The crotchety Aunt Sarah is played by Yvette Nicole Brown.
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Young dads chide older Westside residents for being crotchety luddites.
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Woese was a rebel researcher, obscure but ingenious, crotchety, driven.
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He was getting crotchety with Genevieve, and it was upsetting her.
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"How Not to Become a Crotchety Old Man," $6.39Dear Dad (or Grandpa)...
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An uncle named Trevor Cooper plays one of the village's crotchety oddballs.
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Even her crotchety mom started giving her kudos, in her own special way.
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A talking cat lady, voiced by The Mindy Project's most crotchety nurse, Beth Grant.
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It is not always easy to distinguish between the crotchety couch pundit and Brooker himself.
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Second, it stars Al Pacino, and what crotchety uncle doesn't love "Scarface" and "The Godfather"?
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Jim Carrey plays the infamously crotchety titular creature with the polar opposite of holiday cheer.
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She will clearly be at the playful, rather than the crotchety, end of the personality spectrum.
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To me, Bernie seems like a crotchety old man who is just shouting all the time.
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I don't know when I turned into a crotchety old man at 30, but damn those kids.
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What does it take to soften the soul of Simon Cowell, America's Got Talent's resident crotchety judge?
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There are also magical ice powers, trolls, a snowman, a crotchety ice harvester, and an evil prince.
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And he's doing so loudly, unconventionally, and with a wonky, crotchety nerdiness so uncool it's become completely cool.
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"No, no, that didn't happen ... I wouldn't just sit around waiting for you," the crotchety actor insisted to Lucas.
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In late May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a crotchety phone argument about trade with President Donald Trump.
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He helped Bernie become the lovable, crotchety character whose fame spilled way over the boundaries of late-night comedy.
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Myths about older people — that they are disconnected or crotchety — are perpetuated in the news media and our culture.
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"What a variety of people called to be saints, crotchety, giddy, cranky ones, bibulous ones," Ms. Day said presciently.
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I remember one time, on my knees, cleaning under desks and being abused by some crotchety old cooking editor.
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Man, I am sounding like a crotchety old man... You remade Cohen's 1977 album Death of a Ladies Man.
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Peter Dunning, who sports a beard and a crotchety, rugged individuality, lives and farms on 187 acres in Vermont.
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It had become crotchety with a bad battery life, and the recharge cable wouldn't stay stuck without some serious coaxing.
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Chalamet will (obviously) play dreamy boy next door Laurie Laurence, and Streep is attached to play wealthy, crotchety Aunt March.
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She charms the pants off everyone, from crotchety club owners to her fellow shopgirls to seminal 1960s urbanist Jane Jacobs.
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Grumpy: Nick Offerman The former Ron Swanson has just the right crotchety-yet-lovable personality to pull off the job.
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Crotchety, cackling Sophie is a gem of a protagonist, the heroine of a fairy tale who thinks she's the witch.
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Rather, he is a genial if crotchety fellow, so confident of his genius that he doesn't have to shout about it.
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Even crotchety old Penge shows himself to be a secret softie, helping the chef's romantic endeavors and soothing Brodie's crushed heart.
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That second notebook revealed Ivan as a quick-witted, rather crotchety bachelor who liked playing practical jokes on those around him.
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And I think there's still a crotchety class of music critics who believe that true musical talent lies mainly in songwriting ability.
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Before he settled into middle and old age as a craggy, crotchety old tobacco-chewer, Eastwood looked like a sunburned matinee idol.
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When crotchety Lord Glover balks at the idea of training girls along with boys, scene-stealing Lyanna Mormont easily shuts him down.
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The crotchety head of the committee on human rights, Mortada Mansour, has called January 25th "the worst-ever day in Egypt's history".
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In book after book, modern art and modern music are dragged into the story as an excuse to air these crotchety views.
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Set aside, for now, his crotchety-great-uncle charisma, and the idea that Mr Sanders is a major force rests on two myths.
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Once subversive comedians grow crotchety and rail against the younger generation's "PC culture" any time someone dares to challenge their own status quo.
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They are joined by Eddie, Spencer's crotchety grandfather (a delightfully dyspeptic Danny DeVito) and Eddie's estranged best pal, Milo (a warm Danny Glover).
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I know I sound like a crotchety old person, but I'm so happy that I experienced, briefly, the real power of TV before streaming.
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A crotchety woman (Bernadette Lafont) with cash-flow issues decides to follow the lead of the punks in her building and starts dealing marijuana.
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"I'm playing a crotchety old antiques store dealer who basically screws the main character out of his childhood bike and charges him $300," chuckles King.
