In conversation, he is expansive, sometimes peevish and occasionally funny.
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I get peevish when software crashes or hardware conks out.
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But the peevish mood, particularly in Britain, does not bode well.
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Indeed, there is something peevish in not reaching an obvious conclusion.
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Most importantly, he marches on with his banal and peevish tweets.
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So passionate, so partisan—and, too often these days, so prolifically peevish.
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Mr. Rechnitz, who had been curt in many of his responses, grew peevish.
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Her Gloria is basically a walking emotional hazmat zone: toxic, peevish, perpetually self-involved.
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The book is "peevish, tender and deeply, distinctively odd," our critic Parul Sehgal writes.
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He was by turns peevish and defensive, complete with eye-rolling and derisive smirks.
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Instead, Trump delivered a peevish and defensive response that's unleashed a multi-pronged political controversy.
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Michael Dorf, a leftish professor at Cornell, laments Mr Posner's "peevish" turn in recent years.
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"Natural Causes" is peevish, tender and deeply, distinctively odd — and often redeemed by its oddness.
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I think it's teaching Americans how to be peevish and how to stereotype one another.
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One day, the ladies' peevish neighbor Ray Dooley (Aaron Monaghan) arrives with an invitation for Maureen.
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This prosperous people, this land of reasonable men, has no place for petty partisanship or peevish prejudice.
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Harriet is peevish and high-minded; she doesn't care for the "riverboat aesthetic" of a nearby McDonald's.
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Which sounds like the premise of a Sandra Bullock rom-com, except Phoebe is a peevish weirdo.
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People close to the president called it a course correction after his peevish reaction to Mr. McCain's death.
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Instead of being a joker above the fray, he came across as petulant and peevish, often yelling incoherent answers.
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That prompted a peevish Mrs Simpson Miller to threaten to sue, and to pull out of three planned debates.
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At night, as Gertrude and I bend over our carding, Christina watches us, sharp-eyed and peevish, breathing wetly.
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Trump's peevish tweet seems to be based on a misunderstanding of Macron's comments about building up Europe's unified military.
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Indeed, the whole film is oddly poised between the pensive and the peevish, with a topdressing of high jinks.
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As stupid and peevish as President Trump's tweet was, it's not likely actionable on Nordstrom's part for a number of reasons.
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"I think it shows you how petty and peevish and partisan the Democratic Party has come," Conway said on Fox News.
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People believed it hosted a sultanate of sometimes peevish spirits who had to be soothed, not shunned, when they were angry.
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If it has been a while since I have been aloft, I'm restless, peevish, mindless, tired—useless as a human being.
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Gamergate was sparked in 2014 by the peevish post of an unhappy former boyfriend of one of the gaming industry's few female developers.
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"Can't tell if @realDonaldTrump is being peevish or diabolical by threatening debate boycott over @megynkelly," he wrote, referencing Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly.
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Not only did Bloomberg not provide effective comebacks, he came across as peevish and irritated at having to participate in a democratic process.
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He was an older man, weary-looking and yawning, scowling at my Massachusetts license plate, his manner, in the Mexican policeman way, peevish.
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But one thing he could control, though, was his voice: he sounded like a peevish nasal-sounding child just returned from fresh hurt.
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"I think it shows you how petty and peevish and partisan the Democratic Party has come," Conway said on "America's Newsroom" on Fox News.
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His tweets since the phone call have a rather peevish tone, as if complaining that China's ferocity on the subject of Taiwan is unreasonable.
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And the furor over his peevish post-convention outbursts led several prominent Republicans to disavow him, perhaps easing the way for others to follow.
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And then Christie hangs up, in the moment of his co-hosting gig in which he most closely resembled the world-historically peevish Francesa.
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She not only achieved these feats while living with the peevish Percy, but did so despite the long shadows of her parents, both famous geniuses.
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He started with a confident-sounding but totally nonsensical disquisition on trade policy, before shifting gears into a mode that was alternately peevish and listless.
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Despite Trump's preening claims to success, smarts and temperament, a presidential debate against Hillary Clinton would likely show him to be unprepared, inexperienced, peevish and boorish.
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It did seem to please him, though this probably isn't the last we'll see of Albert being peevish about having less power than he'd bargained for.
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It was a "peevish retort to a political provocation," David Axelrod wrote, adding that Trump's letter to Pelosi revealed much about how he views the world.
