, or, more likely, witnessed Davis» extraordinary, one - woman rescue job on Taylor's The Help.

Emily doesn't grovel and puts up an argument at times.

And personally, if the choice is between admitting that a third party has got hold of some of our data — which will cause embarrassment and apology and a bit of grovelling — , or that we have lost our last copy of our data and so can not continue to operate at and must declare ourselves out of business, I'd choose the grovelling any day.

Christoffer Bugge Harder says: October 27, 2011 at 2:41 am Most impressed with your grovelling and art in logic.