Maybe that curmudgeon of a boss has a curmudgeon of a boss.
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I'm kind of a stubborn curmudgeon in terms of definitions.
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Larry, curmudgeon of our dreams, is known for not having filter.
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I cannot deny that the Thoreau of Walden is a curmudgeon.
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I have always been a Valentine's Day curmudgeon — I hate it.
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Don't think Johnson is some curmudgeon who hates her job though.
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Then again, I'm a curmudgeon who's forgotten how to have fun.
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He's the crusty curmudgeon who looks pained every time he smiles.
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To some in the book world, Franzen is a talented curmudgeon.
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He was also an irascible curmudgeon who entertained theories of Aryan supremacy.
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Then Jim Carrey embodied the curmudgeon in a live-action 2000 version.
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Clint Eastwood has been doing the crusty curmudgeon thing for a while.
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Even the dourest curmudgeon should get a little dopamine from solving it.
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It's a nice idea in theory, even my inner curmudgeon must admit.
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To Donoghue's credit, Grumps is not the lovable curmudgeon one might expect.
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That's a move that belongs in the Curmudgeon Hall of Fame, first-ballot.
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In the end, he is a curmudgeon in style more than in substance.
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Image: NASAEarth is exhausting—excruciatingly so, if you're a young curmudgeon like me.
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"He's a swashbuckler, a sweetheart, a curmudgeon, and a father figure," Rothman said.
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Things that get better with age: wine, cheese and Marc Maron's curmudgeon act.
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Schatz added some nuance to the view of Sanders as purely a curmudgeon.
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Or that curmudgeon of an Archmaester is just withholding this knowledge for dramatic effect.
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I tell Old Man Curmudgeon he should have an XL-sized coffee cup offering.
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The nameless man — let's call him The Community Curmudgeon — threatened to call the police.
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What happened in Douglas' (John Malkovich) childhood to make him such an unbearable curmudgeon?
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"I was a curmudgeon," he said of Facebook's corporate culture in the early days.
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OK, I'll give you funny car, but just because I'm not a total curmudgeon.
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After six years, America's favorite curmudgeon is back to complaining about nothing and everything.
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But even the biggest brunch curmudgeon would struggle to call Lou predictable or boring.
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I'll be the first to admit: I'm a curmudgeon when it comes to tech.
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He was a perhaps a bit of a dyskolos, a grouch, cantankerous, a curmudgeon.
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Even noted curmudgeon Simon Cowell cracked a smile as Islam conquered the ballad's high notes.
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"He was a dedicated storyteller, performer, curmudgeon and irascible and difficult man," her statement said.
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I don't anymore, and there's no vivid anecdote to explain my slide into culinary curmudgeon.
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He also became something of a curmudgeon in the industry he pioneered through Vanguard Group Inc.
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Some neighbors saw him as a curmudgeon whose life inside the shuttered storefront remained a mystery.
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"I hope I don't go down in history as the curmudgeon that rained all over this," Greenhill says.
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Murray has gone from Saturday Night Live star to Ghostbuster to serious dramatic actor to Oscar-losing curmudgeon.
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His opponent cowered in fear and attempted to deflect the fuselage of bread bombs from the crusty curmudgeon.
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Hey, but just because I won't give you one thing that you want doesn't mean I'm a complete curmudgeon.
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Chuck, a swan who lives at the Sunriver Nature Center in Oregon, is known as a bit of curmudgeon.
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Eastwood's latest curmudgeon is Earl Stone, one of those hard movie men in need of a deep-tissue softening.
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Young is an iconoclast and unapologetic curmudgeon, who had said he worried the bill would be bad for his state.
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During the broadcast, CBS curmudgeon Dan Fouts, channeling his inner Joe "Disgusting Act" Buck, was not having any of it.
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It attempts, for example, to portray her father—a frustrated, angry, and often frightening man—as an ultimately lovable curmudgeon.
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Sweet, seductive Venus will kiss up to the curmudgeon of the zodiac, helping ground you during an emotionally difficult situation.
