The pair ventures often into free improvisations: playfully dyspeptic, scattered, opaque.
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Osborne's work doesn't stint on the dyspeptic, and his bitchiness crackles still.
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These days, Penn Station is prone to leaving most travelers feeling dyspeptic.
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Mr. Alda plays the dyspeptic, pre-politically correct Uncle Pete, who tends bar.
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A steady, low-grade, dyspeptic irony keeps Bissell at the surface of his subject.
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It's what we do with the dyspeptic feeling that distinguishes us from non-poets.
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And it brought together dewy-eyed adolescents, not dyspeptic acolytes of the Heritage Foundation.
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The dyspeptic amusement "Mojave" opens with a snapshot of Hollywood narcissism at its most unconscious.
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Mr Trump was dyspeptic, defensive and visibly irritated by press questions about his latest controversial tweets.
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A violinist blew into his instrument; brass players removed their mouthpieces; a tuba made dyspeptic blares.
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It's lousy with them, though we chromosomally dyspeptic pundits prefer to shake our heads and sigh.
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Much of the current growling on the right about the "establishment" and "elites" is dyspeptic and counterproductive.
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The celebrated filmmaker Errol Morris has a new documentary — and candid remarks — about Donald Trump's dyspeptic strategist.
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That failure — along with Trump's dyspeptic personality — is why the GOP has so little national support; 15.
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But the dyspeptic persona Mr. Black deploys in his full-length act is less in-your-face intense.
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Mr. Milland, who also directed the film, plays the paterfamilias with a dyspeptic bossiness appropriate to his dual capacity.
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So what if Trump said that he would "love to see a shutdown" over immigration in a dyspeptic pique?
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I encountered my own name on Knott's blog around 2006, after I'd published a rather puerile and dyspeptic omnibus review.
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Yet we still seem allergic to civil discourse—and just plain civility—which could lift us out of our dyspeptic tantrums. . . .
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That's the question plaguing the dyspeptic Mr. Black as he takes on socialism, mental illness policies and the campaigns of Donald.
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U.S. stocks took their steepest drop in eight months as dyspeptic investors continued to digest trade tensions and rising interest rates.
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After being called up to duty, Catrin is paired with Tom Buckley (Sam Claflin), a dyspeptic screenwriter who nonetheless grasps her talent.
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Obama spent much of his time outlining the progress of the country on his watch and contrasting it with Trump's dyspeptic declinism.
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" In Kristol's view, neoconservatism was "hopeful, not lugubrious; forward-looking, not nostalgic; and its general tone is cheerful, not grim or dyspeptic.
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The character's name is Ernst Toller, he's played by a dyspeptic Ethan Hawke, and he isn't an ecological radical when the film starts.
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Progressive activists hold a dyspeptic attitude toward him, and there are broader concerns among Democrats about his age and tendency to make gaffes.
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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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In O'Brien's 1941 novel "The Poor Mouth," the narrator is a kind of dyspeptic David Copperfield who finds himself in a Gaeltacht memoir.
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One of the pleasures of Ms. Moyle's biography is reading once again — there have been many biographies of Turner — about this painter's dyspeptic side.
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In that show Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant stayed comfortably at home in Britain while their dyspeptic puppet, Karl Pilkington, did the actual traveling.
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The show ran from 1999 to 20163 and won 29 Emmys — including one for Schiff, who played dyspeptic White House communications director Toby Ziegler.
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In our dyspeptic political age, Virginia can remind America how we ought to behave in a truly awful situation, even if the results are imperfect.
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Yet a story this reliant on a deeply dyspeptic view of today's young men requires a lead with considerably more charisma and skills than Mr. Bowman.
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General Benson is Mr. Rickman's final screen performance, and it is a great one, suffused with a dyspeptic world-weary understanding of war and human nature.
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If it's possible for a woman to live convincingly as a man, even one as alcoholic and dyspeptic as Abe, Koelb demonstrates precisely how it's done.
