Sentences with phrase «ill tempered as»

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I had hoped that we would see a «new» Donald Trump as a general - election candidate — one who would focus on jobs and the economy, tone down his rhetoric, develop more thoughtful policies and, yes, apologize for ill - tempered rants.

For so far as the child is concerned, one does not talk about despair but only about ill - temper, because one has only a right to assume that the eternal is present in the child, and has never a right to demand it of the child, as one has a right to demand it of the grown man, to whom it applies that he shall have it.

The ill - tempered prophet wanted the great city destroyed just to «save his face» as a predictor; but the Lord rebuked him.

My dictionary defines a crank as an «ill - tempered, grouchy person,» as an «eccentric person who is overzealous in his advocacy of a private cause.»

Is there a reader even slightly familiar with the writings of Kurzweil and Leibowitz who would not recognize «ill - tempered,» «eccentric,» and «overzealous» as suitable descriptive terms for these men?

Is human compassion alone ever sufficient to produce the initiative to cut off such an existence as this, relatively protected from coercion, from the ills of human temper, from arbitrary authority, from far - reaching and unremitting responsibility» Will human compassion alone serve to terminate such an existence in favor of the fearfully vexed, dangerous, and apparently hopeless role which Moses is soon to assume»

It took five years — until 1952 — to replace the «ill - tempered cocker spaniel» as No. 1 dog in AKC registrations.

Yes, she's going to be stubborn and ill - tempered sometimes, but she will gradually improve as time goes by.

As the Press Association reports, in a heated and occasionally ill - tempered debate at the gathering in Birmingham, party members passed a motion condemning the system of police accreditation, arguing it infringed upon their human rights.

For four years, he and Cosby in their scenes together comprised one of the funniest comedy double acts seen on television, his innocent yet conniving Griffin Vesey making the perfect foil to Cosby's ill - tempered curmudgeon Hilton Lucas; another highlight of his portrayal (and a clever «in» joke referring back to his work in Cool Runnings) were Griffin's occasional attempts to impress women by passing himself off as a West Indian, affecting a Jamaican accent.

Inexperienced and unsure of how (and whether) to harness her evident ambition, she's a purely aspirational creation, and her hometown of Sacramento comes off as ill - tempered toward irony or audacity.

Up until its fulsome conclusion — which is punctuated, of course, with an anatomical joke — The D Train is as morose and ill - tempered as its protagonist.

In Saturday Night Live sketches and early movies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, Sandler certainly has something, but part of what's compelling about him as a comic presence is a kind of goofy, vamping sheepishness about being the center of attention — coupled with a secret desire to hold that attention, hence the stammer - to - roar dynamic of the old «Denise Show» bit on SNL or the righteously ill temper of Happy Gilmore.

Squibb as Woody's nagging wife, Kate, gets her share of laughs now and then, but her character feels manufactured for easy gags — another example of the foul - mouthed granny, whose only humorous facet comes through the fact that her sometimes ill - tempered demeanor is emanating from a sweet, diminutive, elderly woman.

But had he done so, it might well have featured a prison chef every bit as fearsome as Brendan Gleeson's Knuckles McGinty, a character so ill - tempered only the taste of freshly - made marmalade can calm him.

The accomplished cast, including Jared Abrahamson (as ill - tempered jock boyfriend Roy) and John Savage (as Alison's damaged, drunken father Carl) are given enough quality dialogue and conflict to spark the narrative at opportune moments.

But that doesn't take away the fun of the way Waititi and his team of veteran comic - book - adaptation writers expand Hulk's vocabulary and personality, reinventing him as a petulant, ill - tempered teenager.

Tommy Wiseau may be a terrible filmmaker (and judging from his terrible movie, some kind of misogynist), he may be ill - tempered and unprofessional, he may be a genuinely troubled or tortured individual, and he may be too shady to offer up details about himself as basic as his age... but, the filmmakers counter, we really like the bad movie he made!

The major new characters, most of whom are seen at least briefly in the new trailer, include Dory's parents Jenny (Diane Keaton) and Charlie (Eugene Levy); Ty Burrell as Bailey, a beluga whale; Kaitlin Olson as Destiny, a whale shark who is Dory's adopted sister; and Ed O'Neill as Hank, «an ill - tempered octopus.»

Perhaps the casting is part of the problem: Dillon can do funny, as he showed in «There's Something about Mary,» but he's also a little too good at playing an ill - tempered hothead (see «Crash,» if you must), and before you know it, Carl has gone from suffering friend to insufferable prick in seconds flat.

Currently, NAIA also gets calls for help from people who have adopted bad tempered or chronically ill shelter dogs, a phenomenon that almost never occurred as recently as four years ago.

Unfortunately Josh is only interested in philosophical debates about tribes, BBD in trying to supplant WEB as the leading ill tempered curmudgeon and Michael — well, if anyone can enlighten us as to what Michael is looking for here, other than perfecting the role of the braying jackass, I'd be interesting in knowing.