Charm turned cantankerous By the 2008 campaign, after I had interviewed McCain many times while covering Congress for the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times, his charm turned cantankerous.
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His explanation did not satisfy Republicans, who grew increasingly cantankerous.
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Lasso a cantankerous whale, and teach it how to love?
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" It allows her to be cantankerous and lost in "Tammy.
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He earned a reputation as equal parts conservative and cantankerous.
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I mean, he&aposs a cantankerous kind of old style judge.
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His biting sense of humor, which could also be called cantankerous.
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Friends called him a cantankerous cuss who hated talk about himself.
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It's too much for one cantankerous homophobe and bully to take.
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Once settled in Monaco, she and Albert I had a cantankerous relationship.
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Alaskans are a cantankerous bunch who can't agree on much of anything.
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Collectively, the wide-eyed, cantankerous varmints outweigh us by 66 billion pounds.
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That loud-mouthed aliens with poor hygiene and cantankerous manners had kidnapped me.
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Your cantankerous, irrational old grandpa was out there asking if Harden was drugged.
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That is to say it was electric, mournful, unrepentant, polemical, ecological, and cantankerous.
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The Social Democrats, her coalition partners, are cantankerous but also side with her.
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A cantankerous judge Federal Judge T.S. Ellis has loomed over the trial as a cantankerous ringleader of the Manafort circus, and his frequent interruptions and challenges to Mueller's team have added an extra layer of complication for the prosecution team.
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Joining the Reddit team after his project falters, Swartz contributes little but cantankerous comments.
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PITY the lowly cartoonists attempting to earn a living by caricaturing cantankerous world leaders.
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He projected an image of cantankerous righteousness, and we saw ourselves reflected in it.
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The Obama administration has shepherded some of each tactic through a sometimes cantankerous Congress.
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It was a show of stamina and of sheer, cantankerous rock 'n' roll persistence.
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Ask Real Estate When cantankerous neighbors make life miserable, it can veer into harassment.
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In 2002, he brought a cantankerous, post-9/93 monologue to London's Roundhouse Theater.
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The business is now "a thriving 4-year-old, cantankerous at times," she said.
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He was a perhaps a bit of a dyskolos, a grouch, cantankerous, a curmudgeon.
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Among his theatre and movie-industry peers, he is famous for being famously cantankerous.
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At thirty-four, I often feel like a cantankerous dried husk of a woman.
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Being cantankerous and all…Knxwledge: We've been out here eating sandwiches in different countries, man.
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Mr. Lanzmann was a dominating, outspoken and cantankerous figure in French intellectual and public life.
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Several other setbacks have come courtesy of the cantankerous presiding federal judge, T.S. Ellis III.
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He's still a bit cantankerous about the business, but he's a legitimate national hero in Canada.
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As the company's chairman, Mr. Plank could be cantankerous, but he maintained a reputation for integrity.
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During his career, Ellis has established himself as a cantankerous yet witty ringmaster in the courtroom.
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On the show, Philip (played by Matt Smith) is cantankerous — a loving husband, but an abrasive man.
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Exhibits rotate about once every three weeks, with openings that sometimes bring together the area's cantankerous stalwarts.
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But of course, if the managing agent stops enabling the cantankerous attitude, all of this can stop.
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Rationale: We need more detail on the Statler & Waldorf back story, including how they became so cantankerous.
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Mastoris's first boss was the cantankerous Leafs owner Harold Ballard, who later went to jail for fraud.
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Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) wants the cantankerous Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) to train her as a boxer.
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Behind it all is 3GI, the team responsible for the annual festival dedicated to the cantankerous ogre, Shrekfest.
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It's unabashedly hopeful, almost strangely so for a notoriously cantankerous punk band that's nearing 20 years of existence.
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The character is almost cute, appearing like the cantankerous comic relief in a children's book by Brian Jacques.
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What is it about the word that is so grating (to, again, cantankerous ears), other than its omnipresence?
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In "Paraguay," he longs for a tropical haven and ends up ranting about information overload, still deeply cantankerous.
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The documentary Lifeline recounts Still's life, career, and legacy — and how they were shaped by his cantankerous temperament.
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There are no fiery, cantankerous speeches on the show, much less "rigged election" conspiracies or allegations of sexual assault.
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And Grandpa Joe couldn't be more like Sanders himself: generous, cantankerous, hunched, and in desperate need of a comb.
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I complained about it at a recent meeting like the cantankerous co-worker I am, and now we're here.
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These two Upper West Siders are cantankerous companions who kvetch about anything that seems different than they remember it.
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Others, like the World Cup champion women's national team and its fight for pay equality, are cantankerous and complex.
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WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain, the sometimes cantankerous, often charming and eternally irrepressible Republican from Arizona, has never minced words.
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It means recognizing that the one thing even cantankerous people like to talk about more than politics is themselves.
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They also generally adore McCain, who is beloved despite his cantankerous ways and frequent stands against this own party.
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A cantankerous ex-governor and former prosecutor, Mr. Hong has employed rhetoric that has been compared to Mr. Trump's.
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In the small and prickly world of music journalists, Mr. DeRogatis, 225.8, stands out as especially cantankerous and contrarian.
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INGRAHAM: Wow, we don&apost even have time to get to T.S. Ellis and how he was a little cantankerous.
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Despite the usual cantankerous grousing — just part of the holiday fun — Thanksgiving's greatest purpose is recognizing shared traditions and ancestors.