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J.P. On this splendidly dyspeptic song, Mr. Callinan, an Australian musician with a penchant for creative provocation, splits the difference between industrial clangor and disco slither.
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FOR THE past twenty years or so, social scientists have affirmed what parents think when they are at their most exasperated and dyspeptic: children make you miserable.
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THE Texas House of Representatives adjourned on August 15th, after a special legislative session that left many legislators, on both sides of the aisle, a bit dyspeptic.
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"He's got one of those minds that just irritates you, because it's like a file cabinet," said Lewis Black, the dyspeptic comic and "The Daily Show" commentator.
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It's why so many well-educated Republicans who find nothing to admire in the president's dyspeptic boorishness find even less to like in his opponents' snickering censoriousness.
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Basically a compendium of sexist jokes, the dyspeptic work was aimed at an audience of "the ordinary set of giddy-headed young men," and it was very popular.
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But whether inveighing against sugar in his tea or his life, Mr. Dyer is memorably dyspeptic: The author, much like his writing, is living to see another day.
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Von Sydow's dyspeptic intellectual speaks like an Allen mouthpiece, but he also conjures the deep hurt and rage of an older man who's lost his fountain of youth.
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By his telling, it took years for his quintet, Phalanx Ambassadors, to master the shifting time signatures, oddly overlain harmonies and dyspeptic, misdirected melodies that define its debut album.
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But Thiel has made headlines for months as the ideologically dyspeptic, openly gay billionaire from Silicon Valley who had a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National Convention.
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It took a socially awkward loner, a pair of Colorado buddies shut out by Wall Street and an embittered, dyspeptic maverick to see what most of the whole world couldn't.
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Describing himself as an optimist despite his dyspeptic view of Russia and its leaders, he said he learned long ago to never lose hope, or let officials get him down.
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And what to make of the finding that 43 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers this year are self-described socialists, prepared to select a dyspeptic and unelectable senator as their candidate?
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He seemed relaxed, even good-humored, beneath his eternally dyspeptic veneer as he reflected on the improbable arc that began with his tenure as a small-city mayor 39 years earlier.
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The first cast members were hired, including Michelle Yeoh as Captain Georgiou, Anthony Rapp as the dyspeptic science officer Lt. Stamets, and Doug Jones as the Kelpien alien crew member Lt. Saru.
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In another welcome head-fake, Jost began to set up a joke about Mitch McConnell, only to be interrupted by Murphy, playing his dyspeptic version of Gumby, the venerable clay-animated character.
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"General Benson is Mr. Rickman's final screen performance, and it is a great one, suffused with a dyspeptic world-weary understanding of war and human nature," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.
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The season took some gorgeous existential leaps, particularly in the second half, but had it stuck entirely to the P.O.V. of BoJack, a dyspeptic, near-suicidal know-it-all, it might have felt airless.
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For all that he obviously could be mean-spirited, dyspeptic, and even downright violent to some writers, I never saw this side of him and neither did most of the people I've talked to since.
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These celebrations of Turgenev are taking place because no matter how dyspeptic Turgenev may have been at times in judging his own country and its people, he was indisputably Russian and one of its great writers.
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A young man with Noel Coward-ish wit (Noah Galvin) puts on drag to become a dyspeptic Duchess with indigestion, while a chilled-out gal named Tabatha (Nkeki Obi-Melekwe) is, inevitably, the grinning Cheshire Cat.
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It tracks the gradual unravelling of the dyspeptic, middle-aged lost soul Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a telesalesman who is unmoored first by his hate-filled household and then by his lust for his daughter's kittenish friend.
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"Switzerland" allows for a contrast between this most famously neutral of European locales and the ceaselessly downbeat, dyspeptic Highsmith, who holds forth on any number of subjects — all of which prompt her derision or scorn or worse.
