Sentences with phrase «times curmudgeon»
¬ † Supposedly there is an LA Times curmudgeon who is also known for breaking scandalous stories and keeping moguls nervous — Patrick Goldstein, self - appointed hater of all Oscar bloggers, among other things.
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At the time I was tempted to take this for pessimism or a curmudgeon's spirit.
If there's a sure way to turn someone into a curmudgeon (Does anyone else use that word all the time, or is it just me?)
It's a story we've seen many times before: curmudgeon (of not the lovable variety) succeeds in business while keeping himself in self - exile through a cloak of bitterness until a kid or a woman (sometimes both, as in this case) come into his life, break down his walls and reveal the wonderful person underneath.
The titular guardians of an orphaned baby this time around are a trio of homeless souls: troubled teenage girl Miyuki (Aya Okamoto), transvestite Hana (Yoshiaku Umegaki), and curmudgeon Gin (Toru Emori) find that shepherding the infant across the desert of inner - city Tokyo proves to be a catalyst for reconciliation in their own lives over a magical holiday season.
Brian Cox returns as the curmudgeon police captain who seems to be having a good time once again cutting up with the Broken Lizard gang.
The equal - opportunity, granddaddy longlegs of all curmudgeons, Myron Lieberman, manages in one volume to savage teachers unions, education schools, the Education Writers Association, the New York Times, the Washington Post, education research, egalitarian school - choice proponents, and conservatives Diane Ravitch, Terry Moe, -LSB-...]
The equal - opportunity, granddaddy longlegs of all curmudgeons, Myron Lieberman, manages in one volume to savage teachers unions, education schools, the Education Writers Association, the New York Times, the Washington Post, education research, egalitarian school - choice proponents, and conservatives Diane Ravitch, Terry Moe, Frederick Hess, and Chester E. Finn Jr..
The reading world is in love with curmudgeons — perhaps because we all feel unbearably awkward at times — and Eleanor Oliphant, the lonely heroine of Gail Honeyman's debut novel, is the latest hit.
-- O: The Oprah Magazine «With courting curmudgeons, wayward sons, religion, race, and real estate in a petty and picturesque English village, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand is surprisingly, wonderfully romantic and fresh... the best first novel I've read in a long, long time.»
Long - time reader and valued curmudgeon Ed Teja took a different view.
John and I were long - time cloud curmudgeons.
By the time I made it to college, binders had been replaced with laptops, and professors who banned laptops from their classrooms seemed like curmudgeons who had been paid off by the paper industry.