Or you can focus on his irascibility, his grandiosity and the bellicosity of his believers.
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All will be well: Trump's incompetence will outweigh his irascibility, his lies, and his provocations.
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No TMI; no mention of a judge's irascibility or punitive remarks when confronted with an annoying or aggressive litigator.
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Irascibility, impetuosity and inattention define him, however curtailed they may prove to be by his entourage and the responsibilities of power.
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Soon he will have at his disposal far more potent weapons than Twitter to assuage his irascibility and channel his cruelty.
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He is paying the bill for irascibility and both Russia and China will milk it for all its worth to them and their national interests.
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Even Knight could unveil a charming side—his famous irascibility seemed to be deployed as a strategic ICBM—but Boeheim doesn't really seem to have that gear.
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Dramatic instinct and poetic sensibility are the hallmarks of Eric Moe's music; his compositional voice is always distinct, whether in works of dreamy reticence or rhythmic irascibility.
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His irascibility also comes with joie de vivre, especially as it regards his love for junk food, and his beanpole physique stands as a testament to his metabolism.
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At some point, all the good- and bad-cop playacting, and the proper alchemy of restraint and irascibility, must at least occasionally be followed by not just action but meaningful action.
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Tennant nails Hardy's grumpy, anti-sociable irascibility, and Colman flawlessly covers pretty much every human emotion under the sun (her character has a pretty harrowing time of it, especially in the first two seasons).
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The dancers occasionally push and shove, and at one point take on the role of police officers to thrust someone spread-eagle against the back wall, but there's no convincing aggression, violence or malice — not even everyday irascibility.
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Perhaps the best evidence of how fiercely Tapper protects his reputation is that — despite his irascibility being a kind of Washington legend — I can't find any reference to it in a series of recent glowing profiles of the CNN anchor.
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But whereas Trainspotting was about the ineffable, shatterproof irascibility of a particular slice of '90s youth culture, T173 is a nod to an emptier middle age, when the temptation to cast a longing eye back to your younger days becomes irresistible.
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A list of their faults could continue with irascibility, narcissism, idiosyncracy, high-handedness and a poor taste in friends.
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Flashing eyes may indicate the anger or irascibility of Charon as he is often characterized in literature, but the etymology is not certain. The ancient historian Diodorus Siculus thought that the ferryman and his name had been imported from Egypt.Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, "Reading" Greek Death (Oxford University Press, 1996), p.
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Joe Leydon of Variety wrote that the film was "a lightly likable trifle that benefits greatly from the offbeat casting of vet heavy Sid Haig" and even though it "predictably evolves into a seriocomic tale of personal redemption through clowning around", "Haig maintains just enough irascibility to keep things interesting".
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Bishop allegedly had an ugly temperament. In a 2005 American National Public Radio interview, Charles Martell, the maker of Stinking Bishop cheese, related a story that Bishop got angry at his kettle one day for not heating fast enough and in retaliation shot it. This story, although apocryphal, illustrates the sort of behaviour which earned Bishop his reputation for irascibility.
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John is recorded as citing two main reasons for choosing Manuel over his older brother Isaac: Isaac's irascibility, and the courage that Manuel had shown on campaign at Neocaesareia.Choniates, pp. 24–26Angold (1984), pp. 157–158 Another theory alleges that the reason for this choice was the AIMA prophecy, which foretold that John's successor should be one whose name began with an "M".
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Carlyle developed a painful stomach ailment, possibly gastric ulcers, that remained throughout his life and likely contributed to his reputation as a crotchety, argumentative, somewhat disagreeable personality. His prose style, famously cranky and occasionally savage, helped cement an air of irascibility. plaque by the London County Council Carlyle's thinking became heavily influenced by German idealism, in particular, the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
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He took advantage of the Olympic Games and the attendant publicity to promote his city. Selleck gained a reputation for directness and efficiency, characteristics which were sometimes interpreted as irascibility by council staff. He was a self-made man, and his success had been earned. In 1956 he failed to win Liberal and Country Party pre-selection for a seat in the Legislative Council.
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Although intelligent and brave, his career was several times set back by his irascibility and vanity. On 10 June 1810, Sarrazin went over to the British and revealed French weaknesses. Condemned in absentia to death by a conseil de guerre, he did not return to France until the Bourbon Restoration. He offered his services to Napoléon Bonaparte during the Hundred Days, but was thrown in prison.
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For one thing, his irascibility and the regularity with which he lost his temper made many of his party friends worry that he lacked the self-control necessary to be speaker. The party's job would be hard enough without what one newspaper called Mills's "tempestuous style.""New York Evening Post," November 8, 1890. His selection would have signaled that the Democratic Party's main agenda would be lowering the tariff drastically.
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Furnivall was one of the three founders and, from 1861 to 1870, the second editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Despite his scholarship and enthusiasm, his stint as editor of the OED nearly ended the project. For a dictionary maker he had an unfortunate lack of patience, discipline and accuracy. After having lost the sub-editors for A, I, J, N, O, P, and W through his irascibility or caprice, he finally resigned.
