His peevishness left her by default as the adult in the room.
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In truth, peevishness has its own irritating charm in books about Hollywood.
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Dr. Young posits that gorging on electronics can induce peevishness and tantrums.
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THE peevishness of the campaigning has obscured the importance of what is at stake.
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Looking over what I've just written, I'm saddened as much as annoyed by my peevishness.
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This episode startled many in the press who seem surprised to see Ivanka's peevishness and impatience.
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And any discussion of a secret plot to undercut the Clintons risked sounding like paranoia, peevishness or just an attempt to duck responsibility.
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Ms. Hayes, who, as her online bio makes clear, is always a little ticked off, underscores her peevishness with a street-wear-inflected style.
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The long-haul flight (five hours or more) offers up a special brand of hell, a smorgasbord of meltdowns, impromptu maladies and indiscriminate peevishness.
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The president's energized antagonism dulls support from people who see his antics and petty peevishness as unbecoming of someone who holds the nation's highest office.
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Mr. Bloomberg is known for occasionally indulging in fits of peevishness, once firing a city employee after spotting a game of solitaire open on his work computer.
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Or will self-absorption and free-flowing peevishness be the hallmarks of an era of domestic and global crises, stirred up by grossly uninformed perceptions of reality?
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Perhaps as interesting as the existence of the letter itself (and the peevishness of the committee chairs) is how CNN managed to get ahold of the document in the first place.
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But if Franzen's travel writing is unexceptional, it's better than his political essays, which suffer from being under-thought and over-emoted, the chief feeling often being a kind of self-absorbed peevishness.
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Leading the Smiths in the 1980s, and then in a solo career that has extended to 11 albums, Morrissey has targeted himself — his shortcomings, his rationalizations, his yearnings, his peevishness — just as often as he has savaged others.
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New York sports talk radio legend Mike Francesa shares Trump's drowsy peevishness, a passion for opaque interpersonal feuds with his similarly blowsy peers, and an abiding belief that he has never been wrong, but is finally too small-time an operator.
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He spent several "ludicrous" months trying to get Suzy to participate in "218 Up" — in which, among other ruses, he used other people's phones to call so she wouldn't know it was him — and she nevertheless bowed out, to his enduring peevishness.
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Olympic Star Adam Rippon I'd much rather live in a world reflecting the values, philanthropy, and yes intelligence of LeBron James and Don Lemon's intelligent commitment to truth and journalism than the divisive peevishness, lies, and narrow self-interest displayed by the President of the United States.
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The diagnosis is easy enough: By discounting the election results beforehand, Trump was preemptively assuming the role of a sore loser, exhibiting an irresponsible peevishness all too characteristic of his runaway narcissism and his sexism—and bringing the yahoos of the Republican base along with him.
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The film follows Allen avatar Bobby Dorfman, played for the second time (after To Rome With Love) by Jesse Eisenberg, who is particularly skilled at playing Allen's surrogate; he has a peevishness that quietly undercuts his characters' indulgence, a wink that he knows this guy's kind of full of it.
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There's nothing new about it, although the edge on it—both the vinegary peevishness of the response to the shuffling of the rank-and-file and the scalding talk of cowardice or betrayal or some other mock-heroic judgment in the response to Durant's move—is uncomfortably of this moment.
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Even allowing for the understanding that rich men, rarely subject to challenge, will not necessarily hold up ably under interrogation, Mr. Bloomberg still succeeded in surprising us with his lack of preparation, his unchecked peevishness and a hesitancy that must have embarrassed him most of all, given how thoroughly it put the viewer in the mind of middle management.
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She clashed bitterly with her husband's niece, the future Queen Anne, over who should have the best apartments in Whitehall Palace. Anne, who could herself be a formidable opponent, complained bitterly of her aunt's "peevishness" to her.
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But he soon wearied of their society, and wore their kindness thin by his querulous peevishness. It seemed, moreover, that life was intolerable to him outside Ferrara. Accordingly, he once more opened negotiations with the duke; and in February 1579 he again set foot in the castle. Alfonso was about to contract his third marriage, this time with a princess of the house of Mantua.
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The quality of Rajas () too, states the Upanishad, is a result of this interplay of overpowered elemental soul and guna, and lists the manifold manifestation of this as, "greed, covetousness, craving, possessiveness, unkindness, hatred, deceit, restlessness, mania, fickleness, wooing and impressing others, servitude, flattery, hedonism, gluttony, prodigality and peevishness". While the elemental Self is thus affected, the inner Self, the immortal soul, the inner spectator is unaffected, asserts the Upanishad.
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Ladas had some success at stud, siring the Classic winners Gorgos and Troutbeck. Another successful offspring was the gelding Epsom Lad, who won the Eclipse Stakes and the Princess of Wales's Stakes as a four-year-old in 1901. In total, he sired the winners of 196 races and £97,000 in winnings. By 1912 he had been retired from active stud duty and become extremely bad tempered: one writer said that the old stallion had "worn himself out with his restlessness and peevishness".
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As Williams grew old and frail she became more and more intolerant towards other members of the household, although this did not affect Johnson's care for her. He wrote a prayer for her in her last illness, and after her death wrote, "Her curiosity was universal, her knowledge was very extensive, and she sustained forty years of misery with steady fortitude. Thirty years and more she has been my companion, and her death has left me very desolate."Letters of Samuel Johnson, 3.74 His circle, while noting her peevishness, also acknowledged her learning and intelligence.
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Sources of humor included the eccentrics who hung around the station, Mr. Givney's peevishness, and Jerry's own ineptitude. Also, Hoban pioneered in the use of humorous signs posted here and there in the background, a motif also seen in Smokey Stover, Mad and elsewhere. And practically everyone commenting on the strip has praised Hoban for putting his characters through spectacular "takes", that is, exaggerated physical responses to surprising or disconcerting events. He specialized in what some call the "flip take", which left the character undergoing it (usually Givney) as flat on the ground as Charlie Brown after trying to kick Lucy's football.
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Chaucer, too, dealt with this attribute of acedia, counting the characteristics of the sin to include despair, somnolence, idleness, tardiness, negligence, indolence, and wrawnesse, the last variously translated as "anger" or better as "peevishness". For Chaucer, human's sin consists of languishing and holding back, refusing to undertake works of goodness because, he/she tells him/her self, the circumstances surrounding the establishment of good are too grievous and too difficult to suffer. Acedia in Chaucer's view is thus the enemy of every source and motive for work. Sloth not only subverts the livelihood of the body, taking no care for its day-to-day provisions, but also slows down the mind, halting its attention to matters of great importance.
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Testy has arranged the marriage against his niece's will, and orders her to "shake off" her "maiden peevishness" and love her husband. Millicent tries to be the obedient female at first, but she is so browbeaten by her uncle that she rebels: she sings bawdy songs to Quicksands, calls him "Chick" among other endearments, and assures him that she can bear six babies in five years — whether Quicksands is up to the task of begetting them or not. The two old men are shocked and embarrassed by her bawdry; Quicksands in particular is at a nonplus, and now feels inhibited from his wedding-night obligations. The discomfort is accentuated when the courtiers, masked and costumed as horned animals, break in with an impromptu wedding masque that strongly suggests inevitable cuckoldry.
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