Collins says the congressional Democrats are acting — Like petulant children, saying, we didn't get our way, when we didn't ask the right way — — like petulant children.
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So on one level, Trump's petulant tweets about the need for the FBI and DOJ to listen to public outcry and start going after "Crooked Hillary" are just that: petulant.
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This is what it means to be presidential, not petulant.
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Instead he got a powdered coquette and a petulant dog.
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Like a petulant child many market pundits expect immediate gratification.
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He was treated like a petulant prince as a child.
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Forget the petulant government arguing with Brussels about budget deficits.
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And if we're not Betty, we're Veronica: petulant, vain, and sexual.
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"[Trump] is a disgrace, a liar, a petulant child," she added.
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When rebuffed, Joffrey was quick to turn petulant, not unlike Trump.
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"I take some comfort in President Trump's petulant nature," Ablin said.
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" Chris Christie protested that Obama was behaving like a "petulant child.
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If we now have a petulant, spoiled child as president, much
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Mr. Corbyn himself came across as a shambolic and petulant grouch.
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She can be petulant about what she sees as her abandonment.
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One Trump was petulant and surly, the other charming and warm.
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For Mayor Bill de Blasio, it's looking like: the petulant whine.
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To leave when you are getting what you want is petulant.
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A petulant dissent from Justice Samuel Alito called the majority's view "puzzling".
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President Trump is usually depicted as the petulant child in these exchanges.
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I remember him, he was everything you thought he'd be—petulant, temperamental.
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He acts like both an authoritarian bully and a petulant child. pic.twitter.
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Trump may be a vain and petulant teenager, with some unfortunate impulses.
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Thor was a jerk — an all around power hungry, petulant, mean guy.
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And sure, they're all displaying petulant and pathetic assertions of white privilege.
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"He's engaging in petulant punditry instead of unifying the country," said Brzezinski.
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Bad Doug is petulant, but his real trouble is that he's dim.
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"Spoken like a petulant ten year old," Mr. Cohen wrote on Twitter.
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He used a favorite character to illustrate his point: the petulant barista.
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He's dominating the discussion and has a petulant Trump on his back foot.
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For most of the encounter Mr Kaine was seen as petulant, even impolite.
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He compared the president to "a petulant child" and made him a promise.
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He can be petulant, rude, puerile, spoilt, controlling, tyrannical, obsessive, unfeeling, even cruel.
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Now he comes off like a petulant asshole, and Rodriguez the sympathetic victim.
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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump, petulant and impetuous, never lets a slight go unanswered.
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The boys' petulant mother becomes that forbidding Queen (the brilliant soprano Albina Shagimuratova).
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Or is this a petulant man who has a preternatural gift for trolling?
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He's mispronounced several words: StatuTe instead of statue, peNtupant instead of petulant, etc.
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" The Scottish writer Tobias Smollett denounced them as "ignorant, petulant, rash and profligate.
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Such conditions create fertile grounds for stagnation, frustration, petulant behavior and match fixing.
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"You didn't tell me there were two," she says, like a petulant teenager.
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The internet, in its petulant and infantile glory, is slowly moving toward that ideal.
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Trump spent the rest of the week oscillating between being petulant and oddly muted.
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It's not because Norman is weird, but because Cunanan is such a petulant child.
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We are bitter, petulant shells of our former selves floating aimlessly through the Perryverse.
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In Margaret, a petulant, beleaguered mournfulness pushed Lonergan's emotional experiment to its furthest extreme.
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For the Left to whine about this is as unjustified as it is petulant.
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Ali was petulant afterward and tried to rationalize why he had called Frazier ignorant.
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Mr. Andrade's Mario is an articulate, at times petulant intellectual inclined to quote Plutarch.
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People have already factored into their voting equation the president's boorish and petulant behavior.
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Atop it, G-Eazy is fabulously filthy and Yung Miami is petulant and raw.
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But for this petulant group, another midlife crisis is always lurking around the corner.
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Again and again, there was the petulant ring of Trump's demagoguery—us versus them.
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He speaks quietly, although his mouth often twists into an expression of petulant smugness.
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Then there was Suárez, who appeared petulant, threatening, opportunistic, petulant (again) and lethal throughout the match — all while somehow avoiding a red card of his own — before scoring both of his team's goals as Barcelona beat Atlético, 03-1, at Camp Nou.
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John's petulant attitude becomes even more apparent when his relationship with Debra begins to crumble.
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However, he likely may have alienated some with his boorish, petulant behavior on full display.
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Here&aposs my prediction tonight: Kim Jong Un, well, he&aposs being a little petulant.
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Were they hardened sociopathic criminals, or were they petulant teenagers warring over some silly story?
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He's as petulant and vicious as ever—he's just moved out of his mom's basement.
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It has also, however, brought out a streak of petulant self-righteousness among some supporters.
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When questions about the extent of her role are raised, Mr. de Blasio turns petulant.
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In Peru, this event was widely perceived as the petulant betrayal of a sore loser.
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You want rich people being petulant but also underneath it all to be truly suffering?
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Day by day, hour by hour, my Instagram feed became more manic, nasty and petulant.
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The Supreme Court and a petulant man-child who might quicken the Apocalypse, I know.
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We didn't want to come off as petulant and actually desperate to win an award.
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Florence Pugh plays Amy, the youngest sister whom many consider to be spoiled and petulant.
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It comes off like a petulant nod to Les Savy Fav: shouty, affirmative and brainy.
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Their story will be told and retold, as will Trump's dishonorable, petulant, and slanderous response.
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At the center was a less saintly Trudeau: petulant, impatient and later, embarrassed and "unreservedly" apologetic.
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They're petulant children who feel they deserve the vast, dangerous power that's been handed to them.
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Here, Anne is a petulant, confused woman whose emotional maturity seemed to stall around age ten.
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What makes the base implacably petulant is the fact that these illegitimate politicians keep winning elections.
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This lawsuit is a petulant and meritless response to our patent, trademark and trade secret claims.
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His vile character is every bit the petulant rich kid bully cliché we've come to loath.
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In their younger iterations, they are as much petulant teens as they are cold-blooded murderers.
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Marriage allows you to be completely infantile, petulant, express anger … express love, express insecurity and vulnerability.
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And now, like a petulant child, the administration wants someone else to clean up its mess.
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Smallness oozed from his petulant pout; it was all that would fit between those pursed lips.
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It's obvious that we're watching petulant boys having a pissing contest while spending other people's money.
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But he also comes across increasingly like rap's petulant child king rather than its actual ruler.
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She called him "Donald" until he called her "Hillary" — going after her, petulant and red-faced.
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Ubu is a petulant, overgrown child craving attention and satisfaction of his appetites at any cost.
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The image Woodward casts of Trump is of a petulant child, deeply insecure about, well, everything.
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Once carried out with minor hitches, these warriors lose interest and regress into whiny, petulant children.
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No longer the courageous and even visionary pioneer, he is redrawn as petulant, naive and impulsive.
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Federal workers forced to visit pawn shops because of a petulant, wealthy president are pretty sympathetic.
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Susan Rice is the ambassador to the United Nations who is as petulant as she is incompetent.
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I wasn't winning Dolphin Derby and, because I am a petulant child, Dolphin Derby was not fun.
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He is rapping the same verses, screaming the same petulant lyrics he was all those years ago.
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From the more objective vantage point, those same qualities took on an opposite shade: aloof, haughty, petulant.
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Her dismissal from the Met was arguably justified by well-reported instances of disruptive and petulant behavior.
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But I have to say I think he'd be a petulant witness, never directly answering any questions.
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"Trump is a petulant, dangerously unbalanced reality star who will coddle tyrants and alienate allies," Elmets said.
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"Like a petulant child, Amazon insists on getting its way or takes its ball and leaves," state Sen.
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Mr. Daftsios's often petulant Paul appears to be one of those boyish men who never really grew up.
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It's clear that Congress didn't care about the mission if they were willing to act like petulant children.
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Ted Cruz gave some fine answers, as on health care reform, but came across as petulant and snarky.
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Unfortunately, Rubio at times came across as petulant and desperate, like a Chihuahua nipping at a German shepherd.
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Mexico, to name a pressing example, has been petty and petulant, but also remarkable in its continued focus
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Many of our elders spend barrels of ink complaining about my allegedly petulant, self-righteous, self-consumed generation.
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By the semifinals, even the perpetually petulant Cousins put his hand over his mouth and simply stalked away.
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On and off the court, her attitude emerged as an issue; she sometimes came across as downright petulant.
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"Money in the Grave" is Drake at his moody, petulant peak — a morbid anthem for a hot summer.
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But with the support of thousands of Iowa caucus-goers behind him, Cruz sounded commanding rather than petulant.
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She imagined him as a petulant child and looked past him, keeping her eyes on the view ahead.
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He often looks, on the court, like a force of pure chaos: a wild, petulant, fire-breathing hothead.
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Other times he seems powerless — he's petulant and nervous when the smarmy bureaucrat Zuno hasn't called him back.
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The facts are there, but the tone is petulant, arrogant, defiant, defensive — in short, perpetuating the cycle of outrage.
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Who among us doesn't derive a little twisted entertainment from watching petulant teens bully their parents over a party?
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For Ivor he mustered a voice not so different from that of his best-loved creation: antic, petulant, silly.
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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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The latter is what this petulant President has said he will do so long as anyone dares question him.
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He is a petulant, spoiled, narcissistic businessman who always had his way and always needs to have his way.
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A glut of biographical material has suggested that he was a petulant egomaniac who treated personal relationships like experiments.
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The incident played into criticism from ESPN executives that Mr. Simmons can be petulant and disrespectful of rival colleagues.
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The conflict erupted in a petulant exchange, with Mr. Gonen furiously, and futilely, trying to attract the mayor's attention.
