Sentences with phrase «of irascibility»

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.

It is in this character of irascibility and of vindictiveness, which not even the prophets can completely transfigure into their ideal of a God of justice, that Yahweh has been compared to the Vedic Varuna.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The irrepressible irascibility of Judge Richard Posner is legendary.