A simple display of name-calling tetchiness is one thing, but your fear she will not return your DVD suggests you may have gone a tad further than that. From Wordnik.com. [HomePage - The Sun] Reference
"I've not been idle, my Lord, " he said with a touch of tetchiness. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
Excellent analysis, displaying your usual tetchiness and unsparing scrutiny…. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Challenge #11 – To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference
Among those involved with the film, all this has led to an evident tetchiness. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony."] Reference
The tetchiness is only going to get worse the nearer nulabour's conference gets!. From Wordnik.com. [Rattled] Reference
Afterwards you remembered their tetchiness - their fallibility - their kindness - their humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Rapunzel]
Mervyn was not about to ruin his own reputation as agent out of tetchiness with Juliards, father or son. From Wordnik.com. [Penalty]
Once or twice, Mark had asked him if he was depressed, but each time the question was greeted with tetchiness. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
With the tetchiness of a patriarch whom no one heeds but whose nagging voice won't get off the intercom, Norman Podhoretz asks the vexing question: "Why Are Jews Liberals?". From Wordnik.com. [James Wolcott's Blog] Reference
His tetchiness, fear, and the stammering are only likely to increase, particularly if he learns that he has been nicknamed “Arkwright” after the stuttering Barker character. From Wordnik.com. [Brown Trounces Ming at PMQs] Reference
Eric, on the other hand, was a Gunnery Major who talked fitfully of trajectories and ballistics as though he were the young Napoleon, giving an impression of tetchiness and vanity that was quite illusory, for once circumstances divorced him from his play. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
Sarah Quintrell is a model of crisp common sense as Roberta; Caroline Harker as the mother reveals occasional tetchiness beneath the good samaritan; and Marshall Lancaster as the porter blends kindliness with the prickliness of someone who won't be patronised. From Wordnik.com. [The Railway Children] Reference
Chernow, who won the National Book Award for "The House of Morgan," shows all Hamilton's complexity and inconsistency: his flirtatiousness, religiosity, manic productivity (his collected writings run to 22,000 pages), tetchiness, well-hidden insecurity and his tendency to self-destruct. From Wordnik.com. [ALEXANDER THE GREAT] Reference
If the speech in Nashville is any indication, this tetchiness now threatens to engulf the more appealing aspects of her persona. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
All we have in a few sentences of typical boilerplate is more Brown confusion and tetchiness from the near-rebellious chiefs of staff. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
His worst faults are an occasional tetchiness about his goldfish-bowl existence and a solitary manly glance at a passing woman's bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
You could sense the change in the tetchiness of Rafael Benítez when brooding on the hamstring problem that will keep Fernando Torres out for a fortnight. From Wordnik.com. [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The game descended into tetchiness in the final stages, with both sides betraying a lack of discipline and there was a lengthy stoppage after Ryan Shawcross went down injured. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie] Reference
His tetchiness was in stark contrast to that of his counterpart Paul Azinger, who claimed to be stress-free and who has already pencilled in his pairings for the first morning. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
There was far less of the tetchiness that we usually see from Brown in interviews and by being invited to talk about the ash cloud and the government's response to it at the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum] Reference
Let not anger or grief for the absence of thy lover make thee unjust to thy kinsman, who, notwithstanding all thy tetchiness, values thy good report as high as that of any one living. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
There were suggestions Prior may have said the phrase "see you outside" to Siddle as the tetchiness between the teams, which has been a hidden under-current to the series, burst to the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
For what I think is the first time in either series, we saw a genuine tetchiness - anger even - from Pete, as he shouted at the kids to shut up, and that was indicative of an episode that had an odd tone overall. From Wordnik.com. [TV Scoop] Reference
This supposedly reflected President Obama's tetchiness over continued Israeli settlement activity in the occupied territories, which he sees, correctly, as a major roadblock to the erection of a Palestinian state. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
MONZA (Italy): World championship leading Briton Lewis Hamilton should be excused this weekend if his patience is a bit frayed and he shows an out-of-character tetchiness towards officialdom at the Italian Grand Prix. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He is noted for "his unmeaning frown, his shuffling gait, his burst of voice, his bustling insignificance, his fever-and-ague fits of valor, his froward tetchiness, his unprincipled malice, and occasional gleams of good sense.". From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
Which you might not have thought was suitable for a song as directly emotional as "Don't You Want Me", but no - its limited range and perpetual tetchiness are ideal for a record about a man who simply won't or can't acknowledge the reality of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [FreakyTrigger] Reference
Even near the end, with little left to live for beyond a misplaced prospect that Cordelia may still survive, the actor communicates a tetchiness to this "foolish, fond old man" that is routed far less easily than Lear banishes those who speak most bravely by choosing silence. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
I’m sorry, but my tetchiness varies monotonically, and in the same sense, as the degree of idiocy and/or deceit take your pick of these postings. From Wordnik.com. [A few inconvenient truths « Climate Audit] Reference
Hence the tetchiness of my hosts. From Wordnik.com. [Russia's Holy Warriors] Reference
Setter will shortly moderate tetchiness 3,6. From Wordnik.com. [Cryptic crossword No 25,204] Reference
35 min: Although this has 0-0 written all over it, the levels of tetchiness are considerable. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Why can't we debate people like that? surely we can! and their allergenic tetchiness over this tells us reams about how cultic they are already. http://www. typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451cfe069e2011571b4eecf970b Your comment could not be posted. From Wordnik.com. [World of SL] Reference
The unmeaning frown of countenance, the shuffling gait, the burst of voice, the bustling insignificance, the fever and ague fits of valor, the froward tetchiness, the unprincipled malice, and, what is more curious, those occasional gleams of good sense amidst the floating clouds of folly which generally darkened and confused the man's brain, and which, in the character of Cloten, we are apt to impute to a violation of unity in character; but in the some-time Captain C----, I saw that the portrait of Cloten was not out of nature. ". From Wordnik.com. [Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical] Reference
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