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After which you see the browbeaten old-timer eating cereal recommended by the kid.

By his behavior in her presence, it was likely he was her browbeaten husband.

Her impassioned, kinetic despair seemed out of character for a browbeaten young nun.

And Lily, Jake's browbeaten wife, persists in struggling to be a good mother.

He beckoned to a timid, browbeaten secretary who had accompanied: "Come, Parkinson.

He had me browbeaten."

Her pride injured, Maggie bullies the browbeaten, unambitious Willie into an engagement.

Crucial to the commercial was the casting of a middle-aged actor named Patrick Husted, a browbeaten Everyman.

"I told you this would happen, but you didn't want to listen to me," an irate woman told her spouse, who looked browbeaten but unbowed.

The dragon took up residence in Bamiyan in pagan times, and fed daily on a diet of virgins and camels provided by the browbeaten population.

The two top cops, meanwhile, are tied in knots when an overbearing woman was strangled and her browbeaten employee and the employee's boyfriend both claim guilt.

Her predecessor had months to develop the part, that of a browbeaten Queens housewife who magically metamorphoses into a Makarova in "Did You Move?

Only Rosie's browbeaten mother and the old woman's gentlemanly boyfriend (nicely played by Marlene Chavis and Arthur French) show any understanding.

Mornings and late afternoons one meets the men singly and afoot on unguessable errands, or riding shaggy, browbeaten ponies, with game slung across the saddle-bows.

And the browbeaten Ellard, who decides to teach Charlie English, acquires an intellectual confidence that leads him to read Shakespeare and wear a smoking jacket.

"He's done for plays what Perdue did for chickens," a browbeaten underling observes about Arthur, who is played here to smarmy, hubristic perfection by Allan Corduner.

He briefly enjoyed the thought of Aranimas replacing his browbeaten crew with an array of obedient robots, only to discover that, at a word from Derec, he couldn?

To us, in today's consumer society, the idea doesn't appear particularly remarkable, but to the browbeaten British diner of 1950, wasting away under the mean exigencies of rationing, it was a revelation.

I figured that had he come into the FAITH 239 West and browbeaten Tante Lisl I'd probably have treated him worse than he was treating me.

There Erzia, a representative of a minor and browbeaten nation, developed a project of transforming entire mountains in the Andes into monuments to the heroes of the war for independence.

When he stood up from behind the bar, he glanced at my poor, beleaguered, browbeaten father, my mother's haranguing echoing across the hall, and my father winked at him and smiled.

When her browbeaten husband grimly suggests that the Elvis on the turntable is hampering the discourse, Beverly brays, "Laurence, we're not here to hold conversations, we are here to enjoy ourselves."

It is a $1,200-a-month three-bedroom apartment in a building on a browbeaten stretch of Newark's South Ward, where boarded-up homes outnumber inhabited ones and crack dealers hawk their product outside an elementary school.

In 2005, Wopat appeared in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross as the browbeaten customer, James Lingk.

The diminutive, hunch-shouldered actress played her most tormented and tormenting role in the movie, in which Mr. DeVito, as her browbeaten son, Owen Lift, tries to arrange a swap of murder victims.