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Writing for Variety, Joe Leydon said, "Gerard Butler's Dracula seems more like a peevish male model than a true prince of darkness"; Scott Brake at IGN.
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Their nominee, Donald Trump, seems erratic — peevish, visibly annoyed at being referred to by his first name, lashing out at Rosie O'Donnell for some reason — and mired in controversy.
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A responsible president would move beyond peevish anger at congressional Republicans for failing to help him fulfill that vision and start reaching out to people who can help him.
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Throughout the book, Gaiman keeps his characters walking a fine line: They are powerful and immortal and divine and tragic, but they are also childish and peevish and petty.
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He already has his earbuds in, already wears that pinched look of his, a kind of peevish stare into the distance that signals he's more than primed—he's past due.
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That includes her exchanges with Deborah, who is alternately enthusiastic about the project and peevish -- convinced that the mother she never knew was exploited, and prone to believing wild conspiracy theories.
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It's possible that Anne — a peevish deity, staggering lost through the hallways of her own home, who eats cake until she vomits and then eats some more — is dealing with mental illness.
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He's been, at various moments, a giddy clown, mimicking other players for laughs; a peevish also-ran, faking injury rather than fighting through a loss; a spoiler; a moralist; a diet guru.
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Shame-faced, bashful, insolent, chaste, luxurious, peevish, prattling, silent, fond, doting, laborious, nice, delicate, ingenious, slow, dull, forward, humorous, debonair, wise, ignorant, false in words, true speaking, both liberal, covetous, and prodigal.
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Indeed there could, and he gave it to us, too, mocking Kim Jong-un's weight and height in a tweet that was like a snippet of peevish dialogue from a middle-school cafeteria.
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Of all the things the NFL could be, and all the ways it could be interesting, it has somehow wound up exactly as boring as the curdled, peevish, deeply dull people that own it.
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Or not so surprising, given that "The Orville" seems to be less about comedy or science-fiction than about Ed Mercer's middle-age angst, expressed primarily through his peevish anger toward his ex-wife.
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Over the course of three debates, Clinton has decisively won the temperament question, not only by remaining calm and unflappable but also by provoking her rival to constantly act in peevish and even childish ways.
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Yes, that was he — the peevish older gentleman at the next table at lunch (listed by his real name, David Cornwell, in the credits), the diner to whom Jonathan apologized after Corky's lobster salad meltdown.
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While the event was billed as a cozy exchange of ideas between two Wall Street heavy-hitters, it played out instead as a series of slightly peevish questions posed by Mr. Cryan to Mr. Fink.
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Yes, it was a crowded field this time in a way that it was not in 2016, when Sanders won by almost 23 percentage points over Clinton, in a way that presaged their long and peevish nominating contest.
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We were reminded that for all of his emotional turmoil and trauma, Elliot is a kind of superhero, as adept at hacking peevish sales managers, Blues Traveler-loving doofuses and custody-disputing dads as he is shipping manifests.
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He recalled John McCain, then chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, berating Defense Department officials once for not being prepared to answer his question, contorting his features into an uncanny impersonation of the famously peevish late senator.
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And there's his guitar sound again, messy and generative, a bit more laid-back than before, grooving through all kinds of rough, peevish tracks — a strange ballad ("Disney Girls"), a slow shuffle ("Quipster"), folk and funk and art-song.
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" Another paper put it this way: "An old maid is one of the most cranky, ill-natured, maggoty, peevish, conceited, disagreeable, hypocritical, fretful, noisy, gibing, canting, censorious, out-of-the-way, never-to-be-pleased, good-for-nothing creatures.
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OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY God help us: The two peevish, old Upper West Siders Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland — alter egos of the comedians Nick Kroll ("Kroll Show") and John Mulaney ("Saturday Night Live") — are getting their own Broadway show.
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But this latest turn in the conversation also underscores the degree to which Rowling has been successful in downplaying the peevish condescension and personal conservatism that she has flaunted in her writing outside the saga of the Boy Who Lived.
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Here and there, they can dip into the various whimsies tucked into the pages: Alice's extendable arms and legs, the foldout chess board and Humpty Dumpty's blank shell, which transforms into a peevish face with the turn of a dial.
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If WFAN offers him the job that he auditioned for on Monday and Tuesday, in the time slot long occupied by New York's peevish sports radio emperor Mike Francesa, Christie would start right around the time that his successor as Governor is sworn in. 2.