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It's not just that he has transformed the United States from a respected world leader into a petulant provocateur.
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Or why so many G.O.P. leaders twisted and turned after his petulant, gratuitous attack on a Mexican-American judge.
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They are joined along the way by Gamora's petulant sister Nebula, space pirate Yondu and Mantis, an empathic alien.
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They're mad because Trump is president, he keeps being president despite being a petulant, corrupt child, and that's infuriating.
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At first, the two are petulant and violently at odds, but they soon discover they have everything in common.
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Autumn's stepfather, by contrast, is infantile and aggressively petulant, and seems eager to run her down at every opportunity.
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To some, Mr. Odinga's plan was petulant political theater, and Western diplomats encouraged Mr. Kenyatta's government to ignore it.
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It's absurd and insulting, and it serves to depict Mercury himself — a legendary creative genius — as infantile and petulant.
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And our petulant president on Wednesday sneered at the Republicans who refused to embrace his dark vision and lost.
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Whether it was posturing or a petulant slap is hard to say, though Tuesday's unceremonious adieu suggests the latter.
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Mr. Mélenchon's critics say his obstinacy is petulant, wounded pride that can only help Ms. Le Pen's National Front.
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Despite really knowing a good proportion of the rest, I felt a little petulant, to be honest, upon finishing.
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Legendary journalist Bob Woodward's forthcoming book about the Trump White House portrays President Donald Trump as a petulant hothead.
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Instead, it makes him look like a petulant, inept fool who lacks the strength of character to take responsibility.
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He let his charisma and leadership drain away, to be replaced by a soup of the sour and the petulant.
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He looked like a petulant, red-faced cartoon, exactly what Democrats and #NeverTrump supporters have said he was all along.
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That's not a joke, it's just a failed attempt at being "edgy" that reveals Kjellberg to be a petulant doofus.
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Now that I have vented that out like a petulant child, I read a story that really got me thinking.
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Sand initially comes off as petulant but menacing, an at-least plausible target for the affection of his fawning acolytes.
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If we now have a petulant, spoiled child as president, much of the blame rests here in New York City.
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In rehearsals, he said, he saw unhappy faces, as well as petulant gestures like hands on hips and crossed arms.
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This interpretation depicts decertification as a "legal placebo" – a harmless, if ineffectual, way to make a petulant president feel better.
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"No, I don't want to go for a beer to talk about it," I said, which was petulant and true.
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His attitude and demeanor are boorish and petulant; like a whining child, he keeps repeating the same tired old slogans.
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Sometimes that came off as witty and sometimes petulant and sometimes even mean, but it never came off as silent.
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Yet there I was, rank amateur, behaving outside logic and propriety, petulant and moody in a match with no stakes.
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Wu can render a petulant scowl hilarious by allowing it to linger on her face past the point of excess.
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Klee pictured the Europeans of 1939 in a manner not unlike the Americans of 2019: petulant, belligerent, strung out, sleepwalking.
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By all means master the art of being pugnacious in argument — but as a pugnacious dialogian, not a petulant didact.
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He's a kind of petulant careerist who's obsessed with making sure his photo hangs on Baby Co.'s wall of greats.
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Advocating for more "realism" from video games is petulant and meaningless: These are creative works, licensed to use flourishes and metaphor.
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It's fun to watch women who've worked for their power and money get to behave in silly, petulant ways with it.
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" It implied that he was "petulant," said he was "grudging," and got David Gergen to call him a "grumpy old man.
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"Like a petulant child, Amazon insists on getting its way or takes its ball and leaves," Gianaris said in a statement.
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But he could be petulant when Rose was at home, too, accusing her of "loafing" when she was convalescing from bronchitis.
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Cruz came off as petulant rather than presidential as he complained about debate moderators, with Fox's Chris Wallace scolding his response.
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It's pithier than ponderous phrases like "taking offense" (which sounds petulant) or "taking umbrage" (which sounds British, parliamentary, possibly weather-related).
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"And he's grown up just as petulant and irrational as he was when he was thirteen in the books," Martin said.
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"This lawsuit is a petulant and meritless response to our patent, trademark and trade secret claims," Match said in a statement.
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What he wasn't expecting, and what no doubt outraged our petulant King Joffrey, is to be called out by soulmate Selena Gomez.
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This, along with a liking for authoritarianism, is why 35% of the country sticks with the petulant boy emperor no matter what.
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A month before, Ms. Pelosi called Mr. Trump "petulant" after he stormed out of a White House meeting about the government shutdown.
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Magro played the part of the cheating, immature, and truly cruel cast member — acting like a petulant child and throwing temper tantrums.
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The petulant pant suit is teaming up with Steven Spielberg, whoever that is, to produce a documentary on the woman suffrage movement.
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Cho, also known as Emily Cho, is the second daughter of the Korean Air chairman to infuriate the public with petulant behavior.
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It was unhinged, even for Trump—a petulant and socially corrosive display that invoked the most frightening mass movements in human history.
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Mr McAuliffe has responded much as President Barack Obama has to a petulant Republican Congress—by carrying out policy via executive fiat.
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"Like a petulant child, Amazon insists on getting its way or takes its ball and leaves," Gianaris told The New York Times.
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Haden Church, on the other hand, plays Robert as a violent cartoon, a cocksure contractor whose fragile masculinity explodes into petulant retaliation.
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"Like a petulant child, Amazon insists on getting its way or takes its ball and leaves," Gianaris told The New York Times.
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Footloose, then, wouldn't give a second thought to something like, say, the punching of Richard Spencer—the petulant prince of white supremacists.
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While a few sympathetic characters emerge, for the most part members of the royal family appear variously insane, opportunistic, petulant and mercurial.
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White House officials said Mr. Trump released the photo to expose Ms. Pelosi as petulant and unwilling to have a calm discussion.
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I have no idea what will do the trick so I'm constantly tossing away books after 20 pages like a petulant child.
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She&aposs constantly vilified for her efforts, painted as a petulant child by the media and world leaders four times her age.
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At almost every moment of the day I am accompanied by a pair of petulant, melodramatic children in my mind's back seat.
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They apparently didn't show much gratitude for this compensation; the editors complained of missed deadlines, petulant behavior, lazy mistakes, and outright bias.
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One is, notwithstanding his weaknesses, a spiritual leader of extraordinary maturity; the other, his strengths aside, is a thin-skinned, petulant narcissist.
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Like a petulant and implacable child still stewing over a toy he was forced to share, Trump has put all reason aside.
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Listen: "Money in the Grave" is Drake at his moody, petulant peak — a morbid anthem for a hot summer, our critic writes.
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Sure, he is petulant, foul-mouthed, perpetually insulting, unwilling to learn or to change his decades-old concepts on trade and international alliances.
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Her face remains petulant and unrepentant as she sings about keeping her freedom in a shift as the pyres burn under her feet.
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Ms Steer is utterly convincing as the spiky, petulant Tassi, arrogantly navigating a court which puts Artemisia on trial as much as him.
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But can their bromance survive interference from a stoner quarterback (Wyatt Russell), a fetching coed (Amber Stevens) and her petulant roomie (Jillian Bell)?
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Unfortunately Ms. Englert's Marina seems more petulant and prissy than so radiantly pure of heart that her words could turn sinners instantly repentant.
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Kavanaugh's testimony was petulant and angry, a stark contrast to that of Dr. Ford who was apologetic and even attempted moments of levity.
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One could almost imagine Mole Man complaining about being "friend-zoned" in this issue, such is his petulant expectations of love and romance.
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Anger can be a double-edged sword — and it's unclear whether Trump has come off as righteously furious or petulant in recent days.
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Chris Christie to call Obama "a petulant child" and promise "to kick (his) rear end out of the White House come this fall"?
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After spending the night visiting an injured teammate at the hospital, Dockery suddenly dumps his petulant attitude and sees the benefits of teamwork.
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Lulu is herself abjectly in love with her pimp, Dédé, a petulant, pomaded twerp played by Georges Flamant, thus completing a sadomasochistic triangle.
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So was anything more sour, more inappropriate, or more ironic than Cristiano Ronaldo's petulant remarks after his team's goalless group game against Iceland?
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And he was petulant and petty with his tweet after a "Saturday Night Live" skit had him asking Siri about the Islamic State.
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It might strike some as just another insult for a petulant urchin of a man who insults everyone with whom he takes issue.
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The appearance of Leo's petulant ex-wife, Rita (Laura Linney), when he is briefly hospitalized after falling from a cab, seems more plausible.
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I reread the book recently to my kids, and I was dumbfounded by how self-centered, petulant and cruel that little rodent is.
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Any diplomatic breakthrough with Tehran — as unlikely as it may be — would dwarf in significance the stumbling negotiations with manipulative and petulant Pyongyang.
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McCain responded she wouldn't talk for the rest of the show — an obviously petulant and childish response to grown women having a disagreement.
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Amazon, meanwhile, looks "like a petulant child": an entitled rich kid who, confronted by a worthy opponent, opted to pack up and jet home.
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It conceives of the borrower not as the bearer of the future of the country, but a customer, and a petulant one at that.
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Trump himself looks like a comically petulant child, and John Bolton, the National Security Advisor, appears to be nervous, staunchly standing by the president.
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It's like watching a petulant boy meets a power-hungry man try to preserve what he believes he owns outright, and at whatever cost.
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With plenty of excess punctuation and phrases like "so unfair," Trump's tweets seem more like the work of a petulant teen than a president.
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He seemed like a defensive, petulant bully who could only insult Hillary Clinton and America -- and couldn't offer a single solution, let alone details.
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He should look to borrow some of the prime minister's policy and political skills, too, particularly her skill at confronting adversaries without being petulant.
