In those later episodes, he's got a kind of petulance.
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All weekend, James seemed to alternate between playfulness and petulance.
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Petulance is hardly a savory sauce to spice any international gathering.
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The works' numbing regularity lacks any semblance of its former petulance.
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Pacino plays King Herod, whom he portrays with a blubbering, infantile petulance.
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The loser was Joe Biden, who struck the odd note of petulance.
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Lil Uzi Vert "Do What I Want" (Atlantic) Peak millennial petulance. 20.
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Justin Bieber is very good at singing, dancing, playing the guitar and petulance.
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It had the petulance, the defensiveness, the scattershot accusations and the clipped complaint.
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Now a similar partisan petulance seems to be turning some Democrats into spoilers.
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They were puzzled by my comment — and not a little critical of my petulance.
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Because he has convinced them that cruelty and petulance are somehow signs of strength.
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The Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, demonstrated an embarrassing petulance in the congressional gallery.
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His dominant mode is petulance, an unlikely fit for the future emperor of the galaxy.
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Early on, Lil Uzi Vert and Tyler, the Creator delivered sets full of melodic petulance.
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The past months have revealed a personality given to impetuous anger, meanness, mendacity and petulance.
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This Richard is notably effeminate and moves suddenly between sighing boredom and fits of angry petulance.
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For Marvin he's taking that reticence further, trying to find his cruelty, his petulance, his spite.
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First Marcelo kicks out at Die Wölfe midfielder Max Arnold, itself a studied act of petulance.
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Nonfiction THE POLITICS OF PETULANCE America in an Age of Immaturity By Alan Wolfe 210 pp.
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He displayed only petulance and braggadocio in response to issues that dogged him during the campaign.
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He has accumulated numerous fines for petulance and been banned for vulgar comments about another player's girlfriend.
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"Trump responds to criticism with the petulance of verbal spit wads," the editorial says at one point.
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They are free-floating phrases, clouds of childish petulance attached to the surface in torn canvas strips.
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He doesn't hide his pettiness, bury his petulance or successfully distract us from his vulgarity and bigotry.
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Through an act of utter petulance, he has done a grave disservice to American interests and alliances.
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Trump's decision was a "reckless gamble" and "an act of utter petulance," writes my colleague Roger Cohen.
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Once Garfield invites you on this quest, he spends the entire time obstructing you out of sheer petulance.
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Even if Trump isn't winning over many actual teens, he's clearly speaking their language of petulance and pettiness.
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" At the 2012 Games, he described Russian gymnasts as "divas" who are "temperamental" and exhibit "petulance to criticism.
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You can indulge their petulance and their anger and say, 'I understand,' even if you don't like it.
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Thanks to Dave Roberts' excellent decision making and Maddon's petulance, people are finally seeing what we are seeing.
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Trump's public petulance about being mistreated is in fact a public appeal, in order to rehabilitate his brand.
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Pompeo has shown the world that partisanship, petulance and misogyny will be his legacy at the State Department.
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It would seem, however, that the hater-in-chief's team can't quite translate his petulance to the digital realm.
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This is important to remember, because your kids are almost guaranteed to react with petulance, defiance and/or guilt provocation.
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And at the root of many of his conflicts with the buying public is his petulance and very thin skin.
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Trump, for all his bullying petulance, has come closest to being that politician, which is why millions of Americans support him.
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But his turn to right-wing petulance, with a bow to kooky comparisons of Obamacare to slavery, considerably soiled his reputation.
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But if he does, we are getting a pretty good idea of how it will happen – with an epic outburst of petulance.
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"This Jimmy boy looked like an adolescent, like my kid brother, with surprising maturity and great swaths of infantile petulance," she wrote.
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Aside from the petty "they started it"-ness that mirrors the petulance of the GOP side, I don't think this is true.
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The teenage petulance of Cecily Cardew is expressed in squeaky, stratospheric lines, which the soprano Claudia Boyle sang with Barbie-like perfection.
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If Drouin gets shipped to a new home because of this petulance/brave stance, it's a landmark move and yet it isn't.
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It is a "shaggy-dog tale of wild conspiracism and male petulance," A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times.
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Most of the other allusions in this shaggy-dog tale of wild conspiracism and male petulance are not quite so blatantly meta.
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Along with so much else, Harvey's rains washed away for a time the partisan petulance that stubbornly clings to our national politics.
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The Paris St Germain player has become a synonym for petulance and he gave an example of why with 72 minutes gone.
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Some coins went airborne in a bizarre display of petulance from Daniil Medvedev, who had upset Stan Wawrinka in the first round.
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This is not to say that DiCaprio's performance isn't Oscar-worthy, but building a campaign around petulance is an insult to his acting.
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As the years progressed, you learned that petulance was wrong and grew thankful you had people to guide you through your misbegotten youth.
