Sentences with phrase «groveling for»

Nothing more nauseating than an experienced person groveling for love from an employer who doesn't appreciate what they offer.

Still, the idea of paradise is philosophically dangerous — it makes us imagine ourselves flawed descendants, groveling for a past version of ourselves that was perfect (but never actually existed).

His posture changes from ready and prepared to weary yet groveling for more revenge on the enemies he believes he is facing.

Groveling for free throws is gauche.

«We're always groveling for forgiveness.»

Their founders beg and grovel for coverage.

I read this and come to the same conclusion as most Americans... the Obama Administration has destroyed our economy to the point that even our elders have to sell themselves out and grovel for money.

It's so pathetic watching you tools grovel for a superior being to handle your own life.

Sometimes, like shortly after an untactful remark about the wife's latest dress, you have to grovel for forgiveness.

According to the MSNBC anchors, senior White House officials reached out to them to offer their help in spiking a disparaging National Enquirer story, on the condition the pair call Trump to grovel for the favor and pledge to ease up on their adversarial coverage.

As a connoisseur of forced apologies — Michael Howard once sent him to Liverpool to grovel for criticising the city's «mawkish sentimentality» — the Mayor of London is forgiving.

The man who once declared that «I am the government» all but groveled for the WFP's nod, publicly endorsing a slew of so - called progressive policy initiatives — from public campaign financing to a minimum wage hike — that he had previously declined to put any political muscle behind.

My problem is I may not have 10 years left to grovel for a chance and even if I do I won't be taking that route.

By the time the hero groveled for the affections of the woman he'd once forced, the readers had more than forgiven him - they adored him to0.

Damn you PETA, don't you know it's we who should be grovelling for the tiniest morsel of Mama's approval, not vice versa!

The day is not a grovel for the past but an opportunity to celebrate a bright, united future «for all of us».

If they want a Com - free home on MLS, they are expected to not use their Realtor or the Realtor has to grovel for a small amount to perhaps be paid after an offer is presented.

Not exact matches

Startups grovel and whine for coverage.

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.

If you're not remembering any made - for - TV White House meetings in which Medicaid or food stamps beneficiaries detailed their plight to President Trump and made the case for increased benefits, that's because such open groveling only happens with business titans.

If nothing else, Vice News Tonight deserves cheers for eschewing that staple of the groveling - for - ratings network evening newscasts.

There are many things for which I repent... but I no longer go groveling to God to forgive or take away something beautiful that is a part of who I am.

Unlike you I don't grovel like a maggot for forgiven like you or your brethen.

When NATO is done groveling will the Muslim caveman idiots who rioted be making any apologies for their actions?

It is the christard who feel that they were born «sinful» and feel they must grovel before their god lest they be punished for eternity

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.

The Shah of Iran was hated because he was so eager for the approval of the West that he seemed to grovel, especially to the Americans.

We have done everything wrong, and we have turned away from Him, and we have gone to war with Him, yet rather than make us claw our way back to Him and grovel before Him, begging for his forgiveness, He comes running after us, seeking to restore the friendship with us that He lost when we left.

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.

They «lll drop to their knees, grovel before their imaginary god, and beg to be told what, oh what, to do; then their pathetic little minds will lead them down whatever path is the meanest and most destructive to freedom for anyone who doesn't share their supernatural delusions.

They have ruined our economy so much even our elders have to grovel and sell out for money.

It is unfair to criticize the schoolmen for their indifference to the inductive process, unwise to defend them on the ground that they had minds too lofty to be content grovelling among the data of sense....

Love doesn't struct, doesn't have a swelled head, doesn't force itself on others, isn't always «me first,» doesn't fly off the handle, doesn't keep score of the sins of others, doesn't revel when others grovel, takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trusts God always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end.

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.

Prayer begging for health, safety, eternal life and much more groveling.

Furthermore, there is nothing whatever to be said for a groveling attitude before God, as if he were a rigorous moralist or a tyrannical master.

They're already on the menu, along with gluten free options, so no asking necessary (though on that note, it was my experience across the states that it's totally socially acceptable to customise your meal, unlike in Australia where you have to grovel and hang your head in shame whilst the chef makes up their mind whether they can be bothered adjusting their menu for you.

«Groveling, begging, I'm old and he felt sorry for me,» D'Antoni says.

Jose Mourinho has been forced to make a grovelling apology to the Chelsea supporters, who he criticised for being too quiet after the club's weekend victory over Queens Park Rangers.

Tiefenbrun was condemned for lacking political maturity and forced to issue a grovelling resignation.

In his first session as majority leader, he helped ensure that Mr. de Blasio, no friend of Senate Republicans, will need to go to Albany next year to grovel again for the renewal of mayoral control of public schools.

Should Stewart - Cousins grovel to Klein and promise that one day, she will support him for majority leader in exchange for Democratic unity?

He also sent a grovelling email to Labour supporters apologising for hurting the party's campaign.

Do not grovel, even if you desperately want to take the other person out for a date.

Tommy desperately wants her back, and in more than one scene he disintegrates into a groveling fool for love.

Elizabeth Hurley portrays Sandra, a beautiful Englishwoman groveling (drug free) for her own position as a high - powered TV executive.

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.

By the end of CHRISTMAS, they've lost their backbones, settling into groveling to their moms for forgiveness after each has a needed exchange with their elder.

The same goes for Choi Min - suk's intensely physical lead performance, which careens from raving belligerence to groveling abjection.

Crows have no alarm call for walk off, or grovel your way back across the underworld.