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Set free from the self's anxieties and appetites and constant, petulant demands, the meditator can see and share the actualities of existence with others.
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She, like her conductor, approached the piece thoughtfully and unsensationally: Now over 50, she was more womanly than girlish, more tenderly longing than petulant.
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As the husband and wife try to repair their relationship, he often seems petulant and repulsively indistinct while the wife becomes ever more complicated.
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And although, right now, I'd take Warren in a hot minute over a petulant President Trump, who goes off the rails at 2 a.m.
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Like petulant children or President-Elect Trump, anti-abortionists love nothing better than to pose as lonely paragons of free speech and moral virtue.
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Plenty of Republicans are happy to see the excellent, critical coverage the paper has offered of Trump and are appalled by Trump's petulant reaction.
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Harden is a complicated figure in his own right, as his petulant princehood in Houston has shown, but he is at least still unpredictable.
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Instead of leadership in the face of a direct threat to the manner in which this republic is governed, we get more petulant tweets.
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This is how he chose to act in the spotlight of the whole world — petulant and whiny — and this is how history will remember him.
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All this growth was undermined by a prequel trilogy that depicted Anakin Skywalker as a whiny, petulant youth who didn't care too much for sand.
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Bannon was reportedly one of the main sources Wolff's scathing portrait of a highly-dysfunctional administration under the sloppy sway of a petulant, septuagenarian baby.
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Our soldiers and sailors and Marines and airmen are not toys to be played with by a petulant, entitled child who could never imagine serving.
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Renegade delegates forced a floor fight in an effort to embarrass him, and his top aide called Ohio's governor "petulant" for not endorsing Mr. Trump.
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It's been a petulant few weeks for Ronaldo, with his rant about Iceland's "small mentality" after their 1-1 draw with Portugal drawing widespread ridicule.
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The bitcoin protocol, when it was released by an anonymous person or group called Satoshi Nakamoto nearly a decade ago, was anti-establishment and petulant.
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Listen: The new track "Money in the Grave" is Drake at his moody, petulant peak — a morbid anthem for a hot summer, writes our critic.
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The real story is growing Chinese strength, steady Chinese purpose aimed at midcentury dominance and erratic American outbursts suggestive of a petulant great power's retreat.
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On their lips, that word can sound like a caress — or like a petulant appeal from a toddler whose tantrums should have subsided long ago.
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"It wasn't even a high-stakes negotiation; it was a petulant president of the United States," Ms. Pelosi said as she returned to the Capitol.
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"Like a petulant child, Amazon insists on getting its way or takes its ball and leaves," said Mr. Gianaris, whose district includes Long Island City.
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In the early 2015s, anorexia had been seen by the medical community as a deliberate decision by a petulant teenage girl: she was selfish, vain, willful.
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It would certainly be seen as a massive, petulant self-own if he doesn't — a black mark at the end of an otherwise remarkable climate legacy.
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Kaushal is equally good – at once petulant, childlike and suddenly cheerful, bringing a vulnerability to Vicky that saves him from being the villain of the piece.
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Gordon tells Batman, "It's good to see you playing well with others again," as if Batman were a petulant pre-schooler coming off a time-out.
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Perhaps that's because his approach is a feckless, petulant response to the fact that Congress, elected by the American people, does not agree with his tactics.
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The first quarter has concluded, and Uber has come under intense fire in the public realm for a broken culture, petulant leadership and an executive exodus.
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The very next day, the President lashed out at Stephen Curry, star player for the NBA championship team the Golden State Warriors, with a petulant tweet.
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It seems wrong to call a bombing campaign that has so far involved over 2120,2200 air strikes petulant, but that it is how it often seems.
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He was never as popular a speaker as his wife, and would get petulant when she had been away for what he felt was too long.
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"I'd rather be raped than bored," announces a mock-petulant Pamela in a seemingly idle remark that is returned to later without properly detonating either time.
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The most tangible character in the book, according to our reviewer, is Nao, whose voice is "by turns breezy, petulant, funny, sad and teenage-girl wise."
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Dave told his petulant colleague: Didn't you know enough to get off at Route 46 and take the local road through Fort Lee to the bridge?
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The love he professes for his family expresses itself as a furious desire for control and a petulant sense of grievance when his will is thwarted.
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We come to the show for steamy adult melodrama, but we stay for the sheer spectacle of grown-ups acting, over and over, like petulant children.
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Trump is less the strict father than the petulant child: a boyish figure who rejects advice, shirks discipline and refuses to be beholden to behavioral norms.
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I could get very defensive of her as a character, when certain directors would come in and say she was being so petulant, like a teenager.
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Of course, adults may wonder why Mr. Curry doesn't simply evict the bear after the first domestic mishap, but this petulant man is pretty clueless, too.
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" Gouzer's boss, Brett Gorvy, the international head of contemporary art at Christie's, told me, "Loïc has a tendency to be emotional and petulant, like a child.
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"He's doing all this stuff as his legacy," said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, comparing Mr. Obama to a petulant god in a Wagner opera.
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His petulant masculinity trumps around in a glum moodiness that predates the sad boi glamour of Take Care-era Drake and basically everything by The Weeknd.
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Or when she gains a modicum of success and he becomes jealous and petulant, smearing frosting on her face when she calls him out on it.
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Mad Men always knew who world-weary Don Draper was, who petulant prepster Pete Campbell wanted to emulate, who cavalier heir Roger Sterling was thrilled to be.
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The exception to the rule is Donald Trump, whose petulant, self-centered response to McCain's death says a lot about the president and the movement he leads.
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There's a petulant species of brainy monkeys apes that just can't seem to get along that probably deserves to be completely wiped out in a fiery collision.
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With the Roku Ultra, you also get a wider selection of streaming options and a remote that won't send you into a petulant frenzy after five minutes.
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At a frosty joint press conference Mr Trump carped about German trade negotiators before sending the chancellor packing with a couple of petulant tweets about defence spending.
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Sally Kohn: One candidate was presidential The third and final debate was a microcosm of this entire election: Hillary Clinton was presidential and Donald Trump was petulant.
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Between the comments about Mexicans, mocking the disabled and his petulant comeback tweets, he's become precisely the kind of vortex celebrities shouldn't want to get sucked into.
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When Sophia visits him in L.A. after a long stint apart, Shane's bound to the whims and whimsies of the band's petulant frontman, much to Sophia's disappointment.
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When a petulant Patrick Wilson, as King Orm, barks about becoming an "Ocean Master," you don't need to know what that means to laugh at the ridiculousness.
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Why interact with your petulant uncle in real life when you can interact with an idealised, and much more fun, version of him in the digital world?
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Trump responded with two petulant tweets attacking Jones and the union: Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers.
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And in the meantime, North Korea will threaten to walk away, thus painting the United States as the petulant party not interested in genuine peace and reconciliation.
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The bickering and feistiness, which has been a Donald Trump call-sign, has begun to weary voters — especially when a petulant Tim Kaine tries to mimic it.
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" He pauses, overwhelmed by the force of his own emotions like an infant coming off of a tantrum, and adds, slightly petulant, "It's not about the pasta.
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Update: A Match Group spokesperson sent Recode the following statement on Thursday: This lawsuit is a petulant and meritless response to our patent and trade secret claims.
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Even his close aides, as my colleague Yochi Dreazen has pointed out, have been leaking material painting him as a petulant toddler with a short attention span.
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The cartoonish approach helped solve the problem of the first act, in which neither the petulant, grating Siegfried nor his oleaginous, sinister guardian Mime are particularly sympathetic.
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Petulant, self-absorbed and terrified of no longer being useful, Mr. Lithgow's very funny, pathetic Bill is, in many ways, a thoroughly typical husband of his generation.
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But Canada-Russia '22 paints everyone from Alan Eagleson to Harry Sinden to Phil Esposito as petulant and crude in their pursuit of beating the surprising Soviets.
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The first is the idea of the president as a petulant child — a person who grew up getting everything he wanted and continued that experience through adulthood.
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Mr. George would go on to receive accolades from restaurant and architecture reviewers for his interior designs, but in Moscow, he encountered perhaps his most petulant critic.
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Most of all, those young potential FSOs struggle to be inspired by an America that has grown more isolated and petulant under three years of New Isolationism.
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But this weekend, from Hanoi, Vietnam, Trump took to his favorite platform — Twitter — to return to some familiar, petulant themes: defending Russia and insulting North Korea's leader.
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Known for her fierce temper and hostility towards the West, she was described in one 2001 U.S. diplomatic cable on WikiLeaks as a "truculent and petulant foreign minister".
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Known for her fierce temper and hostility toward the West, she was described in one 2001 U.S. diplomatic cable on WikiLeaks as a "truculent and petulant foreign minister".
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The outrage: While many are applauding the mayor's move, others have called it "petulant" and accused him of rudely snubbing the head of a billion-dollar business partner.
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"If Trump hadn't acted like a petulant 5-year-old and tweeted about Nehlen then there is no story here," said GOP operative Brandon Scholtz, a Walker ally.
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As President Trump incurs the ire of commentators, liberal Democrats are held to a different standard – a far lower standard, which permits them to act as petulant children.
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It just makes you behave like an irritable and petulant toddler until someone else recognizes the tell-tale signs of hanger and shoves a donut in your face.
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In a fight with the legislature over budget cuts, his administration closed highway rest stops, saying the money was needed for human services; Republicans viewed it as petulant.
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" The article includes an image from Jaden Smith's Facebook page of the musician looking petulant in a skirt, alongside the caption "My mood when they try to hate.
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Last year, some of Trump's most ardent advocates suggested that he was a different man in private—not the raging, petulant bigot witnessed at rallies and on Twitter.
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Yuudai is petulant and clueless and would be a nightmare to be around, but the rest of the cast rallied around how awful he was, which was fun.