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Steve Jobs was a visionary leader at Apple, but he also had a reputation for being a difficult, cantankerous jerk.
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Brendan played the cantankerous Defense Against The Dark Arts professor Mad-Eye Moody in three of the "Harry Potter" films.
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Bernie Sanders was cantankerous and impatiently dismissed concerns that his proposals were too ambitious to see the light of day.
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Carr, who recently changed his name from Carrajat, is seventy-two, stocky and cantankerous, with white hair and a beard.
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Bernie Sanders was cantankerous and impatiently dismissed concerns that his proposals were too ambitious to see the light of day.
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We&aposll also get into the cantankerous T.S. Ellis, the federal district judge who is presiding over the Paul Manafort trial.
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The Australian Prime Minister had earlier discovered how now even a courtesy call with a close ally can quickly turn cantankerous.
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Then 72, Boesch finished the season in third place and quickly became a fan favorite due to his lovably cantankerous persona.
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You report that your aunt is cantankerous and mistrustful, but you don't say that she's lost the capacity for rational thought.
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If you want to hear a cantankerous interview, go back and find Ken's visit to this building a couple years ago.
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Ulrich Matthes leads a strong cast as the cantankerous, rude and generally unpleasant Alceste, who despises the hypocrisy of polite society.
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Dominic Cummings, the cantankerous head of the campaign and a staunch critic of how the government has handled negotiations, is an adviser.
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With all the exit scams, weird meat obsessions, and cantankerous fan-boy culture, the world of cryptocurrency is kind of a drag.
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Lucky isn't cantankerous so much as he is incapable of altering his behavior to accommodate anyone at this point in his life.
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I only had but a second to play with it, as there were many cantankerous writers waiting in line to drive it.
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"This government is really destroying the country," complains the cantankerous former prime minister, now 91 and still sporting his trademark safari suit.
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She and Alex Karpovsky, who plays the cantankerous Ray, just can't stop giggling when the script calls for some tender face-stroking.
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But there's no question about the imaginative impact of the show itself as a panorama of a singular, cantankerous, container-resistant career.
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Twenty-six years is an inordinately long time for a buggy, eccentric, cantankerous video game to rule the most niche of roosts.
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If various generations can agree, it's perhaps that experienced, cantankerous female authors of a certain age can be problematic without being canceled.
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Barks McWoofins became a retired fake spokesperson that came back into service for National Consumer Protection Week but was really cantankerous about it.
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"From one cantankerous senator to another, sending my prayers & best wishes to @SenatorReid as he recovers from a successful surgery," McCain tweeted. Sen.
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On Golf OAKMONT, Pa. — For an old, cantankerous blue blood of a course, Oakmont Country Club has shown a surprising tolerance of youth.
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Leonard McCoy Memorial Medical and Veterinarian Scholarship:This scholarship is named for actor Kelley and character McCoy, the cantankerous doctor in the original series.
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They have also both been steadfast in their opposition to Western warmongering and can come off as being a bit scruffy and cantankerous.
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A cantankerous self-made tycoon, Mr. Pickens shook up the oil business, promoted the concept of shareholder value and evangelized for renewable energy.
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Mr. Trump had a famously cantankerous relationship with Mr. Koch, but needed support from him and from Mr. Giuliani for his development projects.
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So much of what the public sees – and what the media covers – is focused on cantankerous debate, partisan controversy, and deep policy differences.
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Her father, a physician, is both a diligent observer of his own failing health and a cantankerous patient who is infuriated by it.
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Wolfson joked that his inspiration for Sanders came from watching Statler and Waldorf, cantankerous elderly Muppets who lob critiques from their balcony seats.
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David Dimbleby, who had been in the moderator's chair since 1994, was liked by many for his cantankerous treatment of the guests and audience.
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Just like Artoo, Ezra's cantankerous droid Chopper broke down on the dunes and became sympathetic for probably the first time in the whole show.
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Mr Ramos, a cantankerous veteran from the Democratic Action party, which governed Venezuela before Chávez, was the choice of smaller parties within the MUD.
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He has also regularly performed as the shy monosyllabic lab assistant, Beaker, and as Statler, half of the cantankerous old hecklers, Statler and Waldorf.
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Indeed, Brexit raises a big — and disturbing — question: Are we all destined to become more prejudiced, cantankerous shadows of our former selves one day?
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She is the cantankerous great aunt who promises candy to her nieces and nephews while screeching at her neighbor's children playing in the street.
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Or was he only trying to abide by the wishes of Mr. Indiana, who by many accounts grew ever more cantankerous as he aged.
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A review of the recent dissension on the museum's website, and the exhilarating sight in the galleries of his singular, cantankerous, container-resistant career.
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Inevitably, Shirley's cantankerous personality infects young wife Rose (Odessa Young), and their mutual unhappiness is the engine that drives in this smart period piece.
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Wolfson joked that his inspiration for Sanders came from watching 'Statler and Waldorf,' the cantankerous elderly Muppets who lob critiques from their balcony seats.
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"Science cannot help us," said Aleksey P. Nikiforov, 58, the charming, voluble, occasionally cantankerous founder of the race, held this year on March 2.
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If pushed, a slighted, even more cantankerous Erdogan could make good his threat to unleash over 3 million Syrian migrants from Turkey into southern Europe.
