Sentences with phrase «petulant child in»

This from Manohla Darghis sums it up: «Ms. Bonham Carter makes you hear the petulant child in her barbarism and the wounded woman too.

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We don't have hard numbers on this, but we suspect the grown - men - in - positions - of - power demographic is the most likely to act like petulant children.

The Christian task is to imbue Ordinary Time with the love we saw in the stable, when every «It» — that guy who cut me off, my nagging boss, my petulant child — is a «You.»

They are like petulant children who will not join their playmates in playing either wedding or funeral.

Like a petulant child, I don't like eggs, I don't like cinnamon, and stevia in the tiniest amount is overwhelmingly sweet to me.

Can't you see that it is an apt description for that petulant Portuguese child trapped in a man's body?

This is some pretty petulant stuff for a man in his forties, throwing a hissy fit and leaving your team because you didn't get what you want, that's something children do.

Klein has compared his former Democratic colleagues to a «circular firing squad,» and they have in turn likened him to a petulant child.

Finally, look at Chuka Umunna, who betrayed a contemptuous attitude in his Newsnight interview in which he compared Labour members and supporters to «petulant children».

«We were sent a very strong message by the electorate at this general election, and we are behaving like a petulant child who has been told you can't have the sweeties in the sweetshop, you can't have power.

I was a petulant child about it, quite frankly, mostly in my head (and almost entirely on my couch).

We never get a clue as to what Kick - Ass himself wants to do — he's even less sure of himself than in the first film, and more wantonly rude toward his father — and the former Red Mist pouts and postures like a petulant little child, an impression not countered by Mint - Plasse's flailing about like a man drowning in syrup.

Only hints of the oversized, petulant man - child are evident in Lenny; this is the kind of individual one might imagine Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison becoming in middle age.

He's portrayed as the opposite of Batman in many ways, a dangerous opponent that seems to know exactly how the Dark Knight thinks and acts, and yet in reality he often comes across as a petulant child unhappy with the mean old Batman blowing his tanks up.

This from the guy who tosses around endearing terms like idiot, petulant liar, fool, moron, hideously bloated and truculent denialist scumbag, mentally aberrant conservative son of a diseased camel, morally deficient lizard brain, scion of a toad and a slime mould, repugnant eater of children and defiler of mothers, Republican voter, a wart on the rump of the body politic, viewer of Faux News, disgusting purveyor of ideas picked up in the intellectual dung heaps of civilisation, soiler of underpants, bent over superannuated hag of obsolete ideologies, putrid despoiler of humanities past, present and future.