(1) The First Minister eventually decided to go to Normandy, but his decision to do so, and the accompanying apology, was seen as grudging and petulant.(2) She gave her grudging approval, though the world must have seemed more dangerous than ever in the midst of a cholera epidemic that claimed sixteen thousand Parisians between March and May 1849.(3) The newspaper offered only a grudging apology for its reprehensible victimization of Lee and did not discipline any of the reporters involved.(4) Works for Solo Piano explores the relationship between an impossibly eccentric contemporary composer and his grudging biographer, and between perceived genius and genuine mediocrity.(5) He was not even gracious enough to apologise and did not do so until some time later when it became expedient, in terms of his public image, to offer a grudging and less than grovelling apology.(6) Often, only the pressure of the spending timetable in the plan forced grudging assent out of some of the voting members.(7) But I do think there's been a willingness, or even a grudging willingness, to accept this as a good first step.(8) There was a general, reluctant, grudging assent to do this, but they were all complying when suddenly a voice broke in.(9) After months of trying to undo the harm caused by our deception, we finally managed to promote a grudging parental acceptance of the strange new children of humankind.(10) It is, in essence, a buddy piece: a fugitive, arrested 30 years before for protesting his government's eugenics program, forms a grudging friendship with an alien.(11) While there was a grudging acceptance that amalgamation would proceed, there were two troubling outcomes.(12) But it is surprising, how grudging people have been about him.(13) I think after the anger comes some sort of grudging acceptance, but it's not going to be a very calming acceptance.(14) ‘All the financial investment would have been for nought if our staff were working with sour faces and a grudging attitude,’ he said.(15) This acknowledgement is almost grudging and apologetic.(16) First you get a period of moral panic, then a grudging , dismissive acceptance, and then, eventually, a recognition of cultural worth.
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