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In these senses, Torres-García, who became a cantankerous old man in a straggling white beard and a long overcoat, was a model Latin American.
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If issuing cantankerous statements about relatively small slights is a hidden step in 12-step programs, my friends in recovery have not heard of it.
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Granted, the cantankerous Bernie Sanders and the brash Donald Trump may be caricature American personalities, but their roles are purely European (or perhaps Latin American).
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I'm not usually into books that follow kids because I'm a cantankerous grump, but I like the unusual best friendship that blooms between the two.
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Wright—with his sometimes cantankerous affection, his sympathy for the reader who has, as he has, seen and heard this all before—is profoundly companionable.
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Torture over more than five years of captivity had imbued him with a humanity that transcended politics, even if did not dim his cantankerous bellicosity.
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One of the movie's funniest, most charming scenes is a brief bit in which Marcus and Gil attempt to order from a particularly cantankerous waitress.
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In the bleakly comic and relentlessly claustrophobic "Endgame," a play by Samuel Beckett, he plays the submissive Clov to Mr. Cumming's cantankerous and blind Hamm.
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Poem The deceased parents in Ted Kooser's poem are nothing like the cantankerous apparition of folklore, nor is their son "spooked" by their lingering presence.
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And if your cantankerous uncle unexpectedly invites you to a festive party, with lots of toasting and wine, maybe let him take the first sip.
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"From one cantankerous senator to another, sending my prayers & best wishes to @SenatorReid as he recovers from a successful surgery," Mr. McCain, a Republican, wrote.
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We find retired school teacher Olive Kitteridge still as cantankerous as ever, as she and other residents grapple with aging, sickness, and life's general disappointments.
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Lewis's death comes just days after the death of standup comedian Dick Gregory, and earlier this year, another cantankerous comedian, Don Rickles, died at 22011.
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But the biggest draw is the warm camaraderie of Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany as Captain Aubrey and Dr. Maturin, sparring and cantankerous best friends.
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To the extent that anyone in the Republican primary today holds a mirror up to the GOP base—old, cantankerous, nativist, and caucasian—it's Donald Trump.
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But right in front of me, on this ridge, was the most cantankerous animal I knew on this earth, all juiced up from his unresolved fight.
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Judge Ellis then says -- cantankerous old Judge Ellis way, who I love dearly (ph), all this document shows is that Mr. Manafort had a lavish lifestyle.
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"From one cantankerous senator to another, sending my prayers & best wishes to @SenatorReid as he recovers from a successful surgery," the Arizona Republican wrote on Twitter.
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The brothers' Irish Catholic mother, Peggy — always needy, and now legitimately overwrought by her husband's crisis — is as much of a handful as their cantankerous father.
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Still, Mr. Duterte's openness to talking with China, and his cantankerous attitude toward the Americans, would probably delay the construction plans for Scarborough, Mr. Jin said.
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She is crammed in with cantankerous relatives, a cat and a white Shih Tzu mix named WALL-E; tension chokes the house like a noxious gas.
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It could be worse for Maurice, a cantankerous fowl with a magnificent puffed-out coat who struts Ms. Fesseau's back yard with three hens in tow.
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It was a cantankerous old brute of a boat, a former East German research vessel that now belongs to a small German nonprofit called Sea-Eye.
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With only 12 paintings in the exhibition, you can take your time looking at the artworks and reading the finicky, at times even cantankerous, accompanying texts.
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DedSec is terrific, a HudMo LP "proper" in all but background, dizzy drops and zesty snares circling the crackling, cantankerous electronica that he's established his reputation on.
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He often shared his wit on Twitter and became something of a viral sensation known for his hilariously cantankerous observations, especially those directed at President Donald Trump.
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Since then, the show has ostensibly been taking place in his subconscious, with its cast of cantankerous characters transported into a classic noir and a pulp adventure.
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Artist Ewa Tarsia's grassy public sculptures "Cool Dot" were smashed during Winnipeg's Canada Day celebrations, with cantankerous Canucks cavorting atop the wood, compost, dirt, and sod installations.
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Instead, the famously cantankerous President is laying low as his Republican colleagues in the Senate work furiously to strike a deal on a bill to repeal Obamacare.
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A formidable if cantankerous and territorial breeder, Shaw was loyal to the growers who depended on his cultivars and uninterested in working with proprietary companies like Driscoll's.
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Though Fannie Lowenstein and the old New York in which she lived are both long gone, the legends of these rare, lucky and often cantankerous holdouts remain.
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Yet, because the cantankerous title character is played by the marvelous Sheila Hancock — one of the true grandes dames of British entertainment — I allowed myself to hope.
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Kyle Busch, the cantankerous and profane stock-car driver whose fan base calls itself Rowdy Nation, wears his Nascar championship ring from 2015 on his middle finger.
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Iowa is an odd duck of a contest, with its old-fashioned focus on handshaking and town halls, its cantankerous, engaged voters, and its evening-long caucus process.
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Many Republican senators have strongly objected to Mr Obama naming the successor to Mr Scalia, their eloquent and cantankerous champion on the court for the past 30 years.
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Timothy C. May, a physicist, polemicist and cantankerous advocate of internet privacy who helped start a movement aimed at protecting the privacy of individuals online, died on Dec.
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The two are frenemies — odd, codependent bedfellows with shared dreams of pushing outward into the solar system, a cantankerous couple that cannot live with or without each other.