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Then of course there's Mr. Bloomberg, who responded to the beat-down by turning peevish and evasive, stumbling through grudging non-apologies for past misbehavior on matters of both policy (stop-and-frisk) and character (his reputedly sexist and demeaning treatment of women who worked for him).
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The evening was defined by peevish exchanges, raised voices, feeble attempts at humor, complaints about fairness in being allowed to speak and extended passages of cross-talk in which moderators lost control of the debate and it was impossible even to understand what was being said.
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Harvey has been a galvanic ace and a peevish enigma during his time with the Mets, often at the same time; more recently he has been injured, or at least seemingly trapped in the uneasy and delicate shadow state that exists just before or immediately following an injury.
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Yes, the sometimes grumpy-seeming, non-candy-coated, white-haired, 74-year-old socialist candidate, imitated so well by a peevish Larry David, has released a 60-second ad that is so full of love, enthusiasm and patriotic uplift (complete with flag-waving) that it's downright goose bump-inducing.
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Any wavering voters who might be lured his way will be making a decision about him — whether he's a protest vote with too high a price, whether a real leader can bloom where a peevish child still stomps and preens — and not about the appeal of Clinton's No. 2.
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So let's welcome Baltimore, mostly because I want to have at least one AL team, and let's give a slightly weary, peevish welcome to the Cardinals, who once again are using their patented Devil Magic formula to win baseball games that they have no right to win. 5.
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And, for a candidate often shielded by the scripted one-liners of killer campaign advisers, he was on his own — unable to hide his peevish demeanor and unable to portray himself, as his campaign has tried to do, as the clear choice to stop Bernie Sanders and beat Donald Trump.
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White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwaySenate acquits Trump, ending impeachment saga Gingrich calls on Pelosi to be censured: 'Disgusted' by 'viciously partisan action' Kellyanne Conway denounces Pelosi for ripping up Trump's speech MORE also lashed out at Pelosi on Wednesday, saying she was "petty and peevish" while also calling for the Speaker to be censured.
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" Larkin, the only poet with a bust in Amis's prose shrine, lets him down in his letters to Monica Jones, the longtime, long-suffering girlfriend who deserved better than the epistolary crumbs she was made to put up with: Larkin's prose [in the letters to her] is habitually perfunctory and pressureless: "Sun still shining here, but 'not for long' I fear"; "Of course, I might have been peevish anyway.
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When my kids were young and peevish and a carrot could cause a revolution—when Ruby loved oatmeal but hated Cream of Wheat, and Hans loved Cream of Wheat but hated oatmeal, and Evangeline wanted no breakfast at all; when every dinner was like the Yalta Conference and the table like enemy terrain, booby-trapped with vegetables that could go off in your face—I took courage from Calvin Schwabe.
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Peevish, querulous, a panegyrist of former times when he was a boy, a chastiser and censurer of his juniors.
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Peevish, querulous, a panegyrist of former times when he was a boy, a chastiser and censurer of his juniors.
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The reporters had at first been rather peevish at having been asked to risk their skins for old manuscripts, but they ended by being impressed by the scholar's overmastering enthusiasm.
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He deplored her behaviour, "capriciousness, peevish faces and sharp words". Gian Gastone stayed with his wife for a mere ten months, before fleeing to Prague. The princess refused to leave Reichstadt, despite her husband's constant protestations. She believed that the Medici were in the habit of murdering their consorts.
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With this sentence the chapter would have ended; but Hazlitt adds another paragraph, beginning with an announcement that he has just then learned of Byron's death. This sobering news, he says, has put "an end at once to a strain of somewhat peevish invective".Hazlitt 1930, vol. 11, pp. 77–78.
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Valen is a pianist and singer, and has a background in Nidarosdomens Guttekor and has studied music at Trondheim katedralskole. From 2004-2008 he played in the band Gallery, and released one record with the group. He now plays in the electronica group Amish 82 and the blues band Peevish Penfriend.
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"He has been represented to me by some," wrote Cunningham, "as a peevish and peremptory man while others describe him as mild and unassuming."Dunlap, v. I, p. 142. Both descriptions probably fitted Copley depending on his mood: he might be nervous from overwork and worry or in a normal condition.
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Riders became desperately tired. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle said: > The wear and tear upon their nerves and their muscles, and the loss of sleep > make them [peevish and fretful]. If their desires are not met with on the > moment, they break forth with a stream of abuse. Nothing pleases them.