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DR. SEUSS' THE GRINCH Dr. Seuss' curmudgeon Who tries Christmas to snatch Returns in cartoon form Voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch.
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I remind myself of this when the kids on the train these days yell "Showtime!" and I turn instant curmudgeon.
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"Broadcast TV, Reboots 'R' Us," noted TV curmudgeon Bill Gorman, who goes by the pseudonym TV Grim Reaper on Twitter.
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Perhaps less incendiary yet no less impactful was the attack on Facebook posted by legendary singer-songwriter and curmudgeon Neil Young.
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He's self-aware—he knows people will call him a curmudgeon or an asshole—but he doesn't see himself as a villain.
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It's like if Pokémon Go could make you smarter, instead of … whatever it currently does (I don't know; I am a curmudgeon).
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I always greet them with a warm hello, and they respond in kind — that is, except for one curmudgeon of a cashier.
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Anyway, if you, like me, are a grumpy curmudgeon, this app is great if you want to find a quiet place to chat.
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As Salinger, the formidable Chris Cooper has a brief but masterly turn, sympathetically rendering the writer as a curmudgeon defending his literary offspring.
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The biggest curmudgeon on the block, Ove is a jobless widower who likes to think he runs the condo association and everybody's lives.
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"I am Larry David," Sanders told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who had asked Sanders to do his best impression of the curmudgeon-y comedian.
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Yes, there was the mischief and sure, he was often a curmudgeon, but there were often love and life lessons behind those tough exteriors.
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His After character, Hardin Scott, is a curmudgeon at best, blaring Red Flag at worst — and Fiennes Tiffin doesn't seem to be anything like him.
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That unreliability drives The Sense of an Ending, which stars Jim Broadbent as an aging curmudgeon named Tony whose past comes roaring back to life.
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Thomas was a curmudgeon, a "self-tortured, aggravating mystery of a man" as Kathy Chamberlain writes in her new book, and a prize chauvinist besides.
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After British chef and culinary curmudgeon Gordon Ramsay basically told the world that pineapple on pizza is a culinary faux pas, people started taking sides.
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I am really not trying to be a curmudgeon or a brat, but Disney has ruined my life and all future trips to Disney World.
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And along with it comes everybody's favorite ruthlessly unrepentant curmudgeon who refuses to comply with the general rules of common decency and decorum, Larry David.
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We don't make it harder for all landowners to sue for trespass simply because one curmudgeon frightens children who walk too closely to his lawn.
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By making her an unlucky person as opposed to a lucky person, it avoids her turning into some kind of curmudgeon who drives everyone mad.
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One might find him an old curmudgeon (even if his supposed "rudeness" cannot possibly be put into the same category as Mr. Trump's spectacular cruelty).
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Tasha: I don't want to be too much of a curmudgeon about something that's been inserted into the film for kids, and something kids actively enjoy.
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The series premiere introduces the House of Harlow designer's character, news anchor Portia, as an extreme foil to her curmudgeon co-anchor Chuck (John Michael Higgins).
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Gossage immediately vaulted himself to legendary curmudgeon status by dropping F-bombs, S-bombs and lashing out left and right in a short interview with ESPN.
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In "Olive, Again" she resurrects the endearing curmudgeon from Crosby, Maine in thirteen interconnected stories that remind us that you're never too old to grown up.
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After that, he settled into a comfortable, if marginal, existence on the right-wing fund-raising circuit and as a curmudgeon appearing regularly on Fox News.
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EJ: So I'm gonna be the curmudgeon, I think, on this podcast, because I've used so much VR that I'm hyper critical of all VR demos.
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What they knew of him was just the fun curmudgeon that would be on The Apprentice and every once in a while on wrestling, on WWE Raw.
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Fredrik Bachman's A Man Called Ove Sometimes you're the elderly curmudgeon at the heart of this story, and sometimes you're the neighbors who run over his mailbox.
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The dusty old curmudgeon in the heart of my being sighed with disappointment at this imposition of screen-based technology on yet another facet of our existence.
