Sentences with phrase «high dudgeon»

Lady Bird will quit the club in high dudgeon when she's overlooked for all the main parts in a production of Shakespeare's Tempest, but meanwhile has found a boyfriend in Danny (Lucas Hedges), a sweet young man who tells her he respects her too much to touch her breasts.

But Republican Rob Astorino's campaign has been strangely ineffective, because it takes the same tone of high dudgeon on Moreland that it took on fake scandals (remember the attacks on Cuomo's tax assessment?).

To bail out in high dudgeon on an issue too obscure for most voters to empathise with or understand would mean the Lib Dems reaping a bitter electoral harvest.

Before you burst into high dudgeon and say, -LSB-...]

Critics exploded in high dudgeon because he wrote to one priest who was apparently guilty of serial abuses that his ministry had been a blessing to «many people.»

Thanks to Real Clear Religion, I was alerted to someone named Sarah Moon at Patheos, blogging in high dudgeon about the «bigotry» of N.T. Wright, the renowned Anglican theologian.

His chief nemesis: Sergeant Major Bradley, a by - the - book martinet played with snarly high dudgeon by David Thewlis.

Ford, however, keeps himself in a constant state of humorless high dudgeon, and his Scrooge routine gets very old very fast.

Veep redirects the crackling verbal fireworks of The West Wing from Aaron Sorkin's liberal high dudgeon to the pure cynicism of likability indices, brand images, news cycles, and gaffes, and the comedy comes off because it's The West Wing, not Veep, that now seems like the Hollywood fantasy.

The editorial board for The Architect's Newspaper, writing in high dudgeon, posted a response condemning the AIA's «conciliatory note» and the «tone, character, and appropriateness of Ivy's memorandum.»

One of the things I enjoy about reading the Language Log, a cooperative blog by academic linguists, is the ease with which some of the authors slip into high dudgeon.

Although most readers — especially in my own Boomer demographic — were grateful for the post, a furious minority exploded in fits of high dudgeon.

When InBev asked candidate firms how much extra work they'd be willing to do without compensation and how much longer than the company's already astonishing 120 - day payment terms agencies would be willing to wait for their money, the ad biz was in high dudgeon.

It is the sort of story one would expect to have cable news shouters in high dudgeon and headlines in all caps.

Asking people to join is great, but if you have a full - scale legislative action module, it's even better to have an action alert posted — people are on a page because they're interested in the subject, so a standing alert (i.e., a link that impells them to «Tell Congress to Stamp Out Blue Fizzies») lets you catch them when they're in high dudgeon.

«It seemed to me very likely that a dictatorial regime would then, in high dudgeon, want to storm out.

These days, we get Henry Porter writing about how he refused to eat in a curry house that happened to be within the same postcode as a CCTV camera, and stormed out in high dudgeon, scattering onion bhajis and asking outraged rhetorical questions about whether Magna Carta had died in vain in his wake.

In high dudgeon, the GMB have cut the affiliation fee paid to Labour from # 1.2 m to # 150,000.

When we last left Bilbo, Thorin and the company of dwarves at the end of Hobbit 2, they had succeeded in severely hacking off Smaug the Dragon, who set off in high dudgeon to torch the nearest human settlement.

High Dudgeon is not only a reward.

But those in high dudgeon have to come to grips with reality — this is what happens when scientists and institutions debase the coin of the realm.

Never letting a good weather story go to waste, our nation's scribes are in high dudgeon that global warming is causing the serial burial of Boston.