Sentences with word «peevishness»

As we shrivel, pettiness replaces gratitude, peevishness displaces trust and delight.

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.

They announced — with puerile peevishness - that the President was alive and well!

Yesterday Bercow (a figure that vacillates between smouldering peevishness and gaseous sycophancy in these his troubled days) was back.

Downfall, director Oliver Hirschbiegel's exploration of Adolf Hitler's final days, succeeded by going deep, fully acknowledging its subject's unimaginable monstrousness while also locating an aggrieved peevishness that made him fascinatingly, horribly relatable.

Colin Hanks is an oddly unappealing romantic hero, as he projects a disgruntled peevishness that can suggest malevolence.

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... [more]

Peevishness is not attractive.

«There is an air of quiet death in this house,» he remarks, seemingly unaware that his own fastidiousness and peevishness might be the cause of a slow, steady entombment.

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.

Few can deny that Washington and many a state capital are gridlocked today by political partisanship, posturing, and peevishness.

That said, Ozu's passion for cinema, the love for Flemish still lives, the search for beauty, a peevishness for any form of academic thought, and a love for Russian authors are all my own passions.