Grudging

In the original, Rolf Lassgård richly inhabited the role of Ove, a curmudgeonly widower — a Forrest Grump —whose suicide attempts are foiled by needy neighbors and, ultimately, his grudging, sincere devotion to them.

On Wednesday there were signs of grudging acceptance from the Ukrainians that the deal was as good as they could have expected.

Rolling Stone, in a review of Buffett’s 2020 album “Life on the Flip Side,” gave grudging props.

The interactions between Marianne and Christèle are the most naturalistic, the two bonding over the grudging labor they must perform.

The relationship between Woody and Nell evolves from animosity to grudging acceptance to friendship to love.

I have to say I feel some grudging sympathy for Gavin Williamson.

Such bans gain a day or two, that morrison just threw away – observe his grudging action six weeks later, exponentially increase the ultimate death toll here, of us.

Despite the Met's grudging apology, Lord Bramall warned, 'mud sticks'.

Even rivals offered grudging praise at his ability to go from macroeconomics to the minutiae of local politics, on everything from “bears in the Pyrenees to toxins in Tampax”, to quote one observer cited by Le Figaro.

I give the club grudging credit for taking a baby step, but I do not think this is anything they want to do.

In response, he launched into a story intended as a metaphor for his grudging acceptance of the Vatican’s legendary aversion to change.

As written by Peter J. Tomasi, every issue contains at least one laugh-out-loud moment centering on the grudging friendship between the relentlessly upbeat Superboy and the comically dour Robin.

But your Wikipedia link makes it clear that such help was limited and grudging at best.

Here, there is grudging acknowledgement of the challenge Choudhary has presented, but conviction that Umesh Patel, a youth leader and president of the Youth Congress, will pull through.

I must give grudging credit here: as hate crime hoaxes go, this woman did not half-ass her effort.

It’s part of Montanans’ sometimes grudging progression beyond questioning whether grizzly bears belong in their midst.

There has already been some grudging talk of a tinpot trophy, of undue euphoria at crumbs from a competition Jürgen Klopp has called “the most senseless in the world”.

They were the masters, and they had taught him that power itself was a value, worthy of respect, even if it was grudging.

Under fire on all fronts back home, British Prime Minister Theresa May has nevertheless earned grudging respect in Europe for what many see as her resilience in the Brexit negotiations.

When CBS requests them for a “History of Comedy” retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries, and laughs.