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He deplored her behaviour, "capriciousness, peevish faces and sharp words". Gian Gastone stayed with his wife for a mere ten months, before fleeing to Prague. The Tuscan grand duchess refused to come to Tuscany, despite her husband's constant protestations. She believed that the Medici were in the habit of murdering their consorts.
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The character has been compared to other trickster figures, such as the Irish hero Bricriu Nemthenga and the Norse god Loki. Nikolai Tolstoy describes Efnisien as "the gallant if peevish Briton who selflessly sacrifices himself for his comrades", while he is characterised by Proinsias Mac Cana as a force of "irrational malice and hate".
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Having decided to seek other ladies to help share expenses, they reluctantly take on the elegant but peevish elderly Mrs. Fisher, and the stunning, aloof, and very wealthy Lady Caroline Dester. The four women come together at the castle and, after many unexpected twists and turns, find rejuvenation in the tranquil beauty of their surroundings, rediscovering hope and love.
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The superiority of country life over urban is a theme in The Good Master. Kate, a child of the city, is peevish and unhappy. Coming to the country, interacting with the animals and people who live and work on the land becomes her cure. The shepherd Kate meets while traveling with her Uncle spells Seredy's idea out.
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Bridgman could also be emotionally demanding of her young teacher, becoming peevish and short-tempered whenever Wight wanted some time alone.Gitter, p. 207. In 1845 at the age of sixteen, Bridgman developed anorexia, her weight falling from 113 pounds to 79 pounds.Gitter,. p. 207. Howe rightly surmised that Bridgman was "reacting to the many abandonments and losses she had endured,"Gitter, p. 210.
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His political position was already in jeopardy in 1947, when, he, seemingly inadvertently, revealed a sentence of the budget to a reporter minutes before delivering his budget speech. Prime Minister Clement Attlee accepted his resignation; Dalton later returned to the cabinet in relatively minor positions. His biographer Ben Pimlott characterised Dalton as peevish, irascible, given to poor judgment and lacking administrative talent.Loades, David ed.
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The Liberal Democrats claimed it raised "serious questions" and Chris Huhne said showed "inept and peevish behaviour that leaves Gordon Brown's reputation for honest dealing with our EU partners hanging by a thread". Parts of British media also criticised Brown for this, suggesting he did it because he was ashamed to sign the Treaty, with Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor, claiming that Brown was capable of attending the signing but instead chose not to.
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard's 1922 book The Worst Journey in the World mentions mistakes, and includes descriptions of Scott's character as "weak" and "peevish",Cherry-Garrard, p. 248. but still praises his heroism and concludes that he was "the last of the great geographical explorers".Cherry- Garrard, p. 659. Reflecting many years later in the 1940's, Cherry-Garrard privately resented Scott and his decision to take the dogs further than the original plan.
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Comparison of Vocalisations of Australian Falcons and Elanine Kites. EMU, 98, 1-12. Observations of hobbies during breeding identified that two main calls were used by adults. One was a rapid peevish chatter Kee-Kee-Kee- Kee-Kee which was given by the male as he brought prey to the nest area and was given by both sexes in alarm, when mobbing other predatory birds and when selecting and defending the nest.
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The madison began as a way of circumventing laws passed in New York in the US, aimed at restricting the exhaustion of cyclists taking part in six-day races. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle said: > The wear and tear upon their nerves and their muscles, and the loss of sleep > make them [peevish and fretful]. If their desires are not met with on the > moment, they break forth with a stream of abuse. Nothing pleases them.
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Little is known about Hawtrey's early years or later private life. He guarded his relationships very carefully in an era (lasting until 1967 in England) when male homosexual behaviour was illegal and punishable by a prison sentence. His outrageous drunken promiscuity did not attract sympathy, nor did his general peevish demeanour and increasing eccentricity earn him many close friends. If any of his fans asked him for an autograph, Hawtrey would swear at them and rip their paper in half.
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Juveniles partially moult into immature plumage soon after fledging and, while immature plumage is similar to adult plumage, juvenile tail and flight feathers are retained, and immatures can be identified by the presence of fault bars in the tail. Moult into adult plumage occurs in the first year. The grey-headed honeyeater produces a continuous, peevish chip call when feeding, and a wee-wee-wee song. Other vocalisations include a loud, single kwoyt and chee-toyt, which is possibly only emitted during breeding.