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America is living through a fractured fairy tale, in the grip of a lonely and uninformed mad king, an arrogant and naïve princeling, a comely but complicit blond princess and a dyspeptic, dystopian troll under the bridge.
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The tactic of turning Sanders fans' often dyspeptic attitude about the Democratic Party establishment to their advantage has worked for Republicans in the past, but Sanders has no intention of letting them run that playbook this week.
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You have to appreciate Jurges for taking him on in the first place, because whereas the shortstop was officially 5'11" and 175 pounds, Mage was 19733'3," built like Charlie-27, and had the face of a dyspeptic bulldog.
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Trump slashed and burned his way through the second debate, taking no prisoners, loosing the dogs of war, hovering over Hillary Clinton like some dyspeptic Mafia boss, and threatening to put her behind bars if he becomes president.
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One other mouth, actually: that of his father, played by Harris Yulin, a dyspeptic fellow who, years back, groomed his son for a career in the majors, then messed it up for him in a tragic, catastrophic fashion.
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Michelle Goldberg Although I'm a squishy-hearted liberal, I have a soft spot for dyspeptic reactionaries like H. L. Mencken and V. S. Naipaul, men — they're almost always men — who speak to a dark, misanthropic corner of my soul.
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Boris (James Hyndman) is a dyspeptic man of means whose wife, Beatrice (Simone-Elise Girard), is afflicted with a sketchily defined melancholia that has rendered her unresponsive; she has taken a leave from her post in the Canadian cabinet.
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After his identity and his physical condition became public, however, online critics — "I am not sure whether they are real people," he said — have pointed to his disabilities as the reason for his critical and often dyspeptic view of Russia's condition.
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In spite of his dyspeptic start in Polynesia, and in spite of his dark and uneventful excursion to Norway, he shows himself throughout this collection (and in much of his work generally) to be a man who is quite capable of being overwhelmed.
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It was hardly distinguished, but it had its moments, largely because of the comic interactions between the outrageous, finely aged characters Madea and Joe (both played by Mr. Perry) and their fellow dyspeptic senior citizens, Hattie (Patrice Lovely) and Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis).
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Bitterly dyspeptic in the Bernhard way, the critic has contempt for artists generally and begrudges Tintoretto, too, but finds reliable solace in the company of an impressive man who appears annoyed by an interruption and beset by some deeper malaise—a disappointment, perhaps, with life.
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I had covered a year and a half of a presidential campaign that was so dyspeptic and vulgar and ugly that I had lost the sense of what it was like to be surrounded by a sea of people who were rooting for something rather than against.
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But the dyspeptic diatribes came in spurts, and the president whipsawed between frustration and freewheeling meetings and golf outings, including one on Saturday with the president of the P.G.A. and the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to two people familiar with his playing partners.
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But the dyspeptic diatribes came in spurts, and the president whipsawed between frustration and freewheeling meetings and golf outings, including one on Saturday with the president of the P.G.A. and the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to two people familiar with his playing partners.
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That he does it all with schoolboy glee makes him that much more viscerally loathsome — Mr. Rheon conceived Ramsay as a mash-up of Heath Ledger's unhinged Joker and Dennis the Menace, he said, and added a bit of the swagger of Liam Gallagher, the dyspeptic former Oasis singer.
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Whether he's a twenty-something Christian vegan straightedge in the midst of drugged-out teenage raves, or a rave star who makes a dyspeptic punk record record (143's Animal Rights) that nobody else likes and plays rock shows nobody attends, his memories and insights are pin-sharp.
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In a showstopping monologue at the top of the second act, Red's speaking voice — a dyspeptic rasp, as if her vocal cords have been gnawed through by rats — suggests someone who has seen the unspeakable, and takes an already eerie performance by Nyong'o to a darker, unearthly realm.
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"Figures in a Landscape," his new collection of essays and magazine articles, doesn't completely solve the puzzle of his dyspeptic pose, but it goes a long way toward dispelling the image of Theroux as a long-suffering misanthrope setting out on the rails and the roads yet again.
