Sentences with word «irascibility»

Since the apostle allows that proper anger in small quantities can be good, perhaps he is speaking here not of all instances of anger but rather of the vice of irascibility — of being an angry sort of person.

Wells may have inherited a stubborn irascibility from his mother.

Molly's anger at Mort is just an episode of anger and does not by itself indicate a general irascibility.

I mean what in its lower form is mere irascibility, susceptibility to wrath, the fighting temper; and what in subtler ways manifests itself as impatience, grimness, earnestness, severity of character.

Pernicious anemia is known to cause irascibility and hallucination, as well as a litany of physical symptoms that Lincoln reported suffering, according to an article published last year in the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.

Both characters are as exciting as oatmeal, and though Ben Affleck isn't terrible as the Caped Crusader, he just feels miscast, his usual irascibility tamped down.

The character is much in line with GTS» look that borrows its visual irascibility from the Cayenne Turbo.

As his paintings were being rediscovered in the Eighties and Nineties, Wheeler's irascibility rendered him, as one dealer had it, «impossible to deal with.»

Irascibility Pays Off as Clyfford Still Leads Sotheby's to a White - Hot $ 316 Million Postwar Art Sale (Artinfo)

What rescues even Judd's most sweeping pronouncements from crackpot irascibility is the easy, pungent power of his prose.

The irrepressible irascibility of Judge Richard Posner is legendary.

Moreover, the ministers had to avoid arbitrary exegesis of Scripture; presumptuousness; preoccupation with speculative problems (curiosités à chercher questions vaines); indolence in the study of Scripture; tardiness in the denunciation of vice; avarice; irascibility; cantankerousness; unseemly dress.

He's quotable, accessible and has an irascibility that would appeal to upstaters.

Curmudgeons usually have some sort of charm which mitigates their irascibility (think Andy Rooney).

Wilkinson's irascibility might have been the film's high note, but Alfie, like the other characters, is so predictable that he's essentially defanged.

He gives us Churchill's irascibility, but he doesn't convey Churchill's twinkle, his charm or his wit.

An irascibility that's hard to burn off, stuck as he is in a wheelchair.

A strange combination of humor, irascibility, and gravitas sets McNeil apart from his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries and, for that matter, from everyone else.

And if I have a bad night, as all of us are wont to do, I — and everyone around me — pay for it with an extra dose of irascibility.