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This is 10 minutes of the most embarassing, cringe-making video I have ever watched.
The Wrong Kind Of Snow « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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As an icky ode to the cringe-making magic of sex, "Autoerotic" plays for deliberate laughs the awkward intimacies that usually give mumblecore films a sense of vulnerable reality.
Beat the Heat With a Reel Meal and a Jaunt to Brazil Steve Dollar 2011
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Adeel Akhtar is a cringe-making Guildenstern and Sally Dexter an intelligent Gertrude.
Multiple Personalities at Play Paul Levy 2011
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But something cringe-making happened along the way.
When the Multitude Shouts With One Voice Eric Felten 2011
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Presumably some committee of well-meaning experts sat down and thought this would be a good idea, though at first glance it seems pretty cringe-making.
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"Atheists' arrogance is their Achilles' heel, as cringe-making radio performance has proved."
Christopher Lane: Religious Self-Definition A Major Issue In Dawkins's Poor Debate Performance Christopher Lane 2012
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No longer was he simply a mischievous scamp running circles around the archbishop of Canterbury and barking like a dog; William was now karate-chopping his mother, kicking the servants, and throwing cringe-making tantrums in public.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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No longer was he simply a mischievous scamp running circles around the archbishop of Canterbury and barking like a dog; William was now karate-chopping his mother, kicking the servants, and throwing cringe-making tantrums in public.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Memoirs are bad enough, with their cringe-making confessions, their sordid tale-telling, and their self-important self-examination.
Youth and Prayer 2010
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"This is really uncomfortable," Simon says, adding a cringe-making joke about Casey taking that gig for free food and 50 bucks next week by way of mocking Casey, not to mention his pal -- who, to reiterate, is not watching!
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