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At one end, we have obsessive adventurers like Thomas Manning, who sneaked across the border from India into Tibet in 1811 armed with little more than a waist-length, jet-black beard and a dyspeptic Chinese interpreter — and yet managed to engineer an audience with the 6-year-old Dalai Lama.
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And Henry Adams, who wrote within earshot of power his dyspeptic chronicle of failure and disappointment, suggested to Lowell how "his and our manic-depressive New England character" might be projected onto landscape and history, in the way that the region's extremes of bleakness and abundance were internalized as emotional poles.
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If you spend a lot of time consuming online political commentary, you'll find that most of the people who clearly prefer Democrats to Republicans but are nonetheless persistently dyspeptic about the Democratic Party leadership and skeptical of the Democratic Party as an institution are very far to the left ideologically.
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The dyspeptic and unambitious Nick (Jake Johnson), the smooth-talking would-be Lothario Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and the walking non-sequitur Winston (Lamorne Morris) formed a great comedy trio, and Deschanel had fun chemistry with all of them — though her romantic chemistry with Johnson became the engine that fueled the show's second (and best) season.
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Viewers were engaged by its distinctive if unusual threesome of announcers: Howard Cosell, a dyspeptic, easy-to-dislike commentator best known for boxing and his relationship with Muhammad Ali; Don Meredith, the mellow and mischievous former quarterback who could drift into song or wit; and Frank Gifford, the handsome football hero and straight man who tried to tame the other two.
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In the 21s, Indian Key was the seat of Dade County, site of a bowling alley and an inn promising "one of the most favorable situations in the United States for persons who are suffering from pulmonary, dyspeptic and numerous chronic diseases, and obliged to seek refuge from the chill blasts of a northern winter," according to a sign posted on the site.
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When he writes to a friend, soon after his marriage, of what it is like to lie in a dry bed after years of sleeping on a pile of damp, mildewed straw, and when, elsewhere, he speaks of the surprise of turning over in bed and seeing a pair of pigtails on the pillow next to his, your heart softens toward this dyspeptic man.
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Abe Vigoda, the sad-faced actor who emerged from a workmanlike stage career to find belated fame in the 19963s as the earnest mobster Tessio in "The Godfather" and the dyspeptic Detective Phil Fish on the hit sitcom "Barney Miller," died on Tuesday morning in Woodland Park, N.J. He was 94, having outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure.
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Mr. Gottfried also oversaw the roughly two-year research and writing period during which Mr. Chayefsky created "Network," his magnum opus, drawn from visits to the newsrooms of ABC, CBS and NBC and the author's own manifold fears of rampant corporate integration, social alienation, domestic terrorism and the power of TV. In an affectionate gesture that illustrated his dyspeptic sense of humor, Mr. Chayefsky named his anchorman character — who memorably declares in an on-air outburst, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore" — Howard, for Mr. Gottfried.
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Every chance-comer was instantaneously gauged as dyspeptic or eupeptic, friend or foe.
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Electron micrograph of Helicobacter pylori possessing multiple flagella (negative staining) In a 2005 study, researchers investigated the accuracy of Helicobacter pylori diagnosis in dyspeptic patients using salivary anti-H. pylori IgG levels. They determined that saliva testing for H. pylori antibodies “could be used reliably for screening dyspeptic patients in general practice.” That same year Tiwari, et al.
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Obnoxio was portrayed as a slovenly, vulgar, cigar-puffing middle-aged man in a torn and dirty clown suit, with a dyspeptic and cynical attitude.
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William Henry Beecher (January 15, 1802 – June 23, 1889) was a dyspeptic minister who was called "The Unlucky" because misfortune attended all his ventures.Time Magazine, Monday, April 2, 1934.