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Now, Mitchell is trying to blend the movement strategies of the new world with the imperatives of practical politics, and even the cantankerous Rogers said he was impressed.
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Another novel, "You Gotta Play Hurt" (1991), a sendup of the sportswriter's life, tells of a cantankerous Fort Worthian and the stuffy, big time magazine he works for.
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Often rude, cantankerous, and certainly snooty, Margaret had the ultimate put-down when asked by a host if they wanted to see some new photographs of the family's children.
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The movie's core performance, it turns out, comes from Michael Rooker, once again playing Yondu: flawed, cantankerous and, despite his cobalt skin and red Mohawk fin, very, very human.
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He meets his nemesis in a woman we know as Bebe (Amrita Singh), a cantankerous woman fond of her drink and ferociously possessive of a tree on her property.
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Lifeline: Clyfford Still, an excellent new documentary by filmmaker and art collector Dennis Scholl, recounts Still's life, career, and legacy, and how all were shaped by his cantankerous temperament.
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He was also president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and was "publicly often cantankerous and privately quietly devoted to the field," according to former SFWA president John Scalzi.
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Braun is a cantankerous internet ranter of incredible bile and imagination, prone to punctuating his often terrifying spiels with "motherfuckers" and accusations of necrophilia aimed at some unseen offscreen doubter.
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Yet the biggest obstacle for Mr. Sanders, Vermont's junior senator, may be the perception that his ideas are too radical — and his persona too cantankerous — to win a general election.
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The real romance is between Cam's mother, Maddie, a famous detective-story writer who's just come through a successful bout with chemo, and Kirstin's cantankerous, aggressive and overprotective father, Sam.
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Regardless, it'll likely be a wonderful sedan or hatchback, and only a few cantankerous Subaru fanatics will flail about with fury over the lack of a manual gearbox (including me).
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In Jacksonville, cantankerous old man receiver Steve Smith went after upstart rookie corner Jalen Ramsey, starting with a hit by Smith on an official for which he should probably be fined.
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There was a mother with a yearling cub just above him, and I realized that this cantankerous son of a bitch was going to see this mother and go after her.
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Trump avoided tweeting almost entirely on that first swing, his cantankerous mood tempered by the presence of his wife, Melania, and a rapid-pace schedule that included stops in five countries.
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Trump has had his own cantankerous relationship with the concept, including whether he will actually be able to "drain the swamp" and whether many of his other campaign promises pass constitutional muster.
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We would experience a peaceful (if not cantankerous) revolution that would toss out the old guard, replacing it with a new political class focused on pragmatism and common cause for the nation.
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In Mr. Castro, they saw a cantankerous autocrat who failed to string together a few coherent sentences when a journalist asked why his government continues to detain people for their political beliefs.
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And Mr. Sanders's brand of cantankerous democratic socialism would pose real risks if he was installed in the presidency, where he would be expected to manage and govern rather than simply campaign.
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Nicholas Jubber learned to harness and ride those cantankerous beasts in North Africa, training with a desert tribesman so he could join the annual azalai, or caravan, to Mali's Taoudenni salt mines.
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But it's clear also that in the eyes of many analysts that there is something fundamentally improbable about a disheveled and cantankerous socialist winning the nomination and then winning the White House.
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A cantankerous and outspoken investor, Mr. Icahn has long made headlines for his investing style, one that involves aggressively attacking the chiefs of some of the biggest companies in the United States.
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As the band kicked into set opener "Puss," a violent standout off 217's cantankerous Liar LP, he all but flew off the Irving Plaza stage and into the sold-out crowd.
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The world might have changed dramatically since Larry was last on the air, but HBO and David are confident that the show's depiction of oblivious wealth and cantankerous grievances will be timeless.
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Those results will further complicate its efforts to find a buyer without having solved the thorny question of what to do with its cantankerous founder, John Schnatter, people briefed on the process say.
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He also recalled McCain as a man who could be cantankerous and stubborn but treated political opponents, including Democrats, with mutual respect while cherishing friendships struck up with those with whom he differed.
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And on Sunday, during Super Bowl 53, a second spot offered a few more details — including additional glimpses of our heroes' cantankerous partnership and (yesss) a few more moments of Idris being badass.
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But for the past half-decade or so, he's had a big handful of cantankerous, self-righteous product leaders nudging him off course so they could experiment with new designs and business models.
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In his prime, he was a sometimes cantankerous quotation machine in the pressroom and a magnet for hecklers in the United States, even though he had played college golf at Houston Baptist University.
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The famously cantankerous Fischer forfeited his title in 1975 amid a dispute with the world chess federation, and the sport has been dominated by Russians and Eastern Europeans in the decades since then.
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It pitted Stephen Harper, a cantankerous Conservative from the oil-producing province of Alberta who had governed for nearly ten years, against Justin Trudeau, the handsome dynast in charge of the Liberal Party.
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All have had a long association with "The Lady in the Van," the improbable story of Mary Shepherd, a cantankerous homeless woman who took up residence, in the titular van, in Mr. Bennett's driveway.
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But the author of a book titled You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left must have thick skin, and anyway he's rich.
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The cantankerous-sounding Vermont senator hot on Hillary Clinton's heels for the Democratic presidential nomination is also a slow-dancing-in-the-living-room kind of guy, his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders tells PEOPLE.