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A shrew's fiddle, used as mobile stocks for women in Austria and Germany during the Middle Ages. The large hole was for the neck with the smaller holes being for the wrists. By the middle 16th century, the opposing extremes of wifely personality traits were contrasted as "shrew" vs. "sheep". The earliest-known formal definition of shrew as applied to people is Samuel Johnson's, in the 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language: "peevish, malignant, clamorous, spiteful, vexatious, turbulent woman".
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The woman keeps the kitchen, makes tea, Sneezes at evening, poking the peevish gutter. I am an old man, A dull head among windy places. (13–17) The Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) stated that his long lyric poem L'ultimo viaggio was an attempt to reconcile the portrayals of Ulysses in Dante and Tennyson with Tiresias's prophecy that Ulysses would die "a mild death off the sea". Pascoli's Ulysses leaves Ithaca to retrace his epic voyage rather than begin another.
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Toward the end of his life, Charles I admitted that he had put too much trust in Laud, and allowed his "peevish humours" and obsession with points of ritual to inflame divisions within the Church: he warned his son not to rely on anyone else's judgment in such matters. Laud, on his side, could not forgive the king for allowing Strafford's execution, and dismissed his royal master as "a mild and gracious Prince, that knows not how to be or be made great".
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One of the best- known discussions of sylphs comes with Alexander Pope. In Rape of the Lock (final ed. 1717), Pope satirizes French Rosicrucian and alchemical writings when he invents a theory to explain the sylph. In a parody of heroic poetry and the "dark" and "mysterious" alchemical literature, and in particular the sometimes esoterically Classical heroic poetry of the 18th century in England and France, Pope pretends to have a new alchemy, in which the sylph is the mystically, chemically condensed humors of peevish women.
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Although the rest of his family were Royalist, he joined the Parliamentarians and attained the rank of colonel in the New Model Army. With Francis Hacker and Robert Phayre, he was one of the senior army officers delegated to supervise and carry out the King's execution. However, he refused to sign the order to the executioners, for which Oliver Cromwell berated him as a "peevish fellow". Arrested and brought to trial at the Restoration, Huncks was pardoned because he gave evidence against Daniel Axtell and Hacker.
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Another guest, Mr Emerson, interrupts their "peevish wrangling" by spontaneously offering to swap rooms. He and his son, George, both have rooms with views of the Arno, and he argues, "Women like looking at a view; men don’t." Charlotte rejects the offer, partly because she looks down on the Emersons' unconventional behaviour and because she fears it would place them under an "unseemly obligation". However, another guest, Mr Beebe, an Anglican clergyman, persuades Charlotte to accept the offer; Charlotte suggests that the Emersons are socialists.
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At the close of 1798, he was sent as second in command to St Vincent. It was for a long time a thankless post, for St Vincent was at once half incapacitated by ill-health and very arbitrary, while Horatio Nelson, who considered that Keith's appointment was a personal slight to himself, was peevish and insubordinate. In May 1799, he was unable to counter Bruix' expedition, mainly due to sparring among the British naval commanders. Keith followed the enemy to Brest on their retreat, but was unable to bring them to action.
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Her misbehaviour "broke her mother's heart" and "hastened her death"; Jane's guilt over this event and: > her peevish temper, preyed on her impaired constitution. She had not, by > doing good, prepared her soul for another state, or cherished any hopes that > could disarm death of its terrors, or render that last sleep sweet—its > approach was dreadful!—and she hastened her end, scolding the physician for > not curing her. Her lifeless countenance displayed the marks of convulsive > anger; and she left an ample fortune behind her to those who did not regret > her loss.
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By the waste of muscular tissue he is hardly able to undergo the exertion required for the discharge of his daily duties. But it is the nervous tissue that suffers most, inasmuch as his memory fails, his intellect becomes dull, he becomes morose and peevish, and shuns the agreeable society of his friends and relatives, and consequently he becomes subject to melancholia. His mind soon becomes exhausted after slight application and its power of retaining impressions is lost. If he becomes subject to melancholia, he sometimes attempts to commit suicide.