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People have, however, made the very astute observation that Pearce is a slightly younger, hotter version of the crotchety old Scrooge they're used to seeing.
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For some reason, the pheromones didn't turn me into the type of person who's eager to climb into strange beds with strange women/crotchety retirees.
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He describes Georgia as stubborn and determined with a bit of an old man's "crotchety" streak, particularly when it's time to get up in the morning.
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" Pat Ford, a photographer and angler, said Curtis was "a crotchety old fart" back when they started fishing together, in 1975, and "he just got worse.
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Brad Dourif is also back as the crotchety Doc Cochran — he somehow survived another decade after being marked a "lunger" by the end of the series.
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Sanders has also begun showing a little more personal depth on the trail -- proving that he may be crotchety, but at least a few people love him.
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Cumberbatch just spent half a decade voicing another crotchety, non-human mountain dweller, putting his dulcet tones to work as Smaug for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit series.
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To bemoan the decline of neighborliness, the shrinking of the family and the diminishing role of religion may sound like the complaining of a crotchety old man.
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The Monet who emerges from King's pages is a sympathetic and vivid character — less the wizened patriarch of French Impressionism than a crotchety septuagenarian afflicted with toothaches.
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"The Bad News Bears" In 1976, the story of a crotchety coach turning a little league team with some of the worst players into champions played really well.
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As much as that crotchety old person thinking up equation zingers for his Sunday column wants math to be the reason these teams failed, it just isn't so.
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It condemns bullying behavior from Jenna's abusive husband and then rewards it from the nerdy suitor of another waitress and the crotchety diner owner who bankrolls Jenna's liberation.
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Mr. Guenther holds court over the small L-shaped bar, teasing patrons and telling stories from his past — charming, but in a crotchety-old-man sort of way.
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But beginning in "Late Night's" later years, he developed — unless the right word is "curdled" — into the crotchety main attraction of an eccentric, ever more self-referential psychodrama.
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After the episode aired, Pitch star Mark-Paul Gosselaar shared another mostly-nude photo, this time from the two actors who play the team's crotchety coaches: Well played, Pitch.
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Hillary Clinton, as much part of the establishment as the Washington Monument, is under pressure from Bernie Sanders, a crotchety senator from Vermont who calls himself a democratic socialist.
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On this show's first season, the crotchety former sheriff Stan Miller (John C. McGinley) fought all sorts of demons in his tiny town, one bitter quip at a time.
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Ford is fine as the crotchety old outdoorsman, with Omar Sy and Cara Gee -- portraying the intrepid mail carriers -- the only other flesh-and-blood creatures that even register.
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Fine Line is the most adventurous and enjoyable of the One Direction members' solo efforts, and it's sure to convert even the most crotchety boy band skeptics into believers.
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Disposable vapes are as discreet and portable as regular vape pens—useful when you're hanging with your crotchety uncle—except you don't have to bother with charging batteries, thank god.
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In the show, which ran for 15 weeks on Broadway, Mr. Mulaney played George St. Geegland to Mr. Kroll's Gil Faizon, crotchety old Upper West Siders who complain about everything.
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Some fans have been saying for years that we don't see enough actual surviving anymore, and crotchety former players shake their sticks on Twitter and insist the kids these days are soft.
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HOLLY DUNLAPLondon * In "Slow Bern" (February 20th) you describe Bernie Sanders as "rickety", have him speaking in a "croaky New York whine" while giving a "crotchety" speech to students at Morehouse College.
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Originally announced as a Netflix series, the project ultimately became an anthology film featuring six stories that incorporate such familiar figures as crotchety gold prospectors, seemingly doomed outlaws and mismatched stagecoach passengers.
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When their beloved, and incontinent, German shepherd has to clean up her act or face eviction by the family's crotchety landlord, the siblings seek to keep intact what little family they have.
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The same goes for Drew and his pals, who are very much stereotypical old men in a movie (possessed of sage wisdom, crotchety, prone to doing ridiculous things, etc.) but also not perfect.
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He will frequently interrupt his guests mid-flow (listeners inevitably take to Twitter to lament the interruption of a female contributor), often seems crotchety and occasionally ties himself in knots with his questions.
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Justice Scalia might be less tempered and he's certainly ruder than ever, but, judging by his opinions and his public appearances, his crotchety character does not seem to stem from an intellectual decline.
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The brilliant writing helps, but there's something more: His love for nature is profound, a sign that deep currents swirl beneath his crotchety surface, pulling the reader into the vortex of his emotions.
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These two crotchety oldsters — the alter egos of the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney — will regale audiences with complaints about popular culture and celebrations of tuna salad, under the direction of Alex Timbers.