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What emerges is the portrait of a leader who is vain, impatient and at times petulant, but also wise and thoughtful, a complicated man for a complicated time.
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Everybody wants something from her — her daughters are frequently petulant and demanding, and her British mother Phyllis (Celia Imrie), who lives across the street, has no real boundaries.
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Jane Seymour, his third wife, as pliant as Anne Boleyn was petulant, at last produces the male heir that Anne, and Katherine of Aragon before her, did not.
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Especially when the petulant President throws a tantrum in the Rose Garden and threatens Congress: Either you stop investigating me or forget about our plan to fix America's infrastructure.
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Iron Fist himself sticks out like a sore thumb in The Defenders, petulant and self-important but inexplicably the hill upon which they are expected to fight and die.
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Ever since it was fashioned by Britain after the first world war, Jordan has served as a pro-Western outpost and a buffer keeping its petulant neighbours at bay.
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In a somewhat petulant dissenting opinion, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that "[w]hat the police did in this case was entirely reasonable" while "[t]he court's decision is not".
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READ: 5 takeaways from the Republican debate For his part, Trump showed no signs of the thin-skinned, petulant reality show star we've become accustomed to throughout this campaign.
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They're still, at times, petulant and irresponsible and unpredictable, but they're making real efforts toward maturity, like a group of kids stumbling around in shoes two sizes too big.
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I'm told this gag began before I was old enough to understand what was going on, and it endured until my cousins and I entered our petulant teenage years.
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Not only is Williams depicted as a petulant toddler for having spoken up about what she felt was a sexist call, but also as a hulking, animal-like brute.
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Meanwhile, her post-debate response, in which she referred to herself a "top-tier candidate" and Gabbard a "zero or 1 percent" longshot, made her look petulant and entitled.
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As for those who see Mr. Trump as behaving like a petulant toddler, he doesn't have to face their electoral judgment for another two years, an eternity in politics.
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Will Swenson, a Tony nominee for "Hair" and currently starring in "Waitress," plays the petulant dark lord — who, in Act I, is actually Jonathan, Jerry's overeager warm-up guy.
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His contempt of scrutiny is plain to see: He was irked and petulant when challenged over budget cuts, the waste of public money on vanity projects or diplomatic gaffes.
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You know, 'obstruction of Congress' is like petulant children saying we didn't get our way when we didn't ask the right way and didn't try to make a case.
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She hoped for a chance to tell the story of her transformation, and to replace the image of the petulant, hateful teen-age Bryan with a mature, enlightened one.
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Remember in the first half of season six when Carol all but sighed and rolled her eyes like a petulant teenager every time Morgan talked about never killing anyone?
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How any referee can look at his petulant face and not want to immediately produce a red card – simply as punishment for being a dickhead – it's hard to say.
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What holds this film together is the performance by Diljit Dosanjh, who transforms himself from a petulant boy to a man who picks himself up after a life-shattering incident.
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You will probably recall his petulant rant about how outrageous it was that women wouldn't give him the time of day, when he was so "magnificent," to use his word.
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They are both also engaged in passionate extramarital affairs: Michael with Lucy (Melora Walters), a petulant ballet teacher, and Mary with Robert (Aidan Gillen), a slightly grandiose but affectionate writer.
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Appearing on SiriusXM's Jim Norton & Sam Roberts show, the comedian denied actress Alice Wetterlund's accusations that he was a "bully and petulant brat" during their time together on Silicon Valley.
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But Shannara's intrigue is exceedingly thin, and mostly consists of Amberle's grandfather, King Eventine (John Rhys-Davies), refusing to step down in favor of his petulant magic-denying son Arion.
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But some Sanders-aligned media figures are firmly in the former wing and busy venting — giving the impression online, in particular, that his entire movement is paranoid, petulant, and inflexible.
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Last week's episode was a petulant mess — blame game champ Thorgy Thor was eliminated, while Milk, the stepchild you meet after the wedding, threw a tantrum over merely being safe.
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There can be no unique and uniting voice — no Howard Beale to embody our collective angst — when we all posses the ability to rage at random like a petulant child.
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Mr. Musk's criticism of the agency appears petulant and poorly timed, given his need to have the settlement approved, but it is not the type of statement that misleads shareholders.
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"Obstruction of Congress," I've said before, is like petulant children saying we didn't get our way when we didn't ask the right way and didn't try to make a case.
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Even as President Trump, the wall's builder, insists that the world now has limits, he himself cultivates a petulant hedonism, an unchecked freedom to hate, an enraged refusal of constraint.
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By Tuesday morning, he started sending off a series of bitter, petulant tweets that made clear that he could not accept his loss and was looking for a scapegoat to kill.
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Fallon did take a shot at Trump during his Globes monologue with an in-passing joke likening the president-elect to King Joffrey, the petulant boy ruler on Game of Thrones.
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While testifying, Mr. Zuckerberg's first priority is to avoid generating a new round of negative headlines by tossing off a flippant, misguided remark, or by being goaded into a petulant state.
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It's time for this petulant movement to make a choice – the rational but problematic politician or the untested, seemingly off-the-rails real estate mogul whose army flies the Republican flag.
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There is the aforementioned Elizabeth Charlotte, too intelligent for the dumdums of Versailles, and Philippe, an ambitious hedonist in an on-again, off-again relationship with a petulant nobleman called Chevalier.
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King George's petulant breakup song came to be when Miranda, guest-starring on an episode of House, told Laurie he wanted to write a breakup song from King George to America.
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The red "Make America Great Again" ball cap she wears in "Mystery" is instantly recognizable, and her Mr. Trump is petulant, whiny, short-tempered — it's a takedown rather than an impersonation.
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Because of how unprecedented and nasty this entire affair already is, it's really hard to believe that the Obama team's U.N. moves are simply some kind of petulant slam against Trump.
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Maraea's mistress, the insulated, petulant Rebecca (Antonia Prebble), is pregnant, and seeks to induce the birth — for reasons we eventually discover — before her husband, a businessman, returns from an extended trip.
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The scene has been interpreted as an allusion to the Whitney controversy, but it conveys nothing either so pathetic as a plea for sympathy or so defensive as a petulant irony.
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Because he was a good writer, a thoughtful writer, and that scene had a reason to exist besides morbid curiosity or a petulant delight in shrugging on and off another's pain.
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He also accused Mr. Trump of acting "like a petulant child" and said the queen should not be seen as approving either his actions or his attitudes toward women and Muslims.
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It has turned us all into petulant children, hammering down doors for more lists, more relatable viral videos, more fucking 40 tweet sequences about someone doing a shit in a purse.
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If there's no golden escalator available Trump will find some other way to make the moment visually compelling, and his rhetoric will likely be more fiery than factual, more petulant than presidential.
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Instead Trump has inexplicably spent the past few days complaining about his loss of all 13 Colorado delegates to Cruz, whining about the "rigged" system, and stomping around like a petulant child.
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He is investigating the gruesome murders Ramanna has committed, but can barely focus on the job at hand, given he is either acting like a petulant five-year-old or snorting cocaine.
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I got told off like a petulant child for using the bathroom for ten minutes in the morning 'when [they] wanted it,' and for putting food in the (enormous, half-empty) fridge.
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His petulant refusal to answer questions directly, however self-serving, exposes the trial itself — its determination, in a world drenched in violent imagery, to distinguish the real from the unreal — as absurd.
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But it raises the question, if Republicans don't think it's appropriate now to burn down the federal government in a petulant temper tantrum over stupid border wall funding, is it appropriate ever?
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His God is by turns comically admonishing, affectionate and just occasionally petulant, as who would not be when his carefully laid plans have resulted in, well, the world in its endless imperfection.
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They were too petulant to woo the public en masse unlike Linkin Park or Nickelback, and they were too rudimentary to be hailed as objective masters of music unlike Slipknot or Deftones.
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It's a brief but sad moment, one that reveals how consumer abundance, or the illusion of it, has made Andrew so petulant, childish and self-indulgent that he despises his own mother.
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My audience, by the way, was especially tickled by the satirical portrait of the show's one major British character, King George III, embodied with Hogarthian nastiness by a divinely petulant Michael Jibson.
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If we do punish him, which we must, Prince Mohammed, petulant and proud, is equally likely to behave more irresponsibly to demonstrate his independence and exact retribution against his erstwhile Western partners.
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Having taken a few prisoners, he lets them go, saying, "I did not start this war"—speaking not with a petulant snap but in the slow and measured tones of grim regret.
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Unlike the petulant Gavin, Richard charges into the room and explains the platform to the assembled focus group, finally breaking through to a woman named Bernice, which he counts as a victory.
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But though Still's letters to male critics were petulant and delusional, at least he used his words, as kindergarten teachers implore angry kids to do, instead of bullying them with rubber underpants.
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Hitchcock, according to the memoir, would talk to Hedren about getting erections, ask her to "touch him," and would become "petulant" and angry when he'd see her speaking to other men on set.
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Judge Edward Cowart, who was presiding over the trial, toured Bundy's cell and ordered he be moved to a different one after a petulant Bundy complained of not having enough light to read.
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But he didn't look to have put pressure on Neymar's leg, and the player's delayed and exaggerated response was the subject of heated debate, especially coming after similarly petulant displays in earlier matches.
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So here's something worth pondering in the midst of the Kobe elegies that will no doubt be written over the next few months: Is it "selfish" and "petulant" when you prove yourself right?
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LONDON (Reuters) - There is only one way to treat petulant players, such as Australia's Bernard Tomic, who call for a medical time out to treat a fake injury — expose them to public humiliation.
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We are known as petulant whiners, who scream into the Reddit abyss every time the showrunners deviate too liberally from the source material, George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
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The tomboyish Lee and the sometimes petulant Persons, who was sent away by his parents to spend his summers in Monroeville, became close friends and would spend hours reading and making up stories.