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In "Louisiana's Way Home," her cantankerous Granny ferrets Louisiana away from their Florida home in the middle of the night only to wind up on the side of the road with a major toothache.
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Nowadays, Discogs has an app that you'll often see people use to look up the "going market rate" of vinyl they find in record shops—often to the chagrin of cantankerous record store owners.
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Larry David, playing a cantankerous version of his rich, white male TV producer self, repeatedly stumbles into sexually inappropriate situations with women, while his manager, played by Jeff Garlin, is repeatedly mistaken for Weinstein.
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That doesn't mean this leisurely portrait of its title character, a cantankerous old coot (Harry Dean Stanton, in one of his last roles), is any more eventful at the end than at the beginning.
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The singer used the name as a pseudonym to hide the fact that she co-wrote "This Is What You Came For," the hit song made famous by her now cantankerous ex-boyfriend, Calvin Harris.
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His eyes shine with tears of pride when he's onstage with Charlotte, his daughter, and his voice cracks when he relates his cantankerous yet loving relationship with WCW, the defunct kingdom where he once ruled.
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Several of Mr. Breslin's family members, former colleagues and friends said the photo opportunity, near the Daily News building, would have been something the cantankerous columnist and advocate of ordinary New Yorkers would have skewered.
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Any agreement made in Brussels would still have to be approved by Britain's cantankerous House of Commons, which threw out the deal that was struck late last year and may scupper any future one, too.
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JIM CRAMER: And yet at the same time someone who we think is cantankerous someone who thinks of an unrelenting: Steve Jobs, seems to have some crafted a relationship, more than a friendship with you.
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Jess's cantankerous, anti-social attitude mixed with his sensitive side are all parallels to Luke, Lorelai's canonical soulmate — and, of course, he's Luke's nephew, which means he's already a member of Rory's evolving nuclear family.
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They&aposve had a very cantankerous relationship with the President, they&aposre approval numbers are way down and now this, I&aposm going to ask Kellyanne Conway about this in a few moments but your takeaway.
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" Asked by NowThis News in a video released Thursday what's a common misconception about him, the famously cantankerous Sanders replied, "They think I'm grumpy all of the time, and I'm only grumpy most of the time.
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When he died in 1980 at age 75, hardly anyone had ever seen the 800 or so paintings and the 2,300-plus works on paper that the tall, cantankerous artist stored on his 22-acre farm.
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When West was asked to compare the two coaches before Tuesday night's game against the visiting Heat, his answer was surprising, especially if you've spent any time listening to the often cantankerous Popovich address the media.
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There is a chance that the collapse of Mrs Merkel's government is only weeks away, with gloomy consequences for a continent grappling with Brexit, an incipient Italian-driven new euro crisis and an ever more cantankerous Russia.
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Never mind Kosovo's rampant corruption and politics that are so cantankerous that politicians themselves have lobbed tear gas canisters in their own chambers at least six times in the last few months to disrupt their own proceedings.
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It had been a slow reveal: absent on the first day, on the second Mrs Clinton spoke briefly by videolink after her formal nomination, which, in the end, her cantankerous rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, helped to orchestrate.
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Scholars often see the Lorax as a cantankerous ecopoliceman, defending the Truffula trees for activism's sake or out of possessiveness, but perhaps, the authors suggest, the Lorax was just defending the trees upon which he himself depended.
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That dubious honor is reserved for Fannie Lowenstein, the most cantankerous of the widows, who arrived at the Plaza in 1958 as a young divorcée and soon met a fellow hotel resident who became her second husband.
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If Corsica's nationalists have their way, this rugged, cantankerous island that for centuries has been going its own way would become Europe's next big secessionist tug of war, alongside Spain's dispute with Catalonia, or Britain's with Scotland.
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When he and Peele first talked about "The Last O.G.," he mentioned that he'd like to play a character like Gleason's Ralph Kramden, from "The Honeymooners"—cantankerous and somewhat overmatched by the changing times, but ultimately sympathetic.
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Now they were seeking, if not a true alternative, at least a counterweight to pull the party back their way: The party was the dream of a brilliant and cantankerous political scientist in Wisconsin named Joel Rogers.
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The program is run by another professional instigator, Myles, a classically cantankerous old man with a hard crust and 24-karat core who once upon a time would have been played by a grumbling, muttering Walter Brennan.
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Victoria, widowed since 1861, is, by her own account, cantankerous and fat; each morning, she submits to a discussion of her movements—a delicate matter, pertaining both to her bowels and to her social engagements for the day.
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The deal is an important moment for Ms. Redstone, who has long waited in the shadow of her father, a combative, cantankerous entrepreneur who over decades forged an empire through a series of mergers bankrolled by big loans.
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Various effigies depict the maestro as a cantankerous old man confined to his wheelchair in his final years or as a dictatorial, short-tempered perfectionist on the podium at the height of his career during the Nazi years.
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The Belgian artist, who turned to visual art at the audacious age of 40 after spending most of his professional life in poetry, developed a reputation as a wily and cantankerous provocateur through conceptual projects such as this museum.
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When journalists are all reluctantly herded into one place, everyone reverts to being slightly bitter and cantankerous about the very thing they are here to report, and also exchange ludicrous rumours and tales that could never be honestly reported.
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About halfway through Pixar's latest feature film, the Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory, a pair of the movie's heroes — Dory, the forgetful blue tang fish, and Hank, a cantankerous octopus — find themselves in a shallow, open-top aquarium exhibit.
