Sentences with phrase «fit of pique»

The NHL's five best teams glided into the season — and fell flat on their rinks, with even Bobby Orr indulging in a rare fit of pique

The unsuccessful coup attempt that preceded the leadership challenge was an inexcusable fit of pique that has baffled, angered and alienated hundreds of thousands of members and millions of supporters.

DreamWorks Animation's comedy «Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie» brings the anarchic adventure and unbridled potty humor of author Dav Pilkey's beloved children's book series — which for 20 years has sent countless elementary - school - age kids into fits of giggles and a few easily offended adults into fits of pique — to movie screens for the first time.

The power of the review aggregator has infuriated heavy hitters like Brett Ratner, who — in an apparent fit of pique after his recent producing effort Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice earned an eye - watering 27 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes — called it «the worst thing that we have in today's movie culture.»

Five of the most recalcitrant trustees resigned (in an extraordinary fit of pique) in June, and widely - despised president Jamshed Bharucha quit the following day.

But now, in a truly bizarre fit of pique, the Cooper Union trustees have chosen to toss aside all the work and effort and good faith the students of the college have expended on the process for reasons that — well, you've heard the adjectives already.

But in a fit of pique, Jobs sold most of his Apple shares when he was ousted from the company in 1985, for roughly $ 130 million.

I'm still p ssed I missed out on being the first one to point to the irony of CNN asking about the «Profit» being illiterate, so I'm not going to participate in this thread in a fit of pique!

The problem for the reigning Masters champion was that after he smacked the putter into the ground and broke it, he had to take it out of play and get creative with a club not yet disfigured in a fit of pique.

Indeed, Sunday's scripted reunion between Rory McIlroy and his recalcitrant 3 - iron — thanks to the beneficence of Donald Trump — capped a weekend of chuckling, attaboys, and figurative high - fives celebrating the fit of pique that landed the world No. 1's Nike stick at the bottom of a lake on Trump's Doral Blue Monster course.

In a fit of pique the other night, Leavitt went through a list of the members of the society, noting those with few or no horses, those with favored family connections, those with no visible qualifications and one who is «a dedicated drunk.»

In no particular order I give you: the Bond scheme, Mannygate, Tevezgate, the treatment of Bobby Moore and Billy Bonds, the Icelandics, Brown sacking Redknapp in a fit of pique, Pardew's philandering, Curbishley's constructive dismissal, transfer business conducted by twitter culminating in the unseemly spat with Sporting Lisbon regarding William Carvalho.

That decision led to Morata kicking a bottle near the dugout, reacting angrily to Burnley supporters in the Main Stand and then continuing his fit of pique on the bench before being consoled by substitute Cesc Fabregas.

Once a team can not achieve a play - off place, they often tumble down the table in a fit of pique.

Firing someone who would be resigning in two and a half months anyway is nothing more than a fit of pique by an incompetent and impotent governor — who is HIMSELF being fired by the people of NYS.

If he wants to shut down the government in a fit of pique come April 1, so be it.

Withdrawal from the desertification convention suggests that Harper is still in a fit of pique.

Eleanor's already fragile psyche takes a bit of a bruising when she first realises why Theo is taking such an interest (calling her one of «nature's mistakes») and she's then introduced to Markway's wife, Grace (who, in a fit of pique, Eleanor puts in mortal danger - something she immediately regrets but can't undo).

But the highlight of the piece finds Harry, in a fit of pique, turning the tables on an inquisitive Snape (Alan Rickman) and discovering that his father as a young man (Robbie Jarvis) was Snape's bully.

With silence filling the car the two begin to bicker, only to have Lady Bird in a fit of pique throw herself from a moving car.

King John (Oscar Isaac) throwing petulant fits and lusting for the wrong woman, King John's mother smacking the monarch and the latter dismissing his trusted Chancellor (William Hurt) in a fit of pique, Marion refusing the advances of the Sherriff of Nottingham and later being starchy with Robin when forced to pretend he's her dead husband in order to keep the property going, Friar Tuck (Mark Addy) and his obsession with bees.

The latest Quentin Tarantino effort, The Hateful Eight (released January 8), went through various pre-release and even pre-production hurdles before making it on - screen - most notably when an early draft of the script was leaked online, reportedly by an actor, leading Tarantino to call off the whole thing in a fit of pique at the betrayal.

In its third installment, X-Men: Apocalypse, the conflicted sometime - hero, sometime - villain Magneto, in a fit of pique, collaborates in a plan to destroy all of humankind.

When that doesn't work, Iosef and his crew break into Wick's New Jersey home to steal the car, leaving him battered and bloodied before Iosef kills Daisy in a fit of pique.

Girl's father decides that boy is not quite the dashing young opportunity he thought, and casts the relationship aside in a fit of pique.

In a fit of pique by a fountain in San Gimignano, she tore off her sex - windbreaker — at last, a day it was clement enough to do so!

It was that strength of emotion that allowed him to plow ahead, in a fit of pique, with his irrational, ultimately self - injuring plan before better sense could prevail.

I outed myself in a fit of pique several months ago.

By placing those thoughts into an email, though, you've transformed them from a transient moment of unhappiness to a permanent record of your fit of pique.

In a fit of pique she used her Facebook page to post a photo of a nude and very well known football (known as «footie» down under) star.

If angry tweets typed and sent in a fit of pique can be judged «defamatory,» it means two things: the next million dollar app will be one that automatically scans drafted messages for possible libelous content and warns the impulsive author before sending it; and that Alec Baldwin can look forward to spending countless hours fighting libel charges in court from here on out.

That I'm the author of the only comprehensive set of guidelines out there — A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting — doesn't mean I'm writing this in a fit of pique.