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One would hope that The Defenders would shy away from Danny and his petulance, but unfortunately, Iron Fist is integral to the larger plot.
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While he's keeping the pressure on, you're acting obsequious and attending to the client's every need, but you grow to secretly despise their petulance.
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His was not the petulance of a teenager but the forming confidence of a newly emerged adult, committed to doing things on his own.
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They've since seized every opportunity to raise a middle finger to the mainstream, in the process cultivating — and perhaps caricaturing — a persona of petulance.
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"I find it hard to believe that my body knew something was up before my brain did," I said, petulance creeping into my voice.
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For the president to put these men and women in such a position, simply out of petulance over congressional opposition, would be especially unconscionable.
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It's not about sex, she clarifies, but deeper things—their recording-studio alchemy, their troubled childhoods and drug abuse, and their defensive petulance towards authority.
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It's a deadly combination of self-seriousness and self-indulgence, "shocking" art cinema that's more about the obnoxious petulance of its director than anything else.
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His absence, which I suspect is more petulance than anything, leaves the country vulnerable to terrorists, illegal immigrants and any other number of unimaginable threats.
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And this man, whose meanness and petulance and childlike inadequacies have been on display for more than a year now, may become president next month.
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Ueda admits to designing Trico to feel and act like a pet, even up to the petulance that pets can have when learning new tricks.
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Recently Trump introduced a bit of personal petulance to this dynamic, suggesting that governors who aren't sufficiently deferential should be ignored by the White House.
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But between Trump's petulance, his Twitter tirades and his at times bellicose rhetoric -- often to be reversed only hours later -- no one knows what to expect.
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The disassociated urgency of the last few days must have gotten to him, because the man's feelings flipped in an instant, from enthusiasm to sheer petulance.
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In the media, Aker's duct tape protest has come to symbolize both the staunch idealism and, perhaps also, the petulance of Sanders supporters at the DNC.
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It's unclear why this new Ghostbusters—of all possible remakes, of all possible movies to be remade with a female cast—would inspire such overwhelming petulance.
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Like your typical American politician, our Peer, played with radiant petulance and inexhaustible athleticism by Mr. Ebert, is a figure of great bluster, ambition and duplicity.
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Though it had the ring of truth—most stories about Trump's petulance and incompetence do—Fire and Fury was also littered with gossip, rumor, and errors.
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My sister did desert Trump in the end, disgusted with his demeaning tweets about women and his inability to focus on issues rather than his own petulance.
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The petulance has even spread to a major doubt over whether Italy will loan France some works by the artist Leonardo Da Vinci for a commemorative exhibition.
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I was 15, a freshman in high school, and had recently decided that I wanted to get into punk music—the perfect amalgam of shitty teen petulance.
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Khan could also avoid the petulance of previous Pakistani leaders who seek to immediately undo the reforms of their predecessors as soon as they come into power.
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I once assumed this petulance could be quelled with deft application of stern-dad voice, that carefully calibrated combination of kindness, authority and, most important, implicit threat.
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Perhaps because of the format, and perhaps because of the petulance of her opponent, she did not have many opportunities to present an aspirational case for her candidacy.
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Whereas Berenson spent years working for rebels in El Salvador before moving to Peru, Leo's radicalization is improbably swift, driven in equal parts by ideology and mere petulance.
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Amid lingering feelings of petulance, Mr. Hamill traveled to London in 2014 for a table read — he jokingly calls it a "table listen" — of the "Force Awakens" script.
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Rather it is an expression of petulance that is not only unbecoming to a president but fails to advance any kind of rational American interests in such cases.
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His rudeness, petulance and arrogance toward our closest allies have resulted in a schism in this important group of democracies, one that Mr. Trump's successor will have to mend.
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Additional credit, of course, goes to the actor, Andrew Long, who at various points approximates Mr. Trump's characteristic shrug-smirk-wince and his familiar seesaw of aggression and petulance.
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In "Beyond The Family Album" (1979), she exhumes a photographic archive of her childhood and adolescence, annotating the relentlessly affirmative images with related memories of anxiety, petulance, and dissatisfaction.
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How much of this supposed mourning is merely the petulance of people encountering — apparently for the first time — stories that weren't written by and for people just like them?
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Djokovic was fortunate that a moment of petulance midway through the third set did not scupper his chances of winning the only grand slam title missing from his collection.
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But it earned a bunch of solid laughs, and Damon's Kavanaugh captured something about what many have dubbed either his righteous anger or his petulance, depending on their political persuasion.
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But on the other hand, Chris Paul and Blake Griffin exist at the exact crossroads of beauty and petulance, the apex of human skill and will ramming into unkind fate.
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There's surely no kinder summation of love's petulance than the chorus of "Think About It," a jangling folk song about taking a breath before hurling yourself off a metaphorical cliff.
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Conversely, that would have been private, and clearly the point to the petulance was to make this public, and to ensure that Dolan, most of all, knew how he felt.