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Mr. Thomas — who met Ruggles and spoke affectionately of him from the stage, calling him "a seriously cantankerous Yankee" — has long championed his music (a catalog of only a dozen works), especially in American Mavericks concerts in San Francisco.
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Sometimes it was said that these men had wild, unkempt hair, lived in cantankerous tribal groups in caves illumined by a strange blue glow, and favored T-shirts with whimsical sayings or the logos of defunct 1970s rock bands.
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Gregg Popovich can be a cantankerous old sonuvabitch when he's so inclined—which is generally whenever there is a microphone in his face, so whenever we see him—but he broke character for a bit while talking about Tim Duncan.
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I&aposm glad you mentioned that, because, you know, coming into the summit, some newspapers, including The Times, described the president as a bit of a black sheep of the family because of his sort of cantankerous nature before coming here.
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House lawmakers were in the midst of a marathon voting session on Thursday — a 2202-vote slog demanded by a single lawmaker — when the cantankerous Alaska Republican stormed down the aisle of the House floor and began screaming at Rep.
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David Huddleston, a burly, cantankerous and prolific character actor who had the title role opposite Jeff Bridges in "The Big Lebowski," Joel and Ethan Coen's 20143 mistaken-identity noir comedy, died on Tuesday in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 22014.
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And if, in some future world, we realize that the series began its pivot to being about the resistance, or about Emily's adventures in Canada, or about Bradley Whitford's cantankerous relationship with everybody, well, maybe we'll look on it more kindly.
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It marched on despite demographic changes that transformed the borough from a bedroom community synonymous with the cantankerous conservatism of Archie Bunker to the teeming home of some of the nation's most diverse neighborhoods — and an increasingly progressive Democratic base.
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To borrow the title of a Tom Wolfe novel, Mr. Dunning is "a man in full," by turns majestic and cantankerous, and unafraid to look into the void and to ask the deepest, most personal questions about the purpose of life.
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China's trade surplus with the United States widened to a record in August even as the country's export growth slowed slightly, an outcome that could push President Donald Trump to turn up the heat on Beijing in their cantankerous trade dispute.
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Jim Bunning, the Hall of Fame pitcher who threw a perfect game and later forged a second career as a fervently conservative and often cantankerous Republican representative and senator from Kentucky, died on Friday in the Fort Thomas, Ky., area.
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All of this points to one underlying trend: With the unemployment rate near a 50-year low, workers have better options than working monotonous jobs, on their feet all day, catering to cantankerous customers with unpredictable hours and low pay.
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" In 2014, he won the Hatchet Job of the Year award from the website Omnivore for his appraisal of "Autobiography," by the singer Morrissey, whom he called "the most ornery, cantankerous, entitled, whingeing, self-martyred human being who ever drew breath.
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He appointed himself a Superior Judge of Colorado and participated in a weekly conference call where derelict taxpayers, small-time criminals, and cantankerous old men discussed plans to create an armed group of "Continental United States Marshals" to carry out their work.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's trade surplus with the United States widened to a record in August even as the country's export growth slowed slightly, an outcome that could push President Donald Trump to turn up the heat on Beijing in their cantankerous trade dispute.
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His best-known play, "Wrong Turn at Lungfish," written with Lowell Ganz, was a bittersweet hospital-room comedy about a dying, sightless and cantankerous old intellectual, a perky, uneducated young woman who volunteers to read to him, and her lunkhead of a boyfriend.
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After a hospital-room reunion, where Ted is shocked to see how "skinny and gray" his father is, Ted moves back to his childhood home in Park Slope to care for the cantankerous widower whom Ted, for complicated reasons, still hotly resents.
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The American television producer Norman Lear acquired the rights to "Steptoe and Son" and adapted it into the long-running sitcom "Sanford and Son," which starred Redd Foxx as the cantankerous father, a role played on "Steptoe and Son" by Wilfrid Brambell.
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But he left the New York art world behind in 1978 for Vinalhaven, more than an hour by ferry from the mainland, where for decades, the cantankerous and reclusive artist lived and worked, surrounded by a crew of studio assistants and workers.
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In 1977, the artiest punk band in Britain — or maybe the punkiest art band — was Wire, whose magnificently cantankerous, lastingly influential, pointedly brief first three albums have been reissued as multiple-CD sets including demos, singles, alternate versions, unreleased songs and extensive annotations.
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Even with proper rest, there are other stress factors to consider, like cantankerous showrunners (see: the obscenity-filled emails Frank Darabont sent to his staff during Season One of "The Walking Dead"), or the constant scramble of having to find the next gig.
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On the other hand, it has become emblematic of the cantankerous, highly personal discourse that clings to the man himself: For a number of reasons — more on which later — many of his critics have come to claim that the anecdote is pure fabrication.
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He acknowledged the cantankerous start over the weekend at the beginning of Monday's briefing, saying he'd emailed his predecessor Josh Earnest to ensure him that his title as "most popular press secretary" -- designated by a poll of reporters earlier this year -- was safe for now.
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But the main object of Paint 3D is to make 3D objects, which won't appeal to those who appreciate the obstacles and challenges of Paint — like trying to draw a straight line using only a mouse and the world's most cantankerous basic art program.