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I think Anne is such a tragic enigma of a figure — strong and weak, a mess and a queen, petulant and affectionate and regal and gross — that I couldn't stop thinking about her.
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And yet here we have the actual 2016 presidential election, with — especially on the Republican side — petulant candidates making childish dick jokes and prioritizing personal attacks and meanness over policy debates and vision.
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Whatever is going on here, it certainly appears that the legend of goatse—the cavernous shitpipe that introduced millions of innocents to the petulant exhilaration and repulsion of Online—is far from over.
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" The ever-petulant Mr. Trump then tweet-threatened not only Canada but his own Congress: "If we don't make a fair deal for the U.S. after decades of abuse, Canada will be out.
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Over the course of the season, Spock went from petulant to showing a warmth for Burnham, exhibiting a range that felt to me out of character for the Spock we've come to know.
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Surrounded by God-awful family and friends who act as if Cathy's only duty is to wait on them, she never ceases to rise above their petulant behavior and put on a smile.
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I could forbid Noah to go, but he was leaving for college in six months – time I didn't care to spend with a petulant teenager stomping around telling me I'd ruined his life.
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The campaign, thanks to Trump, has involved a kind of magical mystery tour of all that is base, vile, vulgar, repugnant, primal, violent, bullying, petulant, hateful, dishonest, superficial and lazy in human nature.
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Others speculated that Mr. Bharara, once accused in a court filing of being a "petulant rooster," might be making provocative statements to test the waters for a run for governor of New York.
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Tilda and Petula (whose name is pronounced by all the characters as if they're going to say "petulant") plan to play along until they can find the safe and abscond with its cash.
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He could have gone the Liam Payne route of singing, "I used to be in 1D (now I'm free)," but showcasing his impressive musical knowledge proves far more effective and much less petulant.
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All that should have provided delicious fodder for the screenwriting team, led by Justin Theroux, who also reprises his role from the earlier film as an evil henchman to Will Ferrell's petulant villain, Mugatu.
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"We are better than this as a country, and we shouldn't let one man -- one rich, petulant child -- define this country and I'm just so sad that we're in this place," Richmond told Lemon.
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Charles M. Blow As the Republican National Convention kicks off Monday, Donald Trump has a tremendous opportunity to rebrand and reboot his campaign, to make it look and feel more professional and less petulant.
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Last month, Uber founder Travis Kalanick expressed remorse for berating one of his drivers in a petulant exchange that, like tossing the United passenger from the plane, surfaced in a video that went viral.
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Jones's instincts for spinning elbows are matched only by instincts for self-destruction (and terrible driving), and it's easy to paint him as a petulant kid enabled by his pushover parents in the UFC.
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The result is that for most of the series, Yossarian just seems petulant and whiny — instead of living inside his breakdown, as you do in the book, you wait for it to finally arrive.
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" First comes Juice WRLD, the leading petulant emoter in hip-hop, his voice an exhausted peal: "Still feeling dead when I think about you/I can't do a damn thing when I'm without you.
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The production company Elara Pictures posted a disturbing video mashup to Instagram Friday: the hamburger scene from Pulp Fiction alongside a few choice moments from Brett Kavanaugh's petulant testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Unlike the petulant Jane, who dreams of rodeo stardom and chafes at their backwater life, Heidi seems at ease in this place where the soft light and bleached landscapes can flicker with inchoate menace.
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Silicon Valley actress Alice Wetterlund has accused her former co-star T.J. Miller of being "a bully and petulant brat" on the set of the show in a series of tweets posted on Wednesday night.
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Yet at a ceremony in mid-August to mark the signing of a military-spending bill named in Mr McCain's honour, she carefully followed the president's petulant lead and omitted to mention the dying senator.
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The interface looks much like that of any other local search site, with businesses rated from one to five stars and comments ranging from the practical ("very fast service") to the petulant ("dry ass herb").
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He does not see himself as representing the citizens of the United States (that's the job desc) but himself as a kind of petulant emperor who needs to be fawned over to do his job.
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In "Snow & Rose," a reimagining of the Grimms' "Snow-White and Rose-Red," the lives of two sisters — practical, considerate Rose and petulant, anxious Snow — are changed forever when their father disappears in the woods.
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Collusion had become an article of faith among those on the left and in the liberal media, a narrative breathlessly advanced by bitter Democrats and a petulant press that couldn't accept the 2016 election results.
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Now, Kyrgios looked and sounded equally petulant as he began heaping a barrage of barbs at friends and advisers near the court, as if they were to blame for his shoddy play down the stretch.
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Last month, Travis Kalanick, an Uber founder, expressed remorse for berating one of his drivers in a petulant exchange that, like tossing the United passenger from the plane, surfaced in a video that went viral.
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This is karma: I now live in a nation where a petulant president has shut down much of the most powerful government in the world — so the White House isn't even paying its water bills.
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Petulant and bullying attacks on opponents are standard for the Trump administration, but this one had a whiff of something else -- a kind of outraged condescension, the way an abusive parent might berate a misbehaving child.
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With her penchant for big government and detailed plans, Elizabeth Warren may be the only candidate willing to finally parent and discipline petulant CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg, who too easily mistake corporate power for personal liberty.
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On his full-length début, "No Mountains in Manhattan," from 2017, he sounded like the protagonist of a Harmony Korine fever dream, a tiny, petulant charmer fast-talking his way through bodega lines and subway stations.
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It's a sprawling, incisive, exasperating, hilarious, and yes, petulant look at modern life — references include news feeds, metadata, Oculus Rift and, because it rhymes, Taylor Swift — with, he stresses, a small but significant amount of hope.
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As it turns out, Mitch — a petulant man-child scientist who closed out season two by sacrificing himself to save the others — has been kept alive in a stasis tank "in eastern Siberia" for reasons yet unknown.
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New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton on Thursday blitzed presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump with a barrage of pointed and sarcastic attacks, casting him as dangerous with a petulant streak that could threaten U.S. national and global security.
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" The New York Times review on Friday said the "depiction of a petulant, blondish Caesar in a blue suit, complete with gold bathtub and a pouty Slavic wife, takes onstage Trump-trolling to a startling new level.
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" Sebestyen's Lenin is not a coolly rational mastermind but a whimsical opportunist, who promised his followers everything ("bread, peace and land"), bypassed his own dogmas as it suited him, and flew into "petulant rages over minor matters.
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This is a pernicious and self-reinforcing effect of gridlock, resulting in more partisan regulations than would have occurred if the president and Congress had stopped acting like petulant children and agreed to behave maturely and responsibly.
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Addressing reporters at a breakfast on Monday, Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's de facto campaign manager, accused Mr. Kasich of acting "petulant" for refusing to support Mr. Trump following the governor's defeat in the Republicans' presidential nominating process.
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Obviously, there are a dozen other angles of this photo to choose from, but this is the one everyone will remember: Angela Merkel standing over Donald Trump, who looks like a petulant child refusing to go potty.
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Gru and Dru bicker but find common cause when Bratt — a petulant, mulleted former 1980s TV child star — leads a giant robot of himself and an army of malevolent flying action figures on an invasion of Hollywood.
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"The bottom line is, I think people are just tired of the way this president operates, whether it be when he tweets like a petulant man-child or when he's a ruthless demagogue," Pocan said on MSNBC.
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When Martina Hingis, during a petulant performance in her loss to Steffi Graf in the 1999 French Open women's final, tried two of such serves on the brink of defeat, the Parisian crowd ran out of patience.
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So whatever your established role is — whether you're the appeaser, or the family clown, or the petulant one — you're going to be thrown right back there the second you walk through the door of your childhood home.
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Roger Cohen There are economic tensions in the United States, insufficient to explain the election of a petulant egomaniac to the highest office in the land, and there's an all-out culture war that does explain it.
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You know, obstruction of Congress, as I've said before, is like petulant children saying, 'We didn't get our way when we didn't ask the right way and we didn't try to go after and make a case.
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The theatrics surrounding his petulant threat to do so obscure a vital question for our democracy going far beyond this (non)crisis, a question to which Congress should immediately turn: Who decides what constitutes a national emergency?
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No question, Streep's emotional speech was delivered with tremendous dignity and made a very good point -- one proven by Trump's nasty reply: The man cast as the next president of the United States can be mean and petulant.
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SCN Strategies, a leading political-consulting firm in San Francisco, used to train its candidates how not to deal with the media by showing them Newsom's tantrums when challenged by television reporters: the petulant silences and huffy diatribes.
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Jonathan T. Sacks, Philadelphia It's truly mind-boggling that you would waste a single pico-liter of ink in celebrating a petulant, bratty 21-year-old tennis player who may or may not become a top-seeded player.
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But it's not just The Post — Mr. de Blasio got petulant when pressed by a reporter from Newsday for information about an inquiry into the Administration for Children's Services and the death of a 6-year-old boy.
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They are a petulant reaction to Japan's abrupt decision to remove South Korea from a list of trusted countries subject to minimal export controls and to impose extra restrictions on shipments of chemicals that are essential to chipmaking.
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Horn's stimulating body of work, begun in the late 1960s, consists of conceptually based, process-oriented, prosthetic performances, numerous films, feathery and kinetic metal sculptures, vast installations, intense, loose drawings, self-documentary performance photographs, and petulant painting machines.
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" Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat, criticized Trump's finding and said his "petulant threats will only make it less likely our allies will work with us to confront our collective challenges with China and to fix real trade problems.
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The film plays like a clash between the id and the superego: McEnroe is all wild impulse and petulant rage, while Borg has locked down all emotion in the name of reason, until he practically begins to fall apart.