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Inspired by his observation of a dyspeptic diner blending wheat with cream, he developed a method of processing wheat into strips that were formed into pillow-like biscuits.Snodgrass, Mary Ellen, Encyclopedia of Kitchen History, London: Routledge, 2004, p. 180. The wheat is first cooked in water until its moisture content reaches about 50%.
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Van Patten remarked to a correspondent at the time that his re-election related to the party's "difficulty in getting anyone who could write correct English" and was made possible by the absence at the convention of what he called the "thick-headed, dyspeptic element."Phillip Van Patten to George Schilling, Jan. 12, 1882. Original in Schilling Papers, Illinois State Historical Library.
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In his review for AllMusic, François Couture states "Moving, intricate, and immediate, this album marks a paradigm shift in her work as a composer, toward a much more personal voice." The Down Beat review by Greg Burk notes "Though the intent is to prod rather than please, Mitchell’s dyspeptic horn harmonies possess a coarse beauty."Burk, Greg. Xenogenesis Suite review.
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Joshua Corin is an American author and screenwriter. He is known for writing the novel Nuclear Winter Wonderland and a screenplay for the novel. Nuclear Winter Wonderland follows the story of an underachieving college kid, Adam Weiss, whose sister Anna is kidnapped by a lunatic nuclear terrorist. Adam sets off for the terrorist, teaming up with a dyspeptic ex-mob thug and a Spanish-speaking female clown.
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Two of them were portraits of West, one in extreme closeup, with mismatched eyes and four sets of teeth. Another showed his head, crowned and decapitated, placed sideways on a white slab, impaled by a sword. There was also a painting of a dyspeptic ballerina in a black tutu, a painting of the crown and the sword by themselves in a grassy landscape. Condo made five covers, all which were included with the album's purchase.
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Yet Patten did not remain silent, and struck back in a Legislative Council meeting, publicly ridiculing Cradock as a "dyspeptic retired ambassador". From 1992 to 1997, both Cradock and Patten criticised each other on many occasions, which placed them on increasingly bad terms. Although Cradock was invited by the British government to attend the ceremony of the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong on 30 June 1997, Cradock felt that they would not like him to be there and turned down the invitation.
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Sellers and Ekland made one other film together, The Bobo (1967). Also featured are Akim Tamiroff as Okra, the mastermind of the heist in Cairo; Martin Balsam as Tony's dyspeptic agent, Harry; Maria Grazia Buccella as Okra's voluptuous accomplice; Lydia Brazzi as Mama Vanucci; and Lando Buzzanca as the chief of police in Sevalio. Simon recalled the Italian supporting cast learned their English lines phonetically. Tamiroff had been working on and off for Orson Welles playing Sancho Panza in Don Quixote, a film Welles never finished.
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Enderby is a dyspeptic British poet, 56 years old, and The Clockwork Testament is an account of his last day alive. The day in question is a cold one in February. He spends it in New York City, where for the past several months he's been working as a visiting professor of English literature and composing a long poem about St. Augustine and Pelagius. Enderby's present situation arose from a chance encounter with an American film producer in Tangiers, where he owns a bar.
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Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone described the song as "an elegantly wasted house ballad, with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver as dyspeptic diva crooning under the amber waves of drank and teenage Chicago rapper Chief Keef playing the sad gangsta." Kyle Kramer of Complex named "Hold My Liquor" the best song of 2013. In 2018, Phil Witmer of Noisey looked back on "Hold My Liquor" and fellow Yeezus track "Black Skinhead", writing that they weren't rap, but 'rock anthems from the 25th century' and branded "Hold My Liquor" as the album's 'emotional peak'.
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The story opens on a note of pure fantasy, showing school children from the future taking a field trip through time to see the dyspeptic poet Francis Xavier Enderby while he is asleep. Enderby, a lapsed Catholic in his mid-40s, lives alone in Brighton as a 'professional' poet - his income being interest from investments left to him by his stepmother. Enderby composes his poetry whilst seated on the toilet. His bathtub, which serves as a filing cabinet, is almost full of the mingled paper and food scraps that represent his efforts.