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New Comedy was the first theatrical form to have access to Theophrastus' Characters. Menander was said to be a student of Theophrastus, and has been remembered for his prototypical cooks, merchants, farmers and slave characters. Although we have few extant works of the New Comedy, the titles of Menander's plays alone have a "Theophrastan ring": The Fisherman, The Farmer, The Superstitious Man, The Peevish Man, The Promiser, The Heiress, The Priestess, The False Accuser, The Misogynist, The Hated Man, The Shipmaster, The Slave, The Concubine, The Soldiers, The Widow, and The Noise-Shy Man.
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In rural China, in 1935, all but one of the white residents of a remote Christian mission post are women. The strict Miss Agatha Andrews (Margaret Leighton) is the head of the mission, assisted by the meek Miss Argent (Mildred Dunnock). Charles Pether (Eddie Albert) is a mission teacher who always wanted to be a pastor; his peevish, panicky, self-centred and domineering middle-aged wife Florrie (Betty Field) is pregnant for the first time. Emma Clark (Sue Lyon) is the only young staff member, whom Miss Andrews treats as if she was her daughter.
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But old Pédret, who knows that his sons have their spirits broken, can see that Berthe has the blunt good sense they lack, and he arranges for Bethe and Hector to be married. While the bourgeois wives of the two other sons mope and become peevish, Berthe makes herself useful. In the war, she is a heroine of the Resistance; when the business is imperiled by a strike, she settles it by acceding to the workers demands. She takes over the dominant role in management, and becomes the new matriarch as well.
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The Services were an Ayrshire family, some of whom had been lenders of money. The father of Mary Service followed this profession, and was a man of penurious habits and peevish temper. His sons one after another left him for America, where they were under the shelter of an uncle. Ferguson was educated at Ayr, was for some time in a banker's office, went to America in connection with the affairs of one of his uncles, returned after four years, and in 1810 settled with his mother at Irvine.
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" His nationwide comedy tour, The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour, began on April 12 and ran through June 14. A documentary shot during that time, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, as well as a May 60 Minutes interview, prompted some observers to deem him "whiny". Vanity Fair James Wolcott said O'Brien "came off as a peevish straw of nervous energy ... a self-involved chatterbox." As NBC could have potentially retained intellectual property originating from O'Brien's entire 17-year tenure with the network,The Hollywood Reporter article: "NBC to keep Coco's masturbating bear.
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In film critic Bosley Crowther's review of A Stranger in My Arms for The New York Times, he noted: "A selfish, possessive mother is the squeaky hub around which turns a small wheel of conventional drama in Stranger in My Arms, a Universal-International picture that came to the Odeon yesterday. And a peevish and snarling Mary Astor turns up in the role. The accompanying emotional rotation, which is conspicuously ponderous and slow, is flattering neither to Miss Astor nor to the common concept of Mom."Crowther, Bosley.
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The noun peeve, meaning an annoyance, is believed to have originated in the United States early in the twentieth century, derived by back-formation from the adjective peevish, meaning "ornery or ill-tempered", which dates from the late 14th-century. The term pet peeve was introduced to a wide readership in the single-panel comic strip The Little Pet Peeve in the Chicago Tribune during the period 1916–1920. The strip was created by cartoonist Frank King, who also created the long-running Gasoline Alley strip. King's "little pet peeves" were humorous critiques of generally thoughtless behaviors and nuisance frustrations.
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In the post-war era, Elliott Brothers began concentrating on automation solutions for fire control, and on 1 December 1946 they began work on what would develop into the CDS. The initial idea was to collect ASDIC data on various targets from different ships in a task group and then produce a single unified view using a new display system that overlaid symbols on a large-format plan-position indicator (PPI) radar display. Elliott received a patent for this "Peevish" system in 1947. Although the initial concept was to net ASDIC data, in 1947 attention turned to the aircraft plotting problem.
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Thomas Pynchon refers to the Black Hole of Calcutta in the historical novel Mason & Dixon (1997). The character Charles Mason spends much time on Saint Helena with the astronomer Nevil Maskelyne, the brother-in-law of Lord Robert Clive of India; themes of colonialism and racism are discussed in relation to the event. Later in the story, Jeremiah Dixon visits New York City, and attends a secret "Broad-Way" production of the "musical drama", The Black Hole of Calcutta, or, the Peevish Wazir, "executed with such a fine respect for detail. . . ."Pychon, Thomas, Mason & Dixon, pp. 562–564.