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Or he may conclude that Xi Jinping, China's leader, has played him for a fool and fire off a petulant tweet, nudging the two countries' relationship back into crisis and reigniting global fears of a full-blown trade conflict.
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People laugh at Baldwin's petulant Trump, or Melissa McCarthy's manic Sean Spicer, or Matt Damon's blustering Brett Kavanaugh, but SNL doesn't attempt to present it as reality — just a warped, hyperbolic mirror image of it, as all parody is.
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"Some of our senators' petulant opposition is not in the best interest of our country and is contrary to what their constituencies want," the group's chief strategist and former Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie said in the release.
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Her enemies know what they're up against, her allies appreciate her many strengths, the press has been pre-schooled in her hunker-down style of squeezing out petulant clarifications, and her progressive critics formed their suspicions several presidents ago.
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He gets drunk and parties a lot, conducts his royal duties under protest, and generally acts like a petulant child, despite, as he is reminded by the Dowager Queen Elizabeth, having the most freedom of any consort in history.
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He showed unbelievable disrespect for President Obama by calling him "a petulant child," which is rich coming from someone whose administration stands accused of shutting down the busiest bridge in the world as part of a politically motivated vendetta.
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Engel's technical and dramatic imagination rises to a frenzied pitch in a wrenching discussion between Bea and Al, in which she voices her frustrations with him and with her own life, and he responds with petulant and juvenile indignation.
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Pelosi might yet be beatable in a future leadership vote, and her take on the Ocasio-Cortez result might've read as petulant, but the interview should dispel any suggestion, as her critics often posit, that she's somehow past it.
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It has to make you wonder why you twisted and turned and tried to justify your support of him in the face of his petulant, gratuitous attack on the Muslim parents of a soldier who died fighting for America.
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Kyrgios is notorious for his Twitter spats, and when he saw a series of caustic tweets from the British media figure Piers Morgan — calling him, among other things, a "petulant little brat" — Kyrgios couldn't let the insults go unanswered.
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"If it is broken, so am I." At 25, Sofia is a half-English, half-Greek anthropology student who works in a London cafe called the Coffee House but mostly tends to the petulant demands of her mother, Rose.
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No one is any one thing, and no one is just the petulant coach or the stupid running back or the naïve academic advisor or the lazy defensive lineman or the womanizing quarterback or street thug or backwoods redneck.
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Rockwell did look like George W. Bush, but I felt more like he'd caught the heart of the character he was playing — who both is and isn't Bush, by necessity — and spooled him out brilliantly, both petulant and boastful.
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What I loathed in him then is what appeals so much now: Eubank's rebellion against his own sport, against the money men in boxing who he felt exploited fighters, feels less like petulant arrogance and more a righteous crusade.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Britain's Olivia Colman won a surprise best actress Oscar on Sunday for her clever performance as a dim-witted, petulant Queen Anne in "The Favourite" and delighted the audience with a tearful and humorous acceptance speech.
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" Despite the amount of hard science that goes into her work, Yi tends to describe her life in psychoanalytic terms: "I think that when one has a petulant, antagonistic relationship to something, it's usually overcompensating through an insecure desire.
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Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz, a former anti-communist crusader facing criticism over delays in modernizing the army as well as conflicts with top generals, and Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski - seen as petulant and ineffective in Brussels - were also dismissed.
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How, one must ask, can those who appear before him expect considered judgment from a man who insulted senators and cried in petulant anger when he thought he might lose a position to which he so clearly felt entitled?
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Both movies take liberties with the real history of sly, petulant authoritarian leaders and the people who scramble to gain their favor, guess their whims, and jockey for position — and they manage to be bitterly funny and bleak at once.
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Another way, as displayed by Trump's turn on the Great Lakes, is to focus a bipartisan outrage campaign on a monumental national landmark in a swing state, and pray that the electoral calculus is enough to sway a petulant president.
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Sally has spent the entire season being a mopey, petulant brat, so I suppose it's fitting enough that she winds up finding happiness being as addicted to a steady stream of stranger-validation as your standard social media obsessed teenager.
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QL Score: +5 Bryan: It appears that Jesus doesn't actually have magical powers, but despite his kinda-sorta-maybe good guy actions last week, when he protected Rick from the petulant fury of the Hilltop crew, I still didn't trust him.
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He badly wants to be as arrogant as he pretends that he is, and he seems like he'll become unbearable the moment he gets even a small taste of fame, but at this point in his career, he's petulant and fearful.
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The unwise are howling at the majority of Americans who were deeply offended by Trump's comments that we're Puritans, prudes, and "Social Justice Warriors" — as if this petulant round of name-calling paired with borderline gaslighting could stop the bleeding.
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He demonstrated that in his petulant swing through Paris last November for the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, when leaders of much of Europe assembled to pay tribute to this landmark moment of cooperation to defeat tyranny.
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This was the beginning of the Image Is Everything Agassi '90s, at which point McEnroe's reputation as a petulant ref-haranguer had become a goofball cliché and his years as a pro looked numbered as he approached his 33rd birthday.
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The man who proverbially would never tell a lie sure could prevaricate, and Washington's carping about his troops, his officers and his lot in life — "I distrust everything," he grumbled in 1776 — transforms the demigod into a sometimes petulant mortal.
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Instead, he offers advice to his readers: Don't be petulant, appreciate the nobility of politics, trust experts, avoid conspiracy theorizing, don't believe candidates who promise only good news, pay attention to political debates, be sensitive to norms and not just laws.
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When he exiles his youngest, best-loved daughter, Cordelia (a sullen Ms. Wilson) because she isn't sufficiently effusive in her praise of him, it feels like a petulant, conditioned reflex, the caprice of a moment that he might later reverse.
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With a petulant tweetstorm from Air Force One, Mr. Trump all but blew up the Group of 7 nations that the United States has led for more than four decades and essentially declared open political war on America's closest neighbor.
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All around me people shrug and yawn at his latest petulant tirade, his newest baseless tweet, his freshest assertion that the numbers that the rest of us see are just optical illusions and he really did win the popular vote.
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"Its depiction of a petulant, blondish Caesar in a blue suit, complete with gold bathtub and a pouty Slavic wife, takes onstage Trump-trolling to a startling new level," Jesse Green of The New York Times wrote in his review.
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"You've got enough friends, a new one is bad for you," says a petulant character named Max in "Kicking and Screaming," Noah Baumbach's 5003 cult movie, when a member of his post-collegiate quadrumvirate attempts to introduce a fifth guy.
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Such seemingly benign "progress" in inter-Korean relations will make Washington and Tokyo nervous, as the new fuzzy atmospherics will allow Kim to buy time and funds with which to perfect his weapons, while painting Trump as the perpetually petulant party.
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On one side of an actual FOIA document, which Mesches has glued into the center of the picture, is a painting of shadowy figures in front of a glowing cross; on the other side there's a sketch of a petulant baby.
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His own half-brother wasn't safe from this petulant wrath, and Kim Jong Nam had a "kill order" put on his head as well as several attempts on his life, according to Kim Byung Kee, a lawmaker in South Korea's opposition Minjoo Party.
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At one point, like most of the crowd and the country watching, Dickerson seemingly couldn't take the petulant screaming and infighting on stage and half-jokingly said "I'll turn this car around" as a way to get a grip on the moment.
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If Trump, arguably the most petulant bull in the China shop, leaves office in 2020, the pendulum may swing the other way and his replacement can quickly undo many of his abhorrent actions which have divided the civilized world and the G20.
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He has these big eyes that brim with emotion, and combined with generously full lips that turn down at the corners, this means he can play cute and boyish, petulant, angry, cocky, sexy, or a combination of all, as the script requires.
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" In Rome, Smollett also observed his compatriots acting badly: "[A] number of raw boys, whom Britain seemed to have poured forth on purpose to bring her national character into contempt: ignorant, petulant, rash, and profligate without any knowledge or experience of their own.
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Both fights are revealing for different reasons (the first for his obsession with her image, and the second for his petulant need for attention) but at the end of the day, Kanye has some things he needs to work on in therapy. Hey!
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Cho Hyun-min, the younger sister of the notorious "nut rage" heiress of the airline, who got into trouble over a petulant outburst in 2014, is being investigated over accusations that she threw a drink at people at a business meeting last month.
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In "Wrong Move," an updated version of Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" written by Peter Handke, Mr. Vogler plays a petulant would-be poet whose search for a utopian unity of poetry and politics telescopes, even as it satirizes, two centuries of German Romanticism.
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Yes, those of us whose teams hail from smaller markets sometimes fall prey to a slightly petulant, even bilious resentment of all that boughten glory — the exorbitant free-agent contracts, the legions of scouts, the colossal television revenues — but who can blame us?
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This would include binge-watching shows like "Stranger Things" or "House of Cards," but I'd start with "Game of Thrones," especially the episodes that feature the mad, thoroughly awful King Joffrey, a petulant narcissist, who may remind you of someone you know.
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One moment we are in the petulant presence of the king or awaiting the arrival "like a demon, on a blast of wind," of Sir Francis Bacon, and the next growing fond of the good-natured fictional wet nurse sharing Frances Howard's cell.
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With the final selection of the new border wall nearing and with more petulant California officials poking this administration in the eye, Trump is right to utilize what may be his strongest bargaining chip yet: allowing California to descend into further chaos.
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Before any petulant American readers ask "Who cares?" recall that the U.K. is our mother country, our staunchest ally and most important trade, intelligence and cultural partner, and that Queen Elizabeth is perhaps the most respected head of state and iconic world leader.
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Delivered at the time as a reprimand to a petulant player, the phrase has become a personal calling card of sorts for Owens, a tidy encapsulation of the stern-but-funny style that has made him rugby's most respected, and most recognizable, referee.