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NEARLY four years ago Bernie Sanders, the crotchety, democratic-socialist senator from Vermont who came surprisingly close to winning the Democratic presidential nomination last year, introduced a bill to provide universal government-run health care.
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Move Mirror hasn't made the social rounds yet, but it's only a matter of time before it's as a big as a photo of you next to a crotchety old lady from the sixteenth century.
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Wilderpeople starts to look like a familiar story about a crotchety old fart and a plucky young orphan who make each other's lives better, after some mismatched-buddy jousting and a series of big calamities.
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It's a good development, giving Mr. Whately something to play besides crotchety but sneakily hip old age, and it livens up the mysteries, which are as hard to follow and as campily gothic as ever.
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When confronted with toxic behavior, whether it's coming from a crotchety stranger, a grouchy coworker, or a snappish friend, here are some tried and true methods that smart people use to effectively handle rude people.
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MICHAEL ARKINToronto For months you have written off Bernie Sanders, consistently using punchy language to describe him as "crotchety" or a "septuagenarian", even though he has only a few years on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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The character was a nearly blind old man, and the best Magoo cartoons balanced jokes about Magoo's crotchety nature with jokes about how he couldn't see very well, so he was always stumbling into dangerous situations.
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Guillaume said he was sensitive about not playing his character as a racial stereotype and was pleased that Benson evolved from being a butler to a political power player - albeit one that retained the same crotchety attitude.
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To Kevin Tapia, his longtime next-door neighbor Joseph James DeAngelo appeared to be a "crotchety old man" who was "a little bit different," with a pristine front yard and a tendency to boil over at others.
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There's Dwight Schrute, I mean, Rainn Wilson, Adam Pally of Mindy Project and Happy Endings fame, Great News' resident crotchety old man John Michael Higgins, and Ron Livingston, who's best known at That Guy From Office Space.
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A young man seeks firsthand memories from black veterans of World War II. The story follows standard conventions: The crotchety vets are reluctant to share, yet the youngster persists and discovers a story both heartbreaking and inspiring.
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Much of his support clearly reflected a rallying effort by centrist voters who decided that given a choice between extremes, they would rather see a crotchety but familiar left-winger in the presidency than a bombastic, unpredictable nationalist.
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The admonishments of their crotchety bus driver Wolfgang (also performed by Mr. Bormann), who lectures his passengers about punctuality and keeping the bus clean, are just a droll prelude to their disastrous arrival in their first stop, Dresden.
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The crotchety routine seemed to work—as it must, and quickly, if Mr Sanders is to win over the black voters who will be decisive in the string of imminent southern primaries, beginning with South Carolina's on February 27th.
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Penick is a terrible name-dropper, but once you forgive him for all the mentions of golf legends like Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw and what they learned from him, his prose hums along at a grandfatherly, crotchety pace.
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In May 1914, Alexander Graham Bell delivered a commencement address to some high school students in Washington, DC. The 67-year-old inventor of the telephone gave a peculiar speech—a crotchety ode to observation, measurement, and gumshoe curiosity.
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On Wednesday night's The Late Show, Colbert unveiled his Bernie Sanders impression: Larry David's attempts may have gotten more viral burn (sorry), but his joke is that Bernie Sanders is an old school, crotchety New Yorker—just like Larry David!
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Reflected in the vast crowds that have flocked to hear the crotchety senator from Vermont, and the vaster sums he has raised—over $210m so far, mostly in donations of less than $30—it suggests that America's democracy remains vigorous.
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It was a small gathering hosted by Major League Baseball that points toward a possible future for fandom that's exciting and fascinating, all while bringing out the crotchety old tech journalist in me that's hidden not too far below the surface.
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My brother-in-law, Bob, might get crotchety every so often, but when he snaps at Lisa for, say, balancing a glass of grape juice on the arm of a white sofa, we usually think, Well, she kind of deserved it.
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She doesn't have to endure the same degree of victimization as the characters Ms. Grier played, but she has problems: luridly edited flashbacks to her military service; a crotchety dad (Mykelti Williamson) who's starting to confuse her with her dead mother.
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Her crotchety neighbor, Alfie (the always entertaining Tom Wilkinson), growls at her about the "unmitigated eco-apocalypse" that used to be a garden, but then again, he growls at everyone, including Vernon (Andrew Scott), the young man who prepares his meals.
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You don't want to become a stereotype of a crotchety octogenarian, proselytizing about the Good Old Days when people just talked to each other goddammit, and when you didn't need to remember all of these goddamn buttons to just send a simple message.