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" Reaction to Pelosi tearing up the speech followed party lines in the days following the SOTU. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway described it as a "temper tantrum" which she believed was typical for Pelosi. "America saw an incorrigible child ripping up the State of the Union," Conway told reporters the day after the speech. "I think it shows you how petty and peevish and partisan the Democratic Party has become." Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, praised Pelosi's actions saying, "As far as I’m concerned, a shredder wasn’t available, and so she did what she needed to do.
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A month later she was in even greater despair about opera in London: > The Opera will not survive after this winter... I am certain excepting some > few, the English have no real taste for musick; for if they had, they could > not neglect an entertainment so perfect in its kind for a parcel of ballad > singers. I am so peevish about it, that I have no patience. However Siroe achieved a successful run of eighteen performances as Delany wrote on 19 March: "Operas are something mended within this fortnight; they are much fuller than they have been any time this winter." Nevertheless, Handel did not revive Siroe in any subsequent seasons.
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The accession of James I to the English throne brought the Millenary Petition, a Puritan manifesto of 1603 for reform of the English church, but James wanted a religious settlement along different lines. He called the Hampton Court Conference in 1604, and heard the teachings of four prominent Puritan leaders, including Laurence Chaderton, but largely sided with his bishops. He was well informed on theological matters by his education and Scottish upbringing, and he dealt shortly with the peevish legacy of Elizabethan Puritanism, pursuing an eirenic religious policy, in which he was arbiter. Many of James's episcopal appointments were Calvinists, notably James Montague, who was an influential courtier.
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It means you can do everything—sing, dance and above all, make people laugh." His purpose in life, he believed, was to make people laugh. In Groucho and Me, Groucho Marx called Skelton "the most unacclaimed clown in show business", and "the logical successor to [Charlie] Chaplin", largely because of his ability to play a multitude of characters with minimal use of dialogue and props. "With one prop, a soft battered hat", Groucho wrote, describing a performance he had witnessed, "he successfully converted himself into an idiot boy, a peevish old lady, a teetering-tottering drunk, an overstuffed clubwoman, a tramp, and any other character that seemed to suit his fancy.
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In the first anime adaptation, Sloth is the product of the Elric brothers' attempt to revive their mother, Trisha Elric, found by Dante and fed incomplete Philosopher's Stones until she assumes her original form's likeness. She is given the alias and appointed as King Bradley's personal secretary, allowing her to serve as the homunculi's direct contact within the State Military. She has a peevish personality, and is able to transform her body into a watery composition, which she uses to drown others by grabbing hold of them. During her final battle with the Elric brothers, Wrath, having merged with Trisha's remains earlier, merges with Sloth's body so that he would never have to be separated from her.
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Amis reserves his most serious criticism for what he considered to be academically pretentious rejections of the Bond books, a theme implicitly informing much of the Dossier. Each of the 14 chapters deals with one aspect of the novels — 'No woman had ever held this man' defends Bond's attitude to and treatment of women: "Bond's habitual attitude to a girl is protective, not dominating or combative"; 'Damnably clear grey eyes' describes M., the head of SIS: "a peevish, priggish old monster"; 'A glint of red' is about the villains, who have in common only physical largeness and angry eyes; and so forth. According to his first biographer, Eric Jacobs,Jacobs, Eric Kingsley Amis: A Biography.
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This hat focus (in terms of being head centred) may be interpreted as being representative of his higher status (see Estragon's boots) and his intellectual nature: because of this, he is usually taller than Estragon, but this is a convention of the theatre and is not written in the play. Despite this sometimes peevish and obsessive nature, Vladimir would seem to have a carnal side. He suffers from a venereal disease that causes him pain in his genitals and a need to urinate when he laughs. This might indicate a sexual past: he refers to a woman he knew who "had the clap"...although it is unclear whether this is the cause of his current condition or not.
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" Jessica Reaves of the Chicago Tribune awarded the film three out of four stars and described Queen Latifah as "soft, bold and very funny, infusing this otherwise predictable movie with a contagious charm." She added, "While this is not exactly a profound film, and the message is hardly new, it's testament to this movie's joyous energy that it doesn't matter in the least. We may know exactly where we're going, but the journey is so much fun, all but the most peevish audience members will find it impossible to complain." Janet K. Keeler of the St. Petersburg Times graded the film B- and commented, "Strong performances by Latifah, LL Cool J and Depardieu, who is strangely but perfectly cast, save Last Holiday from irrelevance.
