Sentences with phrase «of a curmudgeon»

I guess I'm just a bit of a curmudgeon of the screw»em if they can't take a joke kind.
Congregations too are the spiritual grandchildren of wonderful stewards who gave their all, and of generations of curmudgeons who threw water on the Spirit's fire every chance they got.
It's hard to be too much of a curmudgeon when Tim Raines is finally in, and he's flanked by two very worthy inductees.
Philip, you see, is something of a curmudgeon, burying himself in his work, determined that his heart will never be broken again.
The equal - opportunity, granddaddy longlegs of all curmudgeons, Myron Lieberman, manages in one volume to savage teachers unions, education schools, the Education Writers Association, the New York Times, the Washington Post, education research, egalitarian school - choice proponents, and conservatives Diane Ravitch, Terry Moe, -LSB-...]
You'd have to be the lousiest kind of curmudgeon to think otherwise, but there's a niggling problem inherent with...
He personally works on perfecting the exterior of a curmudgeon.
While this may seem like a case of a curmudgeon explaining why a universally enjoyed thing is bad, Nichols actually makes some good points.
Sennett's comedies were famed for their orchestrated anarchy but Fields is a force of curmudgeon chaos unique unto himself.
They won't last too long but are executed in a manner inoffensive enough to avoid the scorn of all but the most dedicated of curmudgeons.
Outside of some curmudgeons in commercial mortgage lending departments, few recognized that writing 5 - year mortgages with low principal amortization rates against long - lived commercial properties was a recipe for disaster.
Our dear grumpy Eddie whom I have have had since a puppy is 17 lbs of curmudgeon like «petbull», who is quite sure he is the boss (he really is).
In fact, Crooks says, one of the first questions he's asked by those he is working to place is about whether firm leaders consider the CMO job an important one: «They want to know how much of a curmudgeon factor there is with respect to the leadership's attitudes on business development.»
Those who know better think of a curmudgeon as one who gives it to you straight.
Pym is a bit of curmudgeon and when one of Scott's crew refers to Hope as «Angry Pretty Lady», it's a joke that's also a fairly comprehensive character description.
Though he had plenty of stories about the good ol days, it turned out that Cross wasn't one of those curmudgeons who refuse to acknowledge that anything that went down after they turned 30 could be remotely cool.
The artist retained many of his own works in part because he was something of a curmudgeon and had an often stormy... read more... «Denver hosts first exhibition from the Clyfford Still estate»
The equal - opportunity, granddaddy longlegs of all curmudgeons, Myron Lieberman, manages in one volume to savage teachers unions, education schools, the Education Writers Association, the New York Times, the Washington Post, education research, egalitarian school - choice proponents, and conservatives Diane Ravitch, Terry Moe, Frederick Hess, and Chester E. Finn Jr..
You'd have to be the lousiest kind of curmudgeon to think otherwise, but there's a niggling problem inherent with taping a cluster of discounted games together, one that's been scratching around the backs of our skulls since they exploded into fashion: they nearly always contain a game you already own.
The Wacom Graphire Wireless graphics tablet is so easy to like that criticizing it makes me feel like a bit of a curmudgeon.
Toby is a bit of a curmudgeon.
A bit of a curmudgeon, he also rails against such diverse targets as the statutory canons of constructions, misuses and overuses of «as such» and «here,» the poor management of judges» chambers, and what he sees as the fetishization of Bluebooking and of citation format generally.
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