And a groggy child may actually be crankier and harder to console.
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At 70 he's what he was at 40 in crankier and bulkier form.
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The Conners are older and crankier, and their problems have shifted with the times.
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And you're likely getting just the tiniest bit crankier with each new birth announcement on Facebook.
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Wolfe turned crankier in his later years and works, and his high standards sometimes bled into snobbism.
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He's a different comic: crankier, older, the kind of guy who says he doesn't understand the younger generation.
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The longer the Senate stays in town — particularly at the end of the year — the crankier senators get.
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This, of course, has only made those cranky dudes crankier, and now they want their own men-only screenings.
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CreditCreditJim Goldberg/Magnum, for The New York Times Neil Young is crankier than a hermit being stung by bees.
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CreditCreditJim Goldberg/Magnum, for The New York Times Neil Young is crankier than a hermit being stung by bees.
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Just like the cold winter weather can make people feel more withdrawn, summer weather can also disrupt your mood and make you crankier.
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We were all crankier than we usually are but it was fun, because you're there with that one thing that brought you together.
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Then there are crankier critics who will point out that driverless talking cars just aren't terribly interesting, and can be a little goofy.
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Mid-level employees at the company were getting both crankier and more empowered, and critics everywhere were arguing that Facebook's tools fostered tribalism and outrage.
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Sanders was making the rounds of delegation breakfasts, a grueling regimen that would make any politician cranky and a cranky politician (like Bernie) even crankier.
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Hughes has decided to go by her old name, but dear Lord, could the Crawleys have been any crankier about having to address her as Mrs. Carson?
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Yes, a new mom is bound to be a sleepier, more forgetful, slightly crankier — and, if she's a birth mother, a sore and waddling and possibly pee-sneezing — version of her former self.
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Of course Shaft is crankier as a sixty-something than he was 20 years ago, and of course a new generation would take a more technological approach to problems that were solved in the 1970s with shoe-leather and shootouts.
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Today, as Mr. Kasich makes comity a centerpiece of his long-shot bid for the Republican nomination, they describe his candidacy as an exercise in remarkable self-restraint that has managed to keep his crankier instincts mostly out of sight.
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Presumably those people are still angry about it—your crankier baseball cranks tend more or less to freeze in their respective aggrieved rictuses, if only because anything less would be an Unprincipled Betrayal—but everyone else has more or less moved on and accepted all the free, extra, notionally meaningful baseball that the extended postseason has given us.
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According to Frank Miller, the idea to create Carrie Kelley was sparked by a conversation of him with superhero comics veteran John Byrne while they were flying to an Ohio comic convention. When Miller told Byrne he was writing a Batman story featuring an old and crankier Batman, Byrne recommended him to make Robin a girl and drew him a sketch. Miller liked the concept so much and ultimately included it in The Dark Knight Returns.
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