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Some guests would spend the entire summer at the resort, paying $40 per month for room and board to escape from the heat of the south. The spa's water was advertised as providing a cure for a great range of health conditions. John Jennings Moorman, who spent several weeks at the springs in the summer of 1854, noted that the waters as analyzed by Professor Mitchell contained sodium chloride, magnesium sulfates, lime, soda, and lime and iron carbonates. He said the waters proved effective in curing many dyspeptic depravities.
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Peter Cannon reviewing for Publishers Weekly stated "here is a rigorously constructed hard SF novel where the question is not whether humanity will reach the stars but how it will survive its own worst tendencies." Kirkus Reviews called this novel "glum, dyspeptic, and depressing." Jackie Cassada said in her review for Library Journal that "spanning more than 165 million years and encompassing the entire planet, Baxter's ambitious saga provides both an exercise in painless paleontology and superb storytelling." Evolution has been compared to Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Baxter has acknowledged Stapledon's influence.
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Patrick O'Connor wrote of the 2003 Orange Tree production, "What is delightful in the complicated plot, with its insistence on the mercenary side of love and friendship, is that many of the lines have a contemporary ring to them and the situations seem to foreshadow the theatre of the absurd". Reviewing the 2004 Off-Broadway production, Marilyn Stasio wrote in Variety, "a sparkling period piece … the dialogue is a pure gift from a brilliant dramatist and thoroughly dyspeptic man".Stasio, Marilyn. "Off Broadway: Engaged", Variety, 10 May 2004, p.
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Born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Latvian Jewish immigrants, Ace grew up wanting to write, and as the editor of his high school newspaper, he took on his first nom de plume, Asa Goodman. Ace worked as a roller skating messenger for Montgomery Ward while he studied journalism at Kansas City Polytechnic Institute. He also wrote a weekly column called "The Dyspeptic" for the school's newspaper. After working at the post office and a local haberdashery to support his mother and sisters after his father's death, he became a reporter and columnist for the Kansas City Journal-Post.
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My friends, happily rooting for Stan Musial, Red Schoendienst, and other great Redbirds, grew up cheerfully convinced that the world is a benign place, so of course, they became liberals. Rooting for the Cubs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, I became gloomy, pessimistic, morose, dyspeptic and conservative. It helped out of course that the Cubs last won the World Series in 1908, which is two years before Mark Twain and Tolstoy died. But that means, class of 1998, that the Cubs are in the 89th year of their rebuilding effort, and remember, any team can have a bad moment.
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But, if justice is to prevail in the rules of admission, the woman who possesses a brain of fifty-six ounces is entitled to precedence over the great majority of males whose brains weigh only forty-nine and a half. Should the environment be more favorable to the woman whose brain-weight is forty-four ounces, she can claim the advantage over the larger male brain whose environment is less favorable. Then, too, the applicants for entrance must be subjected to the test of an eating-match, and the dyspeptic must consent to suicide or rejection. All this must be done, for, although Justice carries her scales, she is blindfolded.
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Caramanica of The New York Times wrote that it is the most tender, affectionate, spirited song on the record, "On an album full of dyspeptic relationships, it is the breath of cool, nourishing air." Jon Reyes of HipHop DX wrote that the song is "a very well thought out move, probably in hopes that it would help soften the impending criticism that Rihanna would receive from singing the pop version of makeup sex with her abusive ex-boyfriend." Reviewers also noted and praised the interpolation of Jackson's song on the track. Fountaine of The Urban Daily agreed and named is at the album's best track further stating that Jackson's 1989 single "ain’t got nothing on this ['Nobody's Business']".
