Sentences with word «fussbudget»

They're also wonderfully, creakingly, hilariously British — him dry as a bone but clearly enamored of his students, her a loving fussbudget that would surely be played by Judi Dench in a movie with more story to tell.

In other words, he's tough, confident, not especially interested in «human / cyborg relations,» and the complete opposite of a neurotic fussbudget.

Insisting to the angel (Edward Everett Horton, Hollywood's favorite fussbudget) who nabbed him that there's been some mistake, Joe learns from the angel's superior, Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), that an error has indeed been made and that he's not set to die for another 50 years.

You may have read in the American - Statesman that some underutilized fussbudgets on the Charter Review Commission are contemplating having a yet - to - be-named agency sending $ 100 vouchers to all registered voters to distribute in $ 50 increments to...

Fast, efficient... not for hockey hipsters and fussbudgets.

Even as a young woman, Ms. Byington specialized in portraying middle - aged dowagers, fussbudgets, flibbertigibbets and small - town gossips.

In his enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village.