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With each disembodied quote, with each one-way transmission, he is reduced to a Luddite and a curmudgeon and a hater and a snob and worse. Franzen!
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The lovable curmudgeon pours his literary talents into vituperative letters of recommendation, which may not be appreciated by their fictional recipients, but provide wicked fun for readers.
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Of course, as I dribble toward curmudgeon territory age-wise, that optimism is inevitably overtaken by fears that the reception will mostly be negative — and loudly so.
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Worse, as I learned, to call attention to any of this was to unintentionally cast oneself as an enemy of the market or an anti-technology curmudgeon.
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"211 Song Memoir" is also one of the first times Merritt is singing about himself directly and not the media caricature of Merritt as a lovable curmudgeon.
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"50 Song Memoir" is also one of the first times Merritt is singing about himself directly and not the media caricature of Merritt as a lovable curmudgeon.
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I chat with my home base co-teacher about her day before saying goodbye to her and the class chinchilla, a curmudgeon who occasionally is a love bug.
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Its last house belonged to a total curmudgeon: a white man who complained that the previous deliverer reached him by 5:15 AM, and that I was lazy.
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"Del was a curmudgeon while Charna explained things to you," said Rachel Dratch, who studied and performed at the iO before being cast on "Saturday Night Live" in 1999.
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Though Henry David Thoreau is sometimes cast as a curmudgeon, this view of him, as Mr. Cotter points out, ignores the deep empathy he felt for all living things.
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I fear I will reveal myself to be a true Valentine's curmudgeon, but there's something kind of maudlin about it all, down to the dutiful line at the corner florist.
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You get a sense that Asner's inner curmudgeon is coming out a bit, but as far as we're concerned, Asner should be Hollywood's go-to guy to play Santa Claus.
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Scrappy drawings of a curmudgeon youngster with a halo of curly hair and an obstinate, hunched posture are the themes of a second-generation, immigrant-born artist navigating her past.
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Diana Rigg, no longer needed in "Game of Thrones," joins the cast in high curmudgeon mode as a lady in waiting, a harrumphing embodiment of British propriety and narrow-mindedness.
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He's the creator of the Comics Curmudgeon and author of The Enthusiast, and his writing has appeared at The Awl, Wonkette, The Billfold, the Village Voice, Mel Magazine and CSO Online.
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To my relief, none of the answers that came back are likely to be on a Hallmark card anytime soon (I am not the only V-Day curmudgeon in the world!).
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DESPICABLE ME 3 Once a villain, still a curmudgeon, Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) matches wits with a bad guy (Trey Parker) who has a thing for '80s fashion and music.
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Cards Against Humanity, the crude, outrageous and ridiculous card game that can make even the biggest curmudgeon crack a smile, is looking for writers to come up with silly new material.
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And even I, a noted curmudgeon and hater of love, thought the scenes where Kristen Bell and William Jackson Harper grieved their about-to-end relationship were powerfully written and beautifully performed.
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Paul Krugman The New York Times columnist, economist and on-the-nose curmudgeon carefully and methodically debunks each one of Trump's obscene assertions about the economy with — get ready for it — actual facts.
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Aside from making you laugh, Lee Israel might have another thing in common with McCarthy's Bridesmaids character Annie: The role of a brilliant, misanthropic curmudgeon could very well earn her an Oscar nomination.
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Even for a milk-hating curmudgeon like me, this is hard to resist, and I walked out after all three of my meals there in a better mood than when I'd walked in.
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In the past two elections, the party has converged on an establishment-approved candidate: campaign finance maverick and tax cut curmudgeon John McCain, and health care reformin', hedge fund managin' former Massachusetts Gov.
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I could recognize that curmudgeon of a sourpuss face anywhere: That's Randyll Tarly (who we last saw politely demanding the death of his own son last season) speaking with Cersei in the Throne Room.
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He would have coffee delivered in his own white mug, and typically order the chicken potpie or, appropriately enough for an habitué whom his cousin described as a confirmed curmudgeon, the crab meat sandwich.