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Although Cradock had retired, he joined the pro-Beijing camp, and became one of the most prominent critics of Governor Patten, censuring him for wrecking the hand-over agreement that had been agreed with the Chinese government. Cradock and Patten blamed each other publicly a number of times in the final years of British administration of Hong Kong. He once famously denounced Patten as an "incredible shrinking Governor",Hong Kong's Governor Opens New Legislature : Asia: China says it will disband the first fully elected, all- Chinese 'historic council' in 1997., Los Angeles Times , 12 October 1995 while Patten mocked him openly, in another occasion, as a "dyspeptic retired ambassador" suffering from "Craddockitis".
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In the Tate version, a different breed is curled up asleep in their manger. The idiom was also put to figurative use during the 19th century. In much the same anecdotal tradition, the print-maker Thomas Lord Busby (active 1804–37) used the title to show a dyspeptic man eyeing askance a huge dinner, while hungry beggars and an importunate dog look on, in a work from 1826. Later on Charles H. Bennett revisited the scene in his The Fables of Aesop and Others Translated into Human Nature (1857), where a dog dressed as a footman and carrying food to his master bares his teeth at the poor ox begging at the door.
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A peculiar outbreak of Nyctalopia or night-blindness affected many of the prisoners in 1806. They became severely dyspeptic and completely blind from sunset until dawn, to the extent that their fitter companions had to lead them around the camp. Various treatments were tried and failed; finally they were cured with black hellebore, given as snuff, which relieved the dyspepsia and restored their night vision within a few days.Waller, John Augustine, British Domestic Herbal, 1822, quoted in Barton, Benjamin Herbert & Castle, Thomas, The British Flora Medica; or, History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain, London, 1837; Google books online version A total of 1,770 prisoner deaths from disease were recorded during the time the prison was in operation, although the records are incomplete.
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He wrote, "Williams' images, while fantastic and fairy-taleish in their specifics, are quite the opposite in their tenor and implications." In 2008, critic Holly Myers of the Los Angeles Times described Williams' style as "unmistakable": using cartoonish forms such as human figures and anthropomorphized buildings; suggesting "rubbery agility, giddy pictorial buoyancy and an often furious sense of internally generated motion". A gallery's 2008 description of her work said it was "populated by careening forces and dyspeptic explosions," noting one work was "sci-fi and apocalyptic", an "outburst of atomic proportions". ArtsBlock at the University of California, Riverside, characterized Williams in 2014 as "a painter who uses cartoon imagery in her paintings that depict characters with riotous, bad mannered attitudes".
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Adrian Mulliner, a private detective, falls in love with Lady Millicent Shipton-Bellinger, the daughter of the fifth Earl of Brangbolton who has a horror of detectives ever since Millicent's Uncle Joe's troubles in 1928. The father insists that Millicent must marry Sir Jasper Addleton, the financier. Heartbroken, Adrian has a bad attack of dyspepsia (he suffers from the disease and it was the melancholic dyspeptic look that first attracted Millicent) and a doctor advises him that the best cure for dyspepsia is to smile. Adrian, who hasn't smiled since he was twelve ("I saw the butler trip on a spaniel and upset the melted butter all over Aunt Elizabeth"), has a sinister-looking smile that seems to say 'I know all' and causes a great deal of nervousness amongst people with something to hide.
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Also, since the film has controversial elements—including, for some reason, a lurid rape scene with Nazis and nuns—the reclusive, little-read poet has been receiving a barrage of ranting phone calls from angry citizens who are eager to denounce "his" film. Invariably, these callers (and other critics) have never read the original poem; indeed, they don't even know it exists. Enderby suffers three heart attacks over the course of the day, and succumbs to a fourth some time after midnight. Between attacks, he goes about his business: he happily works on his Pelagian poem; eats dyspeptic American food and smokes White Owl cigars; refuses an offer of sex from a female poetry student who wants him to give her an A; struggles through two lectures; appears on a smarmy talk show; and draws a sword he carries hidden in his cane to defend a middle-aged housewife from a gang of thugs on the subway.
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