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The piece is written from the perspective of a crotchety elderly man named Eugene Mullins, who has both a bone to pick with some ghettotech-slinging, loudness-prone teens and troublemakers, as well as the knowledge needed to back it all up.
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That wintry tale remains hot with comic aggression, and Nicholson, noisily potent, reminds you of Cagney; Cranston, in "Last Flag Flying," seeks out the same terrain, but his crudeness is more of a crotchety act, and the journey concludes on a glum conservative note.
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In the very first episode of Netflix's "GLOW," Ruth (Alison Brie), a struggling actress, auditions for an all-ladies wrestling show directed by Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron), a crotchety, crude and jaded filmmaker with a string of low-budget exploitation flicks to his name.
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Julian Dennison stars as a fat, lonely Maori kid regarded as a juvenile delinquent both before and after he goes on the lam through the bush with his adoptive father (Sam Neill), a crotchety loner who regards his new ward as a pain in the ass.
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But this seal of authenticity is the key to the Bernie brand, the idea that what the public sees — the crotchety impatience; the refusal to moderate or change; the dandruff-flecked-sport-coat-crooked-specs-flyaway-hair blur of the man — is the genuine, unmediated Bernie.
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LIVING IN AMERICA: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, HARLEM AND MODERN HOUSING In the gallery's new location, part of the university's expansion into Harlem, this exhibit correlates the crotchety architect's proposals for developments of single-family homes with the rise of the public housing tower in New York. Sept. 220–Dec.
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"After spending a lifetime with my sister @scotlan [Scotty Goldbeck], her home now contained a baby and another on the way and Bowie's crotchety old self wouldn't condone it so she came to live with me, and what started as a tentative guardianship became a full scale obsession," Dunham continued.
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And that is probably due, in large part, to the fact that Aunt March isn't exactly a fully developed character in the book — her main involvement in the book is being wealthy, crotchety, picking favorites among the March sisters, and, ultimately, dying, so Jo can inherit her home and get married.
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Thanks to the teen melodrama boom of the early 90s, everyone knows what an American high school looks like: glamorous, fashionable teens smoking Virginia Slims out of bathroom windows, 40-minute passing periods where someone gets stuffed into a locker, crotchety teachers threatening to keep students in detention all summer.
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Mikey Day, an SNL staff writer since 2013, has broken out, with several high-profile impressions (Donald Trump Jr., Paul Ryan) and dazzling performance showcases — like this one alongside host Felicity Jones, in which he plays a crotchety geezer whose poor health and ill temper cause public disturbances with every move he makes.
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In a characteristically persuasive Jezebel post about Talese, Jia Tolentino suggested giving less weight to crotchety comments: [I]t's also arguable, and I'd argue it, that part of removing old men like Gay Talese from their positions of extreme prominence is caring less about the dumb, ungenerous, anachronistic things they tend to say.
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The episode started out with some deliciously black humor, as Arya Stark impersonated Walder Frey (the crotchety old traitor she killed in the Season 6 finale) to poison all of his remaining family members in revenge for their part in the Red Wedding, which killed Arya's mother, brother, and a whole heap of their allies.
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The Italian baritone Ambrogio Maestri sang his first Don Pasquale, bringing his powerhouse voice and larger-than-life presence to that touchstone role, a crotchety old bachelor in mid-19th-century Rome who, fed up with Ernesto, his footloose nephew and heir, foolishly decides to disinherit the young man and to take a wife.
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And they're not afraid to give it to us straight: "I hate to sound old and crotchety, but I'd have to say about 90% of [on-trend] styles are about guaranteed to not have a very long shelf life in the skin," says Nikki Simpson, a White Plains, NY-based artist with six years of tattooing under her belt.
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The main device employed by director Bharat Nalluri and writer Susan Coyne, however, involves the periodically blocked Dickens taking occasional dictation from his characters, particularly the crotchety figure of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer, pulling a holiday twofer with his late addition to "All the Money in the World"), who seems to delight in mocking the author's setbacks.
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The house is a hodgepodge of types: John Malkovich is Douglas, the crotchety neighbor whose only priority is himself; Lil Rel Howery ("Get Out") is Charlie, a supermarket employee who just so happens to be writing a novel about the end of humanity; and Tom, Trevante Rhodes ("Moonlight") is the strapping, sensitive war vet who connects with Malorie.
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Plus, for some reason Bella's sister Kate, the amazing ballerina Bella has spent her whole life trying to emulate, is constantly referenced but not actually seen until the end of the movie, given less screen time than the crotchety old guy Bella serves pie to at the diner where she works (I'll call him Murray, because if that's not his name it might as well be).
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