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Last week, I visited the lava planet Mustafar, infiltrated an Imperial base as a stormtrooper, battled alongside the cantankerous droid K-2SO, and collected data on a piece of secret Imperial cargo that could have far-reaching ramifications for the fate of the galaxy.
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It is only the whimsical, cantankerous, the eccentric critic, or those who refuse the occasion for such distinctions, who would say that any literary work by a woman, marvelous as these may be, is on a level with the very greatest accomplishments of men.
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"She is, in my view, the best speaker I've ever seen," said David Obey, the cantankerous former Democratic congressman from Wisconsin and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, who served under eight different speakers, including Pelosi, over the course of his 42-year congressional career.
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Harlan Ellison, a furiously prolific and cantankerous writer whose science fiction and fantasy stories reflected a personality so intense that they often read as if he were punching his manual typewriter keys with his fists, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles.
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" The blame for not bringing in the stars is landing largely on the team's owner, James L. Dolan, a cantankerous sort reviled by fans weary of all the losing — he had one of them ejected from the Garden this spring for shouting, "Sell the team!
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" The blame for not bringing in the stars is landing largely on the team's owner, James L. Dolan, a cantankerous sort reviled by fans weary of all the losing — he had one of them ejected from the Garden this spring for shouting, "Sell the team!
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Image: Epic GamesUntitled Goose Game from House House was the subject of considerable hype prior to its release, for good reason: You're a cantankerous goose and it's your job to sneak around and manipulate the environment in order to ruin the non-player characters' days.
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There's also plenty of the me-against-the-world cantankerous Z-Ro charm: This is a guy who opens up a song like "Successful" with the lines Y'all thought I was gonna wear them long johns forever / now I'm a chinchilla nigga I'm ready for cold weather.
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But if Trump can find a way to broaden his voter appeal, eat into the Democratic advantage on healthcare and shine a big spotlight on the Democratic Party's cantankerous ways in Congress now that they have the House back, Trump will be a two term president.
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Through self-described daily "homilies," akin to a first-year law school class with a cantankerous professor, Judge William H. Walls' one-man show holds the courtroom captive as he spars with lawyers trying to get a word in before he erupts -- in either laughter or fury.
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Fyvush Finkel, whose homespun moniker and putty face — comic statements all their own — helped him become a mainstay of what remained of Yiddish entertainment, and who later crossed over into television as the cantankerous lawyer on the 22009s series "Picket Fences," died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan.
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He played other elderly figures, including Anthony Hopkins's ailing father in James Ivory's film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" (1993) and a cantankerous old man in the farce "Death at a Funeral" (2007), which also featured his "Game of Thrones" co-star Peter Dinklage.
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But that wasn't even Dinklage's only unaired pilot: He also played Bob Hart in Testing Bob, which looks like it was meant to be 2005's answer to All in the Family and Welcome Back Cotter (that is to say: a show about a cantankerous, broken-down high-school teacher).
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Now that the good people of Toronto have had a second to breathe after Kawhi Leonard beat the buzzer and the 40ers on Sunday night — much to the chagrin of the already cantankerous fans in Philadelphia — it's time to look ahead to what is sure to be another heavyweight series.
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Putting a brave face on a failed effort by Mr. Trump to have Russia readmitted to the world's most exclusive diplomatic club, Mr. Putin said the G-7, which ended a cantankerous summit meeting on Saturday in Canada, represented fewer people and had less economic heft than the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
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And she knew how to do it, much as she and others knew how to take care of him in those final years, wheeling him to doctor's appointments and fending off his cantankerous explosions and menu demands, like Italian pastries from his favorite bakery chosen over the phone from texted photos.
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This volume, too, can feel improvised and impressionistic, but it's glued together, collage-style, by the consciousness of the hero: an archetypal Shepard male, engaged in an Oedipal struggle with his cantankerous father, and caught in a passive-aggressive dynamic with his girlfriends, whose company he both craves and disdains.
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For all of Texas native Lyndon B. Johnson's cantankerous demeanor, he was responsible for what we now consider some of the most pivotal (and liberal) governmental accomplishments of the last 50 years: combating poverty, fighting for civil and voting rights, education reform, major conservation efforts, and more under his Great Society agenda.
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Kavanaugh, however, unabashedly reinforced white male machismo and aggressiveness such that even if one thinks that he is innocent of what Ford accused him of, he put on full display the performance of a cantankerous white male who is recklessly determined to seek revenge against those he claimed were out to get him.
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THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) Dysfunctional families aren't exactly new territory for Noah Baumbach, but this bittersweet and often just plain bitter comedy about three siblings (Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Elizabeth Marvel), healing old wounds and dealing with their cantankerous father (Dustin Hoffman), got a warm reception at Cannes in May.
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"His enormous talent and outsized heart were perfectly suited to playing the larger-than-life yellow bird who brought joy to generations of children and countless fans of all ages around the world, and his lovably cantankerous grouch gave us all permission to be cranky once in a while," the statement reads.
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"His enormous talent and outsized heart were perfectly suited to playing the larger-than-life yellow bird who brought joy to generations of children and countless fans of all ages around the world, and his lovably cantankerous grouch gave us all permission to be cranky once in a while," the statement added.
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Its filmography is disproportionately vast and includes "Bombay Beach," a 2500 documentary by Alma Har'el, from Israel, that teeters on the edge of fantasy, capturing the precarious lives of three Bombay Beach dwellers (a young boy whose parents have been in prison; a teenager fleeing gang violence in Los Angeles; and a cantankerous elderly man).