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The show centers on the Hill family, with Hank, the curmudgeon dad; Peggy, the warmly eccentric mom; their dim but wonderful 13-year-old son, Bobby; and an array of sometimes ridiculous neighbors and brethren.
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After losing his longtime railroad job, the resident curmudgeon (Rolf Lassgard) of a gated community heads home and decides to join his recently deceased wife by hanging himself — but is interrupted by his new neighbors.
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After losing his longtime railroad job, the resident curmudgeon (Rolf Lassgard) of a gated community heads home and decides to join his recently deceased wife by hanging himself — but he is interrupted by his new neighbors.
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Thompson's Katherine Newbury is very much a David Letterman type -- a set-in-her-ways curmudgeon who treats the new network president (Amy Ryan, under-employed) as the latest Christmas-help nuisance to pass through her orbit.
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That episode stars Patton Oswalt and Modern Family's Sarah Hyland, the former playing an old-school curmudgeon who brings "Shifter" glasses to 3D movies to turn them back into 2D, and complains (at needless length) about emoji.
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Spacey plays Nixon like a running gag until Elvis actually arrives, at which point he switches the president from canny-curmudgeon mode to political-charmer mode, and suddenly seems to be playing a man instead of a façade.
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Killjoy by Erika Curmudgeon by Reese Dekker and Ellie Sullivan Finesse by Eric, Jose and Parker Monotony by Masa Kawasaki Equinox by Caroline Knight Comeuppance by Cassie and Jason Guffaw by Meghan O'Brien Pry by Mark Chappell Disheartened
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For much of the later, noisier part of his Blur career, Damon Albarn had aped Mark E Smith's vocal delivery, so it's nice to hear the two together on "Glitter Freeze" with the latter doing his best curmudgeon.
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Unlike Jackson, Rivers is publicly accountable for his team on a near-daily basis, in large part because he doubles as coach, but also because he has not yet devolved into a holier-than-thou, thin-skinned curmudgeon.
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But how much mileage can you really get out of the fact Arthur is an old curmudgeon who refuses to get Wi-Fi and blows his stack when someone dares to order a cronut, touting the merits of old-fashioned pastry.
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But to dramatize this conflict, Shaft makes Jackson into a self-consciously old-school curmudgeon who's appalled by the supposedly feminized politeness of his son, who works for the FBI as a data analyst because he doesn't care for firearms.
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You might find the idea of a late night journey home soundtracked by a bloke playing grating FruityLoops techno from an iPad pretending that a tube carriage is his very own nightclub incredibly annoying, but that'd make you a curmudgeon.
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He often mixed sharp rhetoric with a wry sense of humor and established a reputation as a curmudgeon in his industry, at times at odds with Vanguard executives who eventually stripped him of much of his power within the organization.
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The McCain of that era is the McCain of liberal fantasies: a curmudgeon who had anger issues but was ultimately good-hearted, a conservative who you could compromise with, the sort of statesman America would like to believe it produces regularly.
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They came to bid farewell to John Sidney McCain III, son and grandson of admirals, naval aviator, tortured prisoner, congressman, six-term senator, two-time presidential candidate, patriot, maverick, reformer, warrior, curmudgeon, father, husband and finally, in death, American icon.
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And so, for me, his greatest achievement is that he didn't become a curmudgeon like Hilton Kramer, or beat a retreat to focus on the past; instead, he continued to review prolifically even as much contemporary art becomes obviously alien to his sensibility.
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Trends be damned, I'm going to continue to be a curmudgeon about it, if only because once this week I left both the dongle and my Bluetooth headphones at the office, so I couldn't listen to music or podcasts the next day.
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The droid, voiced by veteran voice actor Alan Tudyk, has a curmudgeon-like bluntness that often lends itself to comedy, making K-2SO different from the three other main droids in the "Star Wars" series, R2-D2, C-3PO and BB-8.