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Expectations ran high among the forces for an invasion of England, but were defeated in the following year when the Spanish Armada was driven from the Dutch coast. As Spain gradually regained its strategic initiative over England, Archer was reported to be following Stanley's regiment throughout 1590. In September of the following year he was at Brussels, recovering from an illness. His superiors still considered him of middling ability, and the impression of melancholy and irascibility persisted.
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Paired with Mansfield she appeared in Old Heidelberg, Beau Brummel, A Parisian Romance and Beaucaire. According to friends of Conquest, the actor never demonstrated his characteristic irascibility while working with her. Additional theatrical productions in which Conquest participated are The Girl With The Green Eyes, written by Clyde Fitch, The Money Makers, Man and Superman, Little Brother of the Rich, Wolf, and The Talker. Her final New York appearance was with Alla Nazimova in Little Eyolf (1910).
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When in school, she did well in her studies. She left home shortly afterward. On 25 April 1867, a probate court in Boston committed her to the Taunton Lunatic Asylum, during which time she was also known as Alice Howard. Her attending physician was Norton Folsom, who indicated the "form of her disease was mania, which was manifested by excitement, irascibility, incoherence of speech and violent conduct", and that her condition was "caused by some disease peculiar to females".
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Carney recalled his own association with de Steiguer as fraught with "constant pressure, irascibility, criticism, and unpleasantness". Carney eventually marched into de Steiguer's cabin, snapped, "Admiral, I just want to tell you I think you are a goddamn rotten son of a bitch," and stormed out. After failing to retrieve Carney via Marine orderly, de Steiguer visited Carney's cabin in person, said, "Sonny, you've been working too hard. You and I are going ashore," and took Carney on an epic drinking binge.
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Octavia is a Roman tragedy that focuses on three days in the year 62 AD during which Nero divorced and exiled his wife Claudia Octavia and married another (Poppaea Sabina). The play also deals with the irascibility of Nero and his inability to take heed of the philosopher Seneca's advice to rein in his passions. The play was attributed to Seneca, but modern scholarship generally discredits this, since it contains accurate prophecies of both his and Nero’s deaths.R Ferri ed.
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He idolised and spoiled his son, William Jr., but in most respects his household grew increasingly disordered over the following year: his marriage deteriorated, and he spent more and more time away from home. His part-time work as a drama critic provided him with an excuse to spend his evenings at the theatre. Afterwards he would then tarry with those friends who could tolerate his irascibility, the number of whom dwindled as a result of his occasionally outrageous behaviour.Wardle, p. 162.
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Royal patronage resumed in around 1813, when Beechey was appointed portrait painter to Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, and culminated with his appointment in 1830 as principal portrait painter to King William IV. In 1836, Beechey retired to Hampstead and on 9–11 June that year, the contents of his studio along with his collection were sold at Christie's. Although capable of impetuousness and irascibility, Beechey was known for his generosity to students. In particular, he took a close interest in the career of the young John Constable.
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He returned to a television talk show format with his Reencuentro a solas ("Solo Re-encounter") in 1996, a promising return derailed by his increasing irascibility. A dispute with Mirtha Legrand (arguably the most influential woman in Argentine television) and musician José Larralde led to the show's closure that October.José Larralde Returning to radio, he hosted Guerrero de noche ("Guerrero at Night") on Radio del Plata; but, in 1998, the evening program was canceled. The following year, his wife filed for divorce and Guerrero Marthineitz, a long-time smoker, was diagnosed with bladder cancer.
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He was physically large, prone to obesity (especially in his later years), and was by all accounts often intimidating and frightening when expressing anger or displeasure. When confronted with a nightclub audience talking and clinking ice in their glasses while he performed, Mingus stopped his band and loudly chastised the audience, stating: "Isaac Stern doesn't have to put up with this shit." Mingus reportedly destroyed a $20,000 bass in response to audience heckling at the Five Spot in New York City. Guitarist and singer Jackie Paris was a first-hand witness to Mingus's irascibility.
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Griffin's irascibility frequently led to conflict with his superiors, but his leadership abilities brought steady promotion.Handbook of Texas Online General Griffin and his staff Assigned command of a division in the V Corps, he served at the Battle of Fredericksburg and during the Chancellorsville Campaign. Stricken with illness, he turned over command of the division to a subordinate and did not accompany it during the early part of the Gettysburg Campaign. Arriving as the Battle of Gettysburg was winding down, his return was widely celebrated by his men.
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Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe (6 July 1900 – 27 June 1949), was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in the Alps as well as in the Himalayas, where he identified a region that he named the "Valley of Flowers", now a protected park. His ascents include two new routes on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc, Kamet, and attempts on Kangchenjunga and Mount Everest in the 1930s. It was said that he had a tendency for irascibility, something some of his mountaineering contemporaries said "decreased with altitude".
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Carl Spaatz,When Spaatz elected to legally change the spelling of his surname from "Spatz" to "Spaatz" at the urging of his wife Ruth, Olds recommended to him the same attorney he had used for his own name change. his son fondly noted, they often ended with singing accompanied by Olds on the piano and Spaatz on the guitar. Olds had a reputation for irascibility, part of which may have been due to arthritis, noted William H. Tunner, a subordinate at Air Corps Ferrying Command in 1941. He was often in pain but not crippled by the affliction.