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If you're looking to catch up on the trial, here's a quick reading list: Cristian Farias on the cantankerous Judge T.S. Ellis III; Robin Givhan on Mr. Manafort's $15,000 ostrich-leather jacket; Emily Cochrane on what it's been like to cover the trial for The New York Times; and Franklin Foer's long profile of Mr. Manafort's rise and fall.
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What makes this volume worth reading, in the end, are Cott's genuinely thoughtful insights into his subject's work, and Sendak's own wise, sometimes cantankerous musings about the relationship between words and pictures in illustrated books; the artists who inspired him (including Mozart, Melville, Blake and Emily Dickinson); and the kinetic dynamic between his life and art.
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LOS ANGELES — When Robert A. Durst was asked why he had talked to the makers of "The Jinx" — the 213 HBO documentary about the suspicions that had dogged him for years over the untimely deaths of his first wife, a close confidante and a cantankerous neighbor in Texas — he said he had thought it was low risk.
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The decision to quit by Mr. Icahn, 81, comes during a week when corporate executives on Mr. Trump's special advisory board stepped down in the wake of the president's ambiguous remarks about a rally of white supremacists and right-wing hate groups in Charlottesville, Va. An outspoken and cantankerous investor, Mr. Icahn has at times shared the spotlight with the president.
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His parents struggle to arrange a visit with him; Detective Box (Bill Camp) tries to pry information out of him; cantankerous, gold-hearted defense attorney Jack Stone (John Turturro) helps him navigate the strange world of being arrested; Naz himself is freaked out by jail, pleads not guilty in front of a judge, gets denied bail, and, at the episode's end, winds up on Rikers Island.
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The election has not been a look ahead to the presidential race; it's been a chance to look at the evolution of the state electoral system, wherein conservatives have now made stretching straightforward policy proposals to the extremes a regular part of their campaign playbook, a tactic begrudgingly maneuvered by their Democratic counterparts, ever fearful of being associated with "The Squad" or that cantankerous senator from Vermont.
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For years Stephen Colbert was the model avatar for this brand of characterized pundit speak: cantankerous, illogically hilarious, exceedingly confident, and never quick to back down—it was like watching a wittier, more high-brow Bill O'Reilly pick apart the people-first evangelism of liberal DC. During The Colbert Report's run, from 2005 to 2014, the hypocrisies that fermented out of Fox News and homogenous conservative media were obvious and embarrassing.
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Who wouldn't hire a cantankerous Caravaggio double to come speak to a high school assembly about the dangers of bullying and alcohol abuse, a Frida Kahlo impersonator to cheer up teenage patients at a children's hospital, a dead ringer for Georgia O'Keeffe to put in an appearance at a flower market, or even a Jeff Koons double to spout profound-sounding platitudes at a hedge fund's general meeting?
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Though the comedy is as readily suited to live action, La Cava's animation inflects the film's basic situations with delightful impossibilities, as when a crowd of bibulous patrons 27 suddenly materializes behind, beside, and beneath a broad-shouldered barroom customer; a cantankerous drunkard ties a lamppost into a knot, 28 sending the terrified Rummy scurrying horizontally up a wall; and Harry, under the withering gaze of Rummy's wife, shrinks into his hat.
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Polyester, that mainstay of 1970s fashions, clung to male bodies as patrons sized one another up and likely chatted about such topics as Secretariat's recent Triple Crown triumph; Deliverance, a hit movie from the previous year starring the hirsute Burt Reynolds (whose arousing poster in the bar made "purty mouth" jokes a go-to); or whatever cantankerous jibe Archie Bunker, a beloved if also bigoted character, had gotten away with on All in the Family, the top-rated series of the season.
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Several were high-concept star vehicles that dealt with mismatched pairs: "Nothing in Common" (22011), a reconciliation story with Jackie Gleason and Tom Hanks as cantankerous father and resentful son; "Overboard" (22016), which proposes that a meanspirited heiress with amnesia (Goldie Hawn) can be persuaded to believe she is the wife of a carpenter (Kurt Russell); and, most famously, "Pretty Woman" (2130), a Cinderella tale — and a gigantic hit — set in contemporary Los Angeles, about a hooker with a heart of gold (Julia Roberts) and her Prince Charming, a ruthless corporate raider (Richard Gere).
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It was a paper so famously cantankerous that Norman Mailer, a co-founder, quit writing for it out of rage over a copy-editing error; a paper where writers like Jack Newfield and Alexander Cockburn took up chunks of the letters page with pointed barbs against each other's politics; where the poet and columnist joel oppenheimer wrote only in lower case; where the often feverish sentences of the dance critic Jill Johnston became an adventure in themselves; where the critic Ellen Willis properly called out the largely white male staff on their feminist failures.
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And now Vox can offer this exclusive look at the new art for season three, which leans into the idea of the cantankerous BoJack as a conflicted male antihero character on the level of Tony Soprano, Netflix's own Frank Underwood from House of Cards, and Mad Men's Don Draper: Netflix It's a comparison that at least my colleague Todd VanDerWerff finds particularly apt: This might sound ridiculous, but I promise it's not ... [BoJack Horseman]'s a strange, sad trip through the dark underbelly of fame, mixed with some of the most brilliant, caustic social commentary out there.
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