Sentences with phrase «case of a curmudgeon»

While this may seem like a case of a curmudgeon explaining why a universally enjoyed thing is bad, Nichols actually makes some good points.

Not exact matches

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.

There's a disturbing conversation to be had here about why the corrupt judge of the real case is replaced by a justice - loving curmudgeon — and, better, how it is that this film revolving around women's rights in the workplace is fought and won by men acting like boys, swooping in to rescue their damsels in distress and accusing one another of being girls while the actual girls sit around crying.

Upon starting the game, we're introduced to our «protagonist,» Henry B. Knight, a 19th century curmudgeon with a serious case of separation anxiety.

Comprehensive online reporting of cases should by now have made it unnecessary to quote long dead curmudgeons on the subject of the proliferation of case reporting, except possibly from the perspective of comic relief.