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Thayer also looked for new leadership for the newspaper. In 1961—the same year Whitney returned to New York—the Tribune hired John Denson, a Newsweek editor and native of Louisiana who was "a critical mass of intensity and irascibility relieved by interludes of amiability." Denson had helped raise Newsweek's circulation by 50 percent during his tenure, in part through innovative layouts and graphics, and he brought the same approach to the Tribune. Denson "swept away the old front- page architecture, essentially vertical in structure" and laid out stories horizontally, with unorthodox and sometimes cryptic headlines; large photos and information boxes.
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Intercessions were meanwhile made for his return to England, though John Calvin exhorted him to finish his work in Scotland. Goodman's irascibility impeded his progress. Cecil told Sadler in 1559 that, next to Knox, Goodman's name was the most odious of his party to Elizabeth, and fellow reformer John Jewel wrote that Goodman was "a man of irritable temper, and too pertinaceous in anything he has once undertaken". However, John Erskine, 6th Lord Erskine favoured his views, and in 1562 asked leave to bring him in his train to a projected meeting between Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Originally named the Border Watchman, the Monroe Watchman was founded by Elbert Fowler in February 1872. Fowler, who was known for an "irascibility of temper that amounted to an infirmity," had learned the newspaper trade from his father at the Bristol News in Bristol, Tennessee. Moving to Union he established the four page Democratic weekly, which in its initial years it was known for a vicious back and forth with other local paper the Register, run at that time by Richard Burke. Due to an altercation with Burke, the two engaged in a pistol fight where neither was wounded.
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Guy Lodge, of Variety magazine, attended the worldwide premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. After the screening, he described Smith's portrayal of Mary Shepherd as "one of the most tailor-made leading roles of her late career". Even though, he says, the film is "low on narrative drive" and "marred by a misjudged final act", "Hytner's amiable [love] fest" is "enlivened by Smith’s signature irascibility; silver- dollar auds should turn up, if not in droves, at least in healthy vanloads.". Frank Scheck, of The Hollywood Reporter, also attended the premiere, and like Lodge, he felt Smith's character was the "driving force" behind the film.
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Hackenschmidt was also given to depression and irascibility. When he came to Chicago to train for his first match with Gotch, promoter Jack Curley had arranged for Hackenschmidt to work out every day before a paying public, which Hackenschmidt refused to do. Barred from the athletic club, he spent his time before the match either exercising in his room or taking morning and evening walks along Lake Michigan, but no serious workouts. The more depressed he got, the more difficult he was to work with, and this all worked against him because, for the first time in his professional career, Hackenschmidt faced a foe fully capable of defeating him.
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Heinlein was a graduate of the Naval Academy, where he knew the family of Ernest J. King, later to be Chief of Naval Operations during World War II, and had dated one of his daughters and been the usher at the wedding of another. King, who was known throughout his life for his irascibility, took command of the aircraft carrier Lexington in 1930. Ensign Heinlein was assigned to the ship and served under King for the next year and a half and interacted with him frequently.Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948, Learning Curve, William H. Patterson, Jr., Tor, New York, pages 126—143 In Methuselah's Children, after the Families have taken over the starship, they appoint a Family member, Rufus ("Ruthless") King, to be its commander.
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In 1619 Dominis published in London from a manuscript Paolo Sarpi's Historia del Concilio Tridentino. This history of the Council of Trent appeared in Italian, with an anti-Roman title page and letter dedicatory to James I. The manuscript had been obtained from Sarpi for George Abbot by his agent Nathaniel Brent.. His vanity, avarice, and irascibility soon lost him his English friends; the projected Spanish marriage of Prince Charles made him anxious about the security of his position in England, and the election of Pope Gregory XV (9 February 1621) furnished him with an occasion of intimating, through Catholic diplomatists in England, his wish to return to Rome. The king's anger was aroused when De Dominis announced his intention (16 January 1622), and Star-Chamber proceedings for illegal correspondence with Rome were threatened. Eventually he was allowed to depart, but his chests of hoarded money were seized by the king's men, and only restored in response to a piteous personal appeal to the king.
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Despite his considerable ability, Willis was noted to have a naturally rather difficult temperament, which was not improved by his clashes with colleagues over what he perceived as their lax moral standards. The novelist Rolf Boldrewood, Willis's neighbour while posted in Sydney, described his 'genial and gracious' personality while shooting, which when in court became "impatience of contradiction... acerbity of manner, and... infirmity of temper" "painful to witness and dangerous to encounter".'Redmond Barry: an Anglo-Irish Australian', Ann Galbally, 1995 The Melbourne journalist and author Garryowen recorded: "Such was his irascibility and so often was the Court the arena of unseemly squabbles that people who had no business there attended to see 'the fun', for, as there was no theatre in town, Judge Willis was reckoned to be 'as good as a play'". Nonetheless, he was known for his brilliance and wit, as well as "a humaneness that was unfashionable, even unsavoury, for the times", as shown by his provision- at his own expense- of roast beef and plum pudding to all the prisoners in Melbourne jail on New Year's Day 1842.
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