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The Sanders team just announced a new podcast, The Bernie Sanders Show, in which the progressive movement's favorite curmudgeon will wax poetic on the issues of the day in an attempt to carry on the momentum he built during the 2016 election.
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Mr. Moss started out as the neighborhood curmudgeon of the internet, writing his first post, "oh Chumley's we love you get up," in 2007 when the Greenwich Village restaurant and onetime speakeasy closed after part of a wall and a chimney collapsed.
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His charisma, also present, can be tougher to identify since he's a bit of a curmudgeon; his hold on people doesn't come so much from making everyone around him feel upbeat and cheery as it does from his ability to cut through all bullshit.
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"Next Door" anticipates the curmudgeon-moppet bonding of Mr. Docter's great Oscar-winning film "Up" (2009), but it also finds this artist — known for his computer animation — working in a delightful hand-drawn style, with characters whose eyebrows are as expressive as their smiles.
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He was a curmudgeon who talked straight, maybe a little too straight: During one debate, he said that some of the other Democratic candidates "frighten" him because they wouldn't rule out the use of nuclear weapons and told Joe Biden he had a "certain arrogance" about him.
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It takes great pains to paint protagonist Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) as something of a 19973s Archie Bunker—a "politically incorrect" but lovable curmudgeon who says "fudgepacker" and "fag" and "colored," but in ornate, well-paced comic speeches, delivered under the devilish eyebrows of good ol' Jack.
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Anyway, it's pretty clear that whoever was throwing their Cowboys helmet—despite them being at San Francisco's Levi's Stadium—was a Dallas fan likely trying to get an autograph, but it's a distinct possibility that a 9ers fan might have bought the helmet just to smack the abjectly evil curmudgeon.
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In 2004, in a piece called "Troublemaker," Russ wrote a review of "Losing America," a book by Robert Byrd, the legendary curmudgeon from West Virginia, heartily praising Mr. Byrd for standing up in 2002 (unlike John Kerry, for instance) to George W. Bush's appeal for Senate authorization to invade Iraq.
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The morning-news anchor, the worldly talk-show host, the animation genius with the awful shirts, "feminist" men, liberals, tortured artists, moguls, icons, "bad boys," funny guys, even the folksy curmudgeon from public radio: they are being fired; stepping down; awkwardly apologizing, engendering ridicule and pique; or defending themselves and inviting rage.
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But what the depositions do provide is a revealing snapshot of Munson, who was sometimes a curmudgeon but was always the bedrock of a high-wattage Yankees team that had won the previous two World Series amid all the distractions served up by Jackson and Martin and George Steinbrenner, the team's unpredictable owner.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE (I-Vt.), that lovable curmudgeon of candor and fight, is flaming out, and the one "Bern-ing" sensation he's feeling right now is about what could have been.
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In the red corner: the most left-wing Labour Party since the 1980s, led by an anti-Western, Euroskeptic curmudgeon who promises a renegotiation of the EU Withdrawal Agreement within three months, followed by a second referendum within six months "to get Brexit sorted," but refuses to say which way he would vote.
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The slightly feline feyness we all fell for in Withnail and I is still there, and bursts into life with his portrayal of Jack Hock, the heavy-drinking, coke-dealing, hard-fucking accomplice to Melissa McCarthy's "absolute porcupine curmudgeon" (his words), Lee Israel—the American author known for forging letters by deceased actors and literary figures.
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Though Mr. Aznavour's fame has come largely from his work as a singer-songwriter and actor — he has appeared in more than 60 films, including Francois Truffaut's "Shoot the Piano Player," in which he played the title role, and the French-language version of "Up," in which he did the voice of the curmudgeon widower — he has a lifelong fondness for stage musicals.
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Other deadline day happenings: - Phoenix's arduous quest to dump human misery index Markieff Morris reached a surprisingly fruitful conclusion, as Ernie Grunfeld—known around the nation's capital as Teflon Don, per resident Wizards curmudgeon Patrick Hruby—traded away a top-nine protected first-round pick in this year's draft, Kris Humphries, and DeJuan Blair for the 26-year-old Kansas product.
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