Sentences with word «orneriness»

Most writers I know have a kind of orneriness at their core that makes it easier to deal with the risk factor.

Students drink more than average folk, do jobs that require greater concentration, and — let's be honest — many have research advisors whose orneriness drives them to drink.

What makes them seem transhuman to us now is their sheer orneriness.

Perhaps the mystery of Socha's soul, the reason he risked everything, resided to a large part in simple orneriness, an unwillingness to be told what to do.

But her acting here is inseparable from Jones's, and his bullying orneriness counterbalances her civility.

He could have sailed through this film but he gives his role an ingrained orneriness and melancholy that lifts the entire enterprise.

Elly is generally quiet, but sometimes surprises us with periods of orneriness.

There was some orneriness, cantankerousness and sometimes willful self - blinding in Morrison, whom a few of those who contribute to the magazine, I among them, remember at least dimly.

I tell my mother it's the orneriness in me coming out, but in a different way.

His valiant wife Cleo (Diane Lane) and three school - age kids must deal with an existence built on a complex set of deceptions, and on the orneriness of a writer who does much of his work in the bathtub swilling booze and smoking.

«He could convey both orneriness and sweetness, as well as a certain childlike quality that could come with old age.»

In racy little sports cars, we expect to feel some orneriness at low speeds, with temperamental gas pedals that make first and second gear shifts difficult when you need to drive at 5 or 10 mph.