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Example sentences for: wincing

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The assistant shoemaker is another of Malamud's weirdly insistent, lonely souls--impelled, who knows why, to devote himself to a hopeless love; still wincing from the horrors of Europe, which he has not entirely escaped; inarticulate, yet bursting with passion, if only his boss, the master shoemaker, will deign to listen.
His wisecracks sound as if he's nervously thinking them up on the spot, and he's better than anyone at saying something he doesn't mean and then wincing in horror, as if longing to hit the "Delete" key.
He relishes a few absurdities as they glide past--the accidental meeting of Nancy Reagan and Heidi Fleiss in a hotel lobby, or the sight of African-American servants wincing in the background as beautiful white people call O.J. the scum of the earth.
Are you gloating over the papers today or wincing?