Sentences with phrase «seems begrudging»

Pointing to our 100 percent college acceptance rate at Hyde - DC (all four schools combined annually attain 98 percent), Traub seems begrudging when he offers that we «must be doing something right.»

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.

Still, it does remain interesting and quite watchable even if the characters and story are cartoonish, but any aspirations of being a good film get blown into the wind by a grossly overblown deus ex machina ending and is further evidence of De Palma's problem: he has so much fun setting things up he seems begrudging when he has to end it, and it's a letdown both for him and for us that he can't punctuate things properly.

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Mad Men seems to consider that there is something un-American about begrudging money for creative and aspirational projects.

Well isn't that nice?You know the more I hear about this bible makes me wonder about the people who read it.In fact I have been betrayed by more than 90 percent of bible readers I've met.No wonder it's the bible thumpers who seem to begrudge healthcare for those who cant afford it.

Why does everyone seem to begrudge having parties for their children?

Together with her sister, Vinnie (Jennifer Ehle, in a rare role worth her warm talent), and an irreverently modern friend, Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), Emily bats guests, suitors, and uptight relatives around like a cat playing with its food — an intellectual game hunt that seems to fill her father (Keith Carradine) with a mixture of disapproval and begrudging pride.

People seem to love it, and they respond well to it rather than begrudge you, which is what most flash cars seems to accomplish.

Edmunds almost seems to begrudge saying the following: «There is reason to praise the Corvette's cabin.

We should be celebrating the kind of money that Popova is making — I certainly don't begrudge it — rather than seeing her try very hard to make it seem that she's less successful than she is.

It seems that you fall into the category of those who begrudge paying anything for value received.