Example sentences for: grudgingly

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  • His stated reasons are that the Serb-dominated Yugoslav government, led by President Slobodan Milosevic, is waging war on the ethnic Albanian population of the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, and that Milosevic refuses to sign a peace plan to which Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels have grudgingly agreed.

  • It has stu-freakin'-pendous special effects, hipster sang-froid out the wazoo and a story line that makes only as much sense as it has to" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). A grudgingly appreciative Janet Maslin says that at its best the movie brings "Hong Kong action style home to audiences in a mainstream American adventure with big prospects as a cult classic and with the future very much in mind" (the New York Times ). Others criticize the convoluted story line and call it strictly genre and strictly for "guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script's pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). (To see the trailer and some fine Keanu pics, visit this fan site; check out David Edelstein's in Slate .)

  • [Afterward, he speaks to the nation, admits doing wrong, and apologizes, though grudgingly.

  • The late subway graffitist turned '80s art superstar gets his first major retrospective, to grudgingly admiring reviews.

  • Broadway congratulates itself on its recent success--ticket sales increased 12 percent this year--which critics grudgingly attribute to investments by Disney and Michael Ovitz's company Livent.


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