Sentences with phrase «of ill tempered»

Looking at the list of critics (Michael Mann, John Abraham, Scott Mandia, Peter Gleick and Richard Somerville, Stephen Lewandowski, DeSmog Blog, Greg Laden and even the Union of Concerned Scientists — who have managed to disprove the theory of a broken clock telling the correct time twice a day) one gets the image of ill tempered chihuahua's yipping at your ankles.

Not only that, but it encourages thugs (I would use a more descriptive term but for the sake of youngsters on here I will refrain) like Costa to continue this type of ill tempered behaviour on the pitch.

But I was usually able to shrug off these fits of ill temper if the rest of an album was passably good.

What followed, however, was a display of ill temper inside the independent group that may be damaging to what appears to be Howey's exploration of possibly organizing the writers.

Not exact matches

A rude awakening was followed by an ill temper on the part of the American people.

It is a kind of ill - temper.

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.

Along with the Internet's favorite ill - tempered feline, Interian said that the film will feature a variety of other online meme stars.

I must admit that I went partly because I had read some rather ill - tempered criticisms of the...

I must admit that I went partly because I had read some rather ill - tempered criticisms of the event, so I decided I'd find out about it for myself.

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»

The absolute pinnacle of on - pitch clashes, Arsenal players ganged up on Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy after an ill - tempered 0 - 0 draw at Old Trafford at the start of the 2003/04 season.

After an ill - tempered contest, nothing could separate the Liga BBVA champions and the Europa League winners at the end of 90 minutes, with both sides down to ten men following red cards for Javier Mascherano and Ever Banega.

Last year, for example, we were treated to a contest of supreme moodiness, snark and ill - temper between Chelsea and Liverpool.

In a hippo pool a family of the rotund, ill - tempered river horses blew and yawned, then watched us with their rotary ears twitching before sinking silently back into the slimy green depths.

In other news, Sanchez featured in a ill - tempered Chile — Uruguay game which ended with a home victory of 1:0 against 9 men.

Two fights erupt in an ill - tempered third period, fistic footnotes that enchant the crowd of 4,612 even more than right wing Simon Lambert's three goals.

United were there, winning 2 - 1 on aggregate in an ill - tempered affair at the Theatre of Dreams.

The last European finals saw him perform, indifferently, in just the last couple of England games, emerging from suspension inflicted for an ill - tempered foul in Montenegro.

Who hasn't heard the story about the ill - tempered coach, or the foul - mouthed parent who loses it in front of everybody?

But what a turnaround on 12 months ago when Labour's ill - tempered gathering started with the announcement of Corbyn's re-election followed by days of recriminations before an adulatory Tory faithful lay prostrate before a revered Theresa May who could do no wrong... until she gambled on that General Election and lost their majority and her authority.

Cunningham had been upstaged by the OMRLP on the night of her victory at the ill - tempered Perth & Kinross by - election due to the death of Sir Nicholas Fairbairn.

Labour heavyweight Alan Johnson lashed out at one of Jeremy Corbyn's supporters during an ill - tempered TV exchange today.

The discourse to which these rival factions are increasingly resorting — abusive, ill - tempered and acrimonious — is beginning to lend intra-party debate a similar tone and temper to that of the earlier period.

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.

When New Horizons roared into a blue Florida sky on 18 January 2006, it was met with excitement and frustration in equal measure: excitement because, after so many fruitless attempts to send a spacecraft to Pluto — ranging from the ill - fated Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF) to the Pluto Kuiper Express (PKE), which breathed their last in ferocious NASA budget cuts in the 1990s and at the turn of the millennium — a mission to explore the last of the nine «traditional» planets in the Solar System was underway, tempered with frustration that it would require such a long period of time in order to reach its quarry.

In the novel, the protagonist, much like Espen himself, runs away from the Danish factory town of his birth and finds work on board a British ship, where he meets Wakefield (Stuart Graham), an ill - tempered ne'er - do - well.

One of his best - known screen roles was the ill - tempered Subway Ghost, who teaches newly dead Patrick Swayze how to move solid objects with sheer «hate power» in the 1990 blockbuster Ghost.

Blanchett clearly relishes the role of this impatient, ill - tempered goddess of death, who seems more irritated — by how she has been forgotten and the stubbornness of Asgardians to refuse submission to her rule — than evil.

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.

He's Bill Mitchell, cynical, ill - tempered President of the United States, and Dave Kovic, a nice, gawky, unassuming chap who runs a temp agency in Baltimore, and happens to be a dead ringer for the President.

Short - sighted and ill - tempered, Scott finds his once safe and comfortable life spinning wildly out of control.

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.

Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working - class family in a suburb just north of London — an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night - and - day twins, a bookish good girl and a troubled, ill - tempered layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks).

An international breakthrough for Leigh, Life Is Sweet is an intimate portrait of a working - class family with twin daughters who couldn't be more different: the bookish plumber Natalie (Claire Skinner) and the bulimic, ill - tempered Nicola (Jane Horrocks).

Hugh Jackman's portrayal of the ill - tempered Wolverine is dead - on, while Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are ideally matched in their Martin Luther King, Jr. - and Malcolm X-like roles.

All three Tenenbaum children are prodigies of some field in which they've made an esteemed name for themselves, and the father, the Mr. Royal Tenenbaum (a flawless Gene Hackman), is an ill - tempered ex-lawyer and overall downtrodden dad who has less - than - great news to deliver: he has been forcibly evicted from his hotel - home and claims he has been diagnosed with stomach cancer.

It also shows just how little the industry seems to care about the critical sentiment that has built up against Martin McDonagh's film in recent months, much of it directed specifically at Rockwell's Dixon, an ill - tempered white police officer with a fondness for beating up black suspects.

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.

Once she learns of her dad's passing, she immediately returns home to claim tenancy of her family's small farm, to which she believes she is entitled, although her rough, ill - tempered brother, Joe (Mark Stanley), obviously has different ideas in mind.

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.

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!

What he doesn't know is that Fletcher is the most rigid, vitriolic, and ill - tempered perfectionist who believes in pushing his students beyond the point of sanity if necessary to become the best they can be.

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.