Grudging

Grudging gestures and belated rhetoric from the White House habitually a half an hour behind the times doesn't change that.

Michael Brenner: Obama on Moving Sands Michael Brenner 2011

Grudging gestures and belated rhetoric from the White House habitually a half an hour behind the times doesn't change that.

Michael Brenner: Obama on Moving Sands Michael Brenner 2011

* Grudging concession of the day: David Brooks admits the secret money is a "menace" -- in a throwaway line in the third-to-last paragraph of a column devoted to trashing Dems for making the same point.

The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2010

Grudging gestures and belated rhetoric from the White House habitually a half an hour behind the times doesn't change that.

Michael Brenner: Obama on Moving Sands Michael Brenner 2011

Grudging, because I think you are unneccessarly rude and aggressive, you have no style and put down people, who try to give you things to think about.

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

Grudging acceptance of government intervention through social programs.

Who are the Empiricists?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The Grudging Ombudsman Has anyone noticed that Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the New York Times, seems to have difficulty accepting criticism without lashing out at the paper's critics?

Invidious Bill 2008

Grudging admiration and constant carping just make you look and sound silly, and unless that's what you're actually peddling, it IS silly.

Sam Greenfield: Name Your Kool Aid 2008

Grudging admiration is a little better than none at all and a lot better than outright abuse and slander.

Nature Blog Withdraws Invitation « Climate Audit 2007

Grudging him, at any rate, the addition of this, they urged Horatius to sue for the dedication and, whilst Poplicola was engaged in some military expedition, voted it to Horatius, and conducted him to the Capitol, as though, were Poplicola present, they could not have carried it.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003