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Mr. Just described the memoir, in which General Westmoreland placed much of the blame for the war's outcome on cynical and defeatist journalists, as "petulant" and self-justifying, showing more concern about the war's effects on his army than on his country.
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Carter did not help in shaping the perception that he was just another petulant brat who wanted his way when things went bad, but he also wasn't the first one to hold a franchise hostage because of the power superstars wield in this league.
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I hope to not ruin it for you, but TJ Miller was a bully and petulant brat and pretty much everyone who had any power on that (almost all male) set, including the male cast members, enabled him and were complicit in his unprofessionalism.
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Jericho, 20 years removed from his last stint in Japan and unrelentingly petulant about anyone else, anywhere, calling themselves the best in the world, flipped a switch to a profane, unhinged version of himself that could never fly in the PG-era of WWE.
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"It's the biggest lead for a film I have had, and playing Queen Anne is a gift," Colman said of playing a character who is both a "petulant child" and "a woman who is under-confident and doesn't know if anyone truly loves her".
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A night after delivering his Afghanistan plan in mostly sober, if not particularly illuminating language, President Donald Trump entertained his core supporters in Phoenix with a medley of the fiery, at times petulant and uncannily digressive rhetoric he rode to the White House last year.
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Bring on the brats: Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow and Luke Wilson tap into their petulant sides to play grown-up prodigies — a financial whiz, an award-winning playwright and a tennis champion — whose estranged father wants to weasel his way back into the fold.
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After all, the name was released many months prior to the movie, and until December of that year nobody knew the character would be turn out to be a petulant Force-wielding brat manipulated by mysterious evil into abandoning his mom and stabbing his dad.
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Occasionally, Hal wondered if such night-club-like patrolling by the engineers of their turf was a petulant reaction to their profession's declining relevance in a world where it was now possible to record, mix, edit, and even master broadcast-quality audio on a laptop.
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In this Ride Along, Chandler recounts the tug-of-war over his longtime friend, his growth from a petulant and overlooked kid at the University of Florida to a respected NBA veteran, and his thoughts on facing Kobe one last time at the Staples Center.
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That was the same year Hingis turned petulant during a dramatic French Open final loss to Steffi Graf, angering the volatile Paris crowd and Graf by violating tennis protocol and crossing the net to examine a ball mark in Graf's half of the court.
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A recent and, even by its own lofty standards, especially hilarious and cringingly tasteless episode of "South Park" features the passionate and petulant schlimazel, middle-aged dad Randy Marsh, watching TV, when a commercial for a fictional consumer genetics company comes on the screen.
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Senator Bob Corker, under attack from the president and fellow Republicans because he dared to voice his alarm at Mr. Trump's childish, petulant, destructive instincts and behavior, stated that the vast majority of Senate Republicans understand the dangerous situation triggered by Mr. Trump's volatility.
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The archetypes include Siouxsie, a motorcycle-riding rebel (Sammi Hanratty), investigating the death of her sister years before; a senator's petulant son (a worthy Colby Arps); a gay drug dealer (Matthew Frias); a clergyman's daughter (Sophia Taylor Ali); and a cat fancier (Erika Daly).
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Surprised and clearly irked, Mr. Trump fired back Thursday with a petulant, taunting letter postponing a congressional delegation that Ms. Pelosi had been scheduled to lead to Brussels and Afghanistan — or at least canceling military support for it — for the duration of the shutdown.
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" He seemed like a petulant, hyper-rich brat — that is to say, a caricature of himself: "I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.
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Let's recap the plot: Petulant teenager Sarah (a 14-year-old Jennifer Connelly, in her fourth film role) lives in a fantasy world but is constantly being dragged back to earth by the dreary realities of her life — including her perpetually wailing baby half-brother, Toby.
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George essentially believes he deserves to have sex with a beautiful woman because he's a white guy living in modern America, and when he doesn't succeed (and he almost never succeeds, which is what keeps him from feeling too creepy or insufferable), he grows ever more petulant.
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And just as Trump has no intention of giving up control of his businesses, he has no intention of giving up his rallies either, maybe because he believes they are the key to his success and maybe because he is a petulant narcissist and maybe both.
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Like Gudnason, LaBeouf is older than the character he's playing but plenty convincing as McEnroe; still, it's a thinner portrait, presenting him as a young guy with tons of anger and an abrasive edge, but without enough depth to make him much more than a petulant boor.
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But as a walking sight gag, described by another character as "a petulant child in the body of an aging man," he's as much an effigy of the sitting American president as the Angry Baby balloon that flew over Parliament Square during Mr. Trump's brief recent visit.
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That would be a newly reorganized boy band (called F8, and pronounced "fate") and a girl band (Special K). There is also the label's reigning solo artist, MwE (a divinely petulant Ashley Park, who wears Tricia Barsamian's haute girl-goddess costumes as if they were sweatsuits).
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But something that is seen by that many people can easily become a site of protest (political, or just petulant), or simply disrupted, whether by the Justin Timberlake/Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction, or M.I.A. flashing a middle finger to the camera or Prince's very careful guitar placement.
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While Republicans play petty politics and twist themselves into pretzels just to vent their petulant resentment against Barack Obama, millions of people's lives are being toyed with, and we watch in horror a charade of governing by people without the least idea of what they are doing.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Coco Vandeweghe's petulant standoff over a shortage of bananas was the low point on a horror day for the United States at the Australian Open on Monday as a raft of American players skidded out of the season's first grand slam in the first round.
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For (the most egregious) example: You might have already heard about the season's third episode, which has Titus mount a one-man show as his alter ego from a past life, a Japanese geisha, and get a world of shit online from a petulant advocacy group.
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But although the approach Schumer hinted at might be perfectly legal, a petulant Democratic refusal to consider and vote on Supreme Court nominees at the beginning of a newly elected president's term would violate over a century of legal precedent -- and could cause gridlock in the nation's highest court.
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Related: Donald Trump promised his Reddit AMA would be great — it wasn't Speaking before Clinton on Thursday, Elmets called Trump "a petulant, dangerously unbalanced reality star who will coddle tyrants and alienate allies," and said he plans to vote for a Democrat for the first time in his life.
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Dealing with angry, sometimes petulant, and occasionally downright bigoted strangers is unfortunately an integral part of playing online video games, and the companies that operate the multiplayer platforms on which players communicate can only do so much to regulate behavior when the offenses consist mostly of real-time speech.
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Christie's dismissal of Obama as a "petulant child" may not have been as harsh as the "feckless weakling" charge he made during the last debate, but the overall point was just as clear: The New Jersey Governor is going to keep shouting and shoving to stay in this race.
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Take, for example, the early scene in which Thérèse, a prisoner of a loveless marriage in 19th-century provincial France, has learned that her petulant invalid husband, Camille (Gabriel Ebert), has decided to move with her and his doting mother (Judith Light) to Paris to start a new life.
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"If anything, you could make the case that by bringing in someone who was more experienced, less petulant, and less impulsive in how they make decisions, it would make the Iranians less capable of taking advantage of some of the mistakes that this crown prince has been making."
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A year after allegedly choking Lucy DeCoutere and slapping her in the face, Jian Ghomeshi stole her mic during a karaoke performance to sing Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time," the court heard Thursday, in testimony that painted the former CBC host as a petulant narcissist.
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How that plays with a President who so far has shown himself to be incapable of managing his emotions -- the Comey firing being, at its heart, a petulant swat at someone he reportedly described as a "nut job" to Russian officials during their fateful meeting -- is anyone's guess.
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Because he was a good writer, a thoughtful writer, and that scene had a reason to exist besides morbid curiosity or a petulant delight in shrugging on and off another's pain — the fact that a reader couldn't see that shook my core about what fiction could and couldn't do.
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Letters To the Editor: "Chaos Theory in Oval Office Is Taking Its Toll" (front page, March 2) describes a feckless, thin-skinned, petulant, impulsive and paranoid president and a demoralized White House in free fall, with the president at war with his own advisers, cabinet members and staff.
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Have we already become so inured to the madness of the Trump administration that we have simply forgotten over these six months what it would be like if America had a real president to manage this crisis — not the historically ignorant, erratic, petulant boy king we're stuck with?
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It was during Bill Clinton's presidency that the social critic Christopher Lasch published "The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy," which mourned that "upper-middle-class liberals" had turned into "petulant, self-righteous, intolerant" scolds, thoroughly out of touch with the concerns of Middle America.
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One particularly shocking anecdote from a New York Times piece recounts an incident in 2008 when a petulant Klobuchar berated a staffer for forgetting a fork for her lunch, ate said lunch with a comb she pulled out of her purse, then proceeded to make the staffer clean the comb.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture: Reality has caught up with House of Cards' black-comic political noir in its fifth season...It's actually a tad more reassuring than reality because here, at least, when the key players aren't acting like petulant children with bodyguards, they appear to know what they're doing.
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True, as with the War Power resolution, the president can veto such an act of Congress, but at his peril since he will need Congress to fund his future priorities, and Congresses have been known to become petulant when presidents snub their noses at the East end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
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If you have not read the Melrose books, you might think that this is a show about a petulant prince who likes to party; the abuse is hinted at in the episode, as Cumberbatch suppresses tears next to his father's coffin, but you don't yet feel the wallop of it.
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"Trump said if there had been the kerfuffle about the stairs and the press, he would have just stayed on the plane and gone home," she said, seeking to portray Mr. Trump as a petulant child, while citing her own dealings with China during her time at the State Department.
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Acclimate yourself to the barking antagonism of Tekashi 6ix9ine, a rainbow-haired instigator, and he suddenly embraces R. & B. Classify someone like Tyler, the Creator , as a relic of the petulant shock-rap era that his group, Odd Future, defined, and he unexpectedly matures into a clear-eyed and subtle stylist.