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This leads back into the story of Leander's death:Edgecombe pp. 104–105 And thus it is, that happiest linked loves Glance and are gone sometimes, like passing doves; Or like two dancers gliding from a green; Or two sky-streaks, filling with clouds between, All we can hope is, that so sweet a smile Goes somewhere to continue; and meanwhile, Hopes, joys, and sorrows link our days together, Like spring, and summer-time, and wintery weather. For autumn now was over; and the crane Began to clang against the coming rain. And peevish winds ran cutting o'er the sea, Which at its best looked dark and slatily. (lines 193–204) The poem removes any emphasis on idyllic nature to describe the sublime:Edgecombe p.
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In 1977, Lenka Pichlíková finished her studies at the Faculty of Theatre of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She was a member of the Jiří Wolker Theatre company in Prague, where she had originally performed at the age of nine. She subsequently worked in the companies of the Theatre on the Balustrade, The Drama Club, and The Vinohrady Theatre in Prague, and performed as a guest artist in the National Theatre in Prague. Among her roles during this period was Petrunjela in Uncle Maroje by Marin Držić, and two roles in Insect Play by Karel and Josef Čapek (DISK Theatre - Faculty of Theatre), further Bianca in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (Jiří Wolker Theatre), Anna in Vladislav Vančura's Peevish Summer (The Vinohrady Theatre), Anička in Josef Tajovský's Women's Law (The Drama Club).
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New Viceroy Archibald Wavell, recommended his unconditional release, Leo Amery the secretary of state for India convinced Churchill to release Gandhi on medical grounds, so he was released. Instead of dying Gandhi showed remarkable resilience and recovered. It was quite funny when Churchill sent Wavell a peevish telegram asking why Gandhi has not died yet? Communal problem was the greatest problem for any political advance in India, so Wavell also began to agree with Amery's conviction that until "Aged Trinity" (Gandhi, Churchill and Jinnah) is in lead there is a little chance of any political advance. Lord Wavell had a plan in his mind and was eager to invite key leaders to a summit, but he was waiting for something to come out of Gandhi-Jinnah meetings rescheduled on 9 September.
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"West End Girls" has been generally well received by music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic in a review of the album Please called the song "hypnotic", adding that "it's not only a classic dance single, it's a classic pop single". In a review for the group's second studio album Actually, Rob Hoerburger from Rolling Stone magazine commented that "West End Girls" was "as catchy as anything on the radio in 1986", praising "its enticing bass line and foreboding synth riffs", but felt that it was almost "nullified by peevish spoken asides and the cryptic posturing of the duo's lyrics". In a review of the live album Concrete, Michael Hubbard from musicOMH said that "West End Girls" was one of the songs that "round out a collection that never feels too long or superfluous", adding that it "goes some way to installing Tennant and Lowe as national treasures".
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Kemp is a unique surname in the parishes of Mauchline and Stair at the time of Burns, suggesting that the family were not local in origin. Old Kemp's daughter is described as having been a trim trig lass, one of the leading belles of the district and it is recorded that Burns had an e'e to Kate. Kate lived with her elderly and disabled father who had a slight paralysis and on the recorded occasion of one evening visit by Robert Burns and James Andrew she was not at home because she was out in the fields looking for a cow that had wandered resulting in her competing admirers having, as it turned out, productive time on their hands whilst awaiting her return. Wilson records from a 'correspondent' who recalled the words of James Andrew, miller of Barskimming Mill, that Kate's father was ".. not originally possessed of the best of tempers, was rendered peevish and querulous by disease and in consequence of slight paralysis, generally supported himself on two sticks".
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In response to the facetious rhetorical argument that the abolition of Christianity would lead to the abolition of all religion, and with it such "grievous prejudices of education" as virtue, honour, conscience and justice, Swift argues that such concepts had already been banished from contemporary education, and that this argument was, therefore, moot. Answering the argument that the abolition of the gospel would benefit the vulgar, and that religion was put in force to keep the "lower part of the world in awe by fear of invisible powers," Swift points out that the vast majority of people were already unbelievers who only employed religion to quiet "peevish" children and provide topics for amusing discussion. Swift addresses the argument that abolishing Christianity will contribute to the uniting of a people divided by various sects of by arguing that humanity has an inborn "spirit of opposition" such that if Christianity were not extant to provide a context for such natural oppositions among men, this natural tendency would instead be spent in contravention of the laws and disturbance of the public peace. Finally, Swift points out potential negative consequences to the abolition of Christianity.
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