Sentences with phrase «of 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.

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

Yes we did go out again, but he had a lot of grovelling and making up to do!»

Cue lots of grovelling and charm offensive on arrival.

Then after seven trials and a sufficient amount of grovelling we decided to start the interview proper.

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.

But all that means is that he is even more of a grovelling, terrified coward than he already has made himself out to be.

Not exact matches

When you grovel, you become «low status» in the eyes of your potential client.

«They didn't send us here to whimper, whine or grovel,» she said on the Senate floor about Democrats, using the populist rhetoric that has given her one of her party's highest profiles.

You know, I always talk about the reporters — they grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear, but not necessarily millions of people want hear or have to hear.»

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.

After 16 years of «legalized bribery,» a public apology and some light grovelling.

I am sure that all the evil spawn have volumes of excuses ready to explain why their god can not protect us but you still have to grovel on your stomach and praise these odious critters.

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.

I certainly hope so,,, The Arab Spring has put hard liners in charge of every nation it has touched,,, and anything that keeps muslims groveling in the dirt, penniless and ignorant is a total win.

All About the Beat and The Art of the Public Grovel; American Earth and American Pests; The Lost Spy and The Terminal Spy.

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.

These are pseudo-virtues, which you try to shame us into accepting, by directing a polemic against the Church, whose moral force is due simply to its use of certain radical chic cliches that we were all taught to grovel before back in the 1960s.

However you should feel free to grovel to your heart's content, and I hope you feel better because of it.

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.

So is his life when he must grovel — in order to attain honor; when he must flatter his enemies — in order to attain honor; when he must woo the favor of those he despises — in order to attain honor; when he must betray the one whom he respects — in order to attain honor.

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.

Hence, rational man no longer stood before a mysterious and foreign reality, in front of which he must grovel and to which he must sacrifice his distinctively human aspirations.

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.

The new ardor which burns in his breast consumes in its glow the lower «noes» which formerly beset him, and keeps him immune against infection from the entire groveling portion of his nature.

Those who have it spurn dignities and honors, privileges and advantages, preferring, as I said in a former lecture, to grovel on the common level before the face of God.

But if they accept commercial sponsors and grovel through public «pledge weeks,» then they are accused of selling out.

Within such churches and religious community, the «you are unworthy of god's love but he love you anyway if you will grovel enough but you are never going to grovel enough to please him etc etc etc actually get's casts as «God = I, we, the church.

Many of the public figures profiled in Bauer's «The Art of the Public Grovel» have come back into the public eye, not least President Bill Clinton.

Limbaugh could have stanched the bleeding by practicing what historian Susan Wise Bauer has described as «the art of the public grovel.»

There is some of that good old fashioned christian judgment that we all know to expect from the groveling sycophants of your ilk.

Conforming his life to God's will was not abject groveling before an arbitrary, oriental potentate, but the acceptance (whatever the cost) of spiritual reality.

In certain forms of Christianity, it is similar to the groveling experience of a child who is driven back to a harsh parent by an intense fear of abandonment To be healing, reconciliation must be like the experience of the Prodigal who comes to himself in a breakthrough of self - awareness and realizes that the parent's love has never left him, even in the far country of rebellion.

In spite of these three doctrines, a considerable slice of Christian theology through the centuries has pictured man as groveling in depravity, total or partial.

The cultivator of this science has to become acquainted with so many groveling and horrible superstitions that a presumption easily arises in his mind that any belief that is religious probably is false.

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

St. Capsicum, the patron saint of chile addicts, once wrote in a sermon that «every cutworm must grovel in the mud of the ditch before it climbs atop a row and gnaws down a pepper seedling.»

After the events of the past week you would have thought Liverpool would let the waters calm between themselves and Southampton following the Virgil Van Dijk tapping up fiasco which followed with a grovelling apology from the Merseysiders.

Immediately after the clearly - accidental slip of the mind — and tongue — Anas backtracks in the most grovelling of ways, repeating over and over again how much he loves his wife.

On a day when Trump went out of his way to ignore his National Security Advisor to grovel before his puppet master Putin i would have thought a Faux News condemnation might be newsworthy!

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.

«Andy Burnham was left grovelling last night following remarks made to Progress magazine in which the cabinet minister painted a colourful picture of the relationship between David Davis and Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti.

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.

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.

«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.