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But Simm and Gomez both brought their own brilliantly twisted 21st century take on the Master — Simm playing the character as a petulant platinum blonde raver kid in a hoodie, while Gomez's version is a bug-eyed mad Mary Poppins who would just as soon kiss you as kill you.
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Her approval rating is at its lowest its ever been (36 percent in Gallup), thanks to a never-ending book tour of her own where she blames everyone but the Cleveland Cavaliers' J.R. Smith for the 2016 loss, in what has amounted to a months-long petulant public therapy session.
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In any event, they are definitively unprincipled; one can state that a healthy GOP presence in the Senate will temper Clinton's influence on the Court, but it is irresponsible for a senior and accomplished politician — a former presidential nominee — to publicly endorse petulant opposition based only on "who the president is."
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It was a week defined by President Donald Trump's petulant "bye-bye" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as he left a Wednesday meeting, after Pelosi informed him she would not give him the $5 billion he wants to build a wall along the southern border.
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Horn's stimulating body of work, begun in the late-1960s, consists of conceptually-based process-oriented prosthetic performances, numerous films, feathery and kinetic metal sculptures, vast installations, intense loose drawings, self-documentary performance photographs, and petulant painting machines; often literally or metaphorically inhibiting or extending the body (usually female) into space.
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To complicate our picture of two petulant princelings facing each other off and threatening to take the world down with them, we sought out some sober analysis from James Hoare, associate fellow in the Asia program at Chatham House in London and former head of the British embassy in North Korea.
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For many long-time Scandal fans it's a true mystery why a woman as powerful, intelligent, and beautiful as Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) would waste her time being in love with a man like Fitzgerald Grant III (Tony Goldwyn), a petulant man-baby president who generally whines more than he actually governs.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The word "millennial" is so often spit off the tongue, used as spiteful Baby Boomer shorthand for a lazy, petulant generation that's perpetually young and naïve about how the "real world" works (though the oldest millennials are 22017 in 22016), despite allegedly killing industry after industry.
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The cast numbers 11, a rarity Off Broadway, but at a trim hour and a half the evening leaves little time for the characters to be fleshed out or the actors to truly shine (the vivacious Arielle Yoder, as a petulant hat client, comes close with only five minutes of stage time).
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He knew he would be on the defensive — over backing out of the Paris environment accord and the Iran nuclear deal, and now over the tariffs he slapped on European and Canadian steel and aluminum — so he made a point of being late, acting petulant, leaving early and lashing out at Mr. Trudeau.
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Other accomplished British and Australian actors (the series was produced for the Sky network) do perfectly competent work as bewigged and slightly caricatured Russians, including Clarke as the petulant Potemkin, Rory Kinnear as the scheming foreign minister Nikita Panin, and Richard Roxburgh as the hotheaded Grigory Orlov, Catherine's principal lover before Potemkin.
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Be it out of his own frustration or in combination with someone's advice, he has become a behavioral hybrid — a petulant 21-year-old who is also demonstrating a tired-of-the-nonsense leadership and delivering to James L. Dolan the badly needed message that the Knicks franchise is officially on the clock.
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Unable to dismiss these protests as "bad" or "skewed" polling, Trump's own Baghdad Bob took a different approach: "A lot of these people were there to protest an issue of concern to them and not against anything," claimed Spicer, working hard to pretend the protests had nothing to do with his petulant, demoralized boss.
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Beyond Trump's petulant temperament, character deficit and consistent dishonesty, his "flexibility" on a litany of policies from threatening to abandon our longtime partners in Europe, admiration for strongmen like Russian President Vladimir Putin, dangerous protectionism (reminiscent of Hoover's disastrous policies of the 1920s) to tinkering with the party's pro-life platform are anathema to the foundation of the GOP.
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Though he filled much of the his pre-presidency by saying that demonstrably innocent people of color should be given the death penalty, refusing to rent his properties to black people, launching a series of failed pseudo-scams, and allegedly sexually assaulting a number of women, Donald J Trump still remarkably found the time to be a petulant creep.
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At the Women's March on Washington this weekend, nearly half a million men and women gathered to oppose Trump, many of them wearing pink hats that evoked cat ears in a sartorial response to the comments most sensible people thought would ruin the petulant businessman's candidacy, most of them furiously wondering how things had gotten this bad.
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Violins screech on "She Knows" as if laid down by Vicky Aspinall, while baroque horns on "Make Time 4 Love" cast Louis as a dour, sassy Jens Lekman, giving his theatrical vocal (one of the best on the record, going from romantic to downcast to straight-up petulant over the song's runtime) an adequately dramatic padding.
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After Stoudemire told Israeli media that he'd refuse to be in the same locker room as a gay teammate, Amaechi told TMZ Sports he's sick and tired of negative role models like A.S. "These are serious times and we need serious people to lead important conversations, not petulant man-children spouting puerile prejudice," Amaechi told us.
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Making Faith and her friends feel like a bunch of idealistic but slightly petulant kids is the right move for this game, where the solution to every problem is either petty vandalism (you can rip apart municipal electronics for a boy who spends his time painting "YOU ARE SLAVES" on city walls in '90s bubble letters) or breaking and entering.
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Justin Bieber (Wednesday and Thursday) This beleaguered boy-king of pop shares his initials with Joffrey Baratheon, the maddening young tyrant who met his demise in Season 4 on "Game of Thrones," and the similarities deepen upon inspection: Both have struggled to assert their masculinity through petulant outbursts; both have deep coffers at their disposal; and both have benefited greatly from good haircuts.
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In the same vein, while Olivia Colman's playing Angela Burr was a nonstop pleasure onscreen, looking like a petulant 15-year-old getting served with detention in this episode's opening scene (with Katherine Kelly as a permanent secretary who in some inner essential way struck me as a dead ringer for Carly Fiorina), the character promised way more than she ever delivered.
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"When we've said to ourselves on the Armed Services Committee or in the Senate that we were deeply disturbed and worried about a petulant and unpredictable administration, we could reassure ourselves and the nation that there was a strong and stable expert, a patriot, in the position of standing between the President and the use of military force," Blumenthal said.
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Saturday Night Live's depiction of Brett Kavanaugh as an angry, petulant man of privilege, so unused to being challenged that he started screaming when confronted with just about anything, was an over-obvious bit of political satire — a lukewarm take, driven less by anything concrete the show had to say and much more by its supposed obligation to say it.
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This is a president who openly stokes racial animosity and even racial violence, who praises dictators (and likely aspires to be one), who behaves like a petulant toddler on Twitter, and who has a passionate, devoted following of millions of people who proudly say they want to "make America great again" by taking us back to a time that we've left behind.
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We have 800,000 federal workers either furloughed or working without pay, countless contractors put on hold, and millions of Americans already negatively affected by Mr. Trump's petulant shutdown, all because the world's self-proclaimed greatest negotiator is hung up on getting funding for a wall that he promised we wouldn't have to pay for and most of us know we don't need.
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" Last month, Wetterlund, who played a computer engineer named Carla Walton on seasons 2 and 3 of the HBO comedy, tweeted, "I hope to not ruin it for you, but TJ Miller was a bully and petulant brat and pretty much everyone who had any power on that (almost all male) set, including the male cast members, enabled him and were complicit in his unprofessionalism.
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And this is the really striking thing about the current state of Republican Party politics — not the handful of crooks and spouse abusers who've been forced out of their jobs, but the petulant and foot-dragging manner in which they've been cashiered, the continued tolerance for so many apparent malefactors, and the evident lack of desire to even attempt anything resembling a proper house-cleaning.
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What made propagating urges so compelling, at least for me, was that it cut to the heart of a fundamental internal struggle: the clash between the shortsighted impulses that drive our daily behavior (checking email until it becomes ''too late'' to go to the gym) and the long-term aspirations that might make us genuinely happier if we could only persuade the petulant toddler in our minds to get onboard.
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Colman approaches Elizabeth with the same clipped cadence and restrained flatness that Foy brought to the part, even though viewers have recently seen her play another British monarch with so much bombast and melodrama that it won her the Oscar: If anything proves that Colman is a versatile actress, it is seeing her swerve from The Favourite's petulant, barking Queen Anne into the staid and solid Queen Elizabeth.
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An 43-year-old reputed mob figure who was acquitted in connection with the storied 1978 Lufthansa heist in 2015 was indicted again on Wednesday, this time along with John Gotti's grandson, accused of conduct as petulant and petty as the $6 million robbery of the terminal at Kennedy Airport was grand: setting fire to the car of a motorist who had cut him off on the streets of Queens.
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Plus, all questions about the book's factual accuracy aside, the gossipy tell-all is made for TV. Wolff paints Trump's election and subsequent time in office like a Coen Brothers–style farce, with Bannon, Kushner, and Priebus tripping over one another for Trump's ear, and a petulant president locking himself in a White House bedroom and accidentally leaking his own secrets to friends and acquaintances while he's curled up on the phone.
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In a weeklong exposé of the methods the club has used to circumvent UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations — to, in a comment attributed to Simon Pearce, one of the club's most influential executives, "do what we want" — Der Spiegel and Football Leaks have depicted a club that has, for almost a decade, worked tirelessly to deceive and co-opt the game's authorities, to make sure the rules do not apply to City; and whenever it has not gotten its way, it has reacted with petulant anger.
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Walking to that ring in Piper's massive jacket, looking like a child trying on their parent's clothes while the announcing team hailed her as someone who used to be the most dangerous woman in the world, Rousey continued to be everything that made her almost as compelling as she was infuriating in her past life: petulant and cocky, a woman whose inflated reputation is increasingly juxtaposed with her more limited reality, literally and metaphorically struggling to live up to her own mythology, trying to play the villain while wondering why she's not received as the hero.
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