Sentences with phrase «of peevishness»

I think of this as the snuff theory of peevishness: carry your irritants in a pouch with you at all times; administer a dose when tension rises too high; release the stress in a small outburst; and all the while stay oblivious of the real reason for the ritual.

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The mood of a Schopenhauer or a Nietzsche, — and in a less degree one may sometimes say the same of our own sad Carlyle, — though often an ennobling sadness, is almost as often only peevishness running away with the bit between its teeth.

He was a rough teether, though, with almost every symptom possible (drool, drool stool, drool cough, rash around mouth, rash around butt, acidic poop, waking at night, random pains that made him yelp, refusing to nursing, and «general peevishness» as the bottle of Humphrey's # 3 describes).

Bernard Jenkin (Con, Harwich & N Essex), a Eurosceptic, struggled to keep peevishness out of his usually civilised contributions.

But Day - Lewis also lays bare the peevishness behind the smile — the arrogance, the contempt and, most of all, the childlike fragility that both aggravates Alma and keeps her coming back for more.