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By that time Mr. Ebert, whose archness felt a bit forced early in the show, has settled into a prickly confidence that's well matched with Mr. Sears's finely tuned petulance.
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He has responded to his loss in Iowa with several distinct phases, starting with stunned silence, then moving on to bitter petulance, before settling on a whole lot of excuse-making.
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With Radnor turning the righteousness up to 11, Lou is a one-stop shop of condescension and petulance, and the show doesn't realize it until way too late in the season.
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So upset was Osaka by her start that she kicked her racket on the changeover before the second set, an act of petulance that resulted in her receiving a code violation.
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Similar petulance led Trump and Bolton to try to destroy the Iran nuclear deal this spring; as a result, Iran this week announced that it was increasing its uranium enrichment capacity.
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I am rather skeptical of the advisability of spending significant effort analyzing each one, when so many seem either to express petulance or to divert attention from other, more pressing issues.
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Indeed, Coleman holds center stage an inordinate amount of the time, and it's a dazzling performance given the mix of almost-childlike innocence, unexpected resolve and occasional petulance she has to exhibit.
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Profar averted what could have been an existential crisis by being himself—there is a prodigy's confidence, if notably not the prodigy's petulance, at his core—burrowing deep into his support system.
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He's comfortable in confessional mode in his music and his social media outbursts, which toggle between petulance, complaining about how he is misperceived, and grace, encouraging his followers with warmth and inspiration.
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It attacks the uninformed citizenry immobilized by religion and prescription drugs while mocking hipsters and hypocrites on the left, all through the lens of his sardonic sense of humor that he calls petulance.
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If it's disingenuous, it's because protest speech isn't being truly countenanced, based on the specious notion that left-wing student disapproval can only come from fragility or petulance rather than knowledgeable, rational opposition.
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The messages shared by Abdulaziz, which include voice recordings, photos and videos, paint a picture of a man deeply troubled by what he regarded as the petulance of his kingdom's powerful young prince.
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He had been praised by Tennis Australia for improvements in his behavior this year, however, but his robust response to Chiller's warning was seen by many media commentators as confirmation of his petulance.
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Kennedy appears to have purposely set out to belittle a person in an apparent attempt to settle a score with someone else, typifying the inside-the-Beltway petulance that so many Americans despise.
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On a few occasions, he fell into a kind of psychedelic gibberish, exhibited uncharacteristic petulance, and pulled weird stunts—pouring salt in friends' coffee, running through the apartment naked—which he barely remembered afterward.
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Here was a man who had captained his team through their worst season for several decades, who had needlessly cost Chelsea the game, flouncing off the pitch like the embodiment of self-centred petulance.
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Travel Tips While there may not be a playbook for handling pint-size petulance at 32,000 feet, pediatric behavioral experts offer insights into how to avoid, or at least contain, that next temper tantrum.
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Trump has picked a fight over trade, and he has some legitimate grievances, but his failure to develop a coherent geostrategic policy to confront China makes the tariff fight look like his usual petulance.
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But I really do recommend that he take half an hour to watch a Cuomo briefing, and five minutes to watch a Trump one, with the president's racism, petulance and narcissism on naked display.
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Brett Kavanaugh sat before the Senate committee last week, his open weeping punctuated by moments of white, hot anger and petulance directed at Democrats for "unleashing" the ordeal in which he currently finds himself involved.
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While there may not be a playbook for handling pint-size petulance at 32,000 feet, pediatric behavioral experts and the Association of Flight Attendants offer insights into how to avoid, or at least contain, meltdowns.
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Conservatives (and Trump allies) seized on the moment as a sign of the petulance and childishness of both Pelosi and her party, still unable to come to grips with the fact that Trump is president.
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Having had rings run around him by Danny Drinkwater, it's a shame to see one of the most elegant and effective midfielders in the country waste such an outstanding skill set through nothing more than petulance.
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When you look at other pop stars of today who are known for their petulance — Kanye West or Justin Bieber — is it possible that, as your film showed, they might be more crafty behind the scenes?
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Wariness and petulance progress — helped by a Season 1 tragedy in Miller's life — to understanding and comfort, although Miller still rolls her eyes a lot and Hardy still barks "Miller!" as if she's a recalcitrant puppy.
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Warren's backers, while taking a less aggressive tone, nonetheless revived questions of whether many of Sanders's supporters are sexist and whether he contributed to the party's disastrous 2016 loss with a display of self-centered petulance.
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"In nasty episodes meant to make 'A Clockwork Orange' look like a day at nursery school, the robbers don party masks, revel in the terror they've created and kill their hostages with hair-trigger petulance," Maslin writes.
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And if you rewind to his campaign, you see the same pattern, with each rally, interview and debate packing in more petulance and vulgarity than an adult in a civilized society is supposed to get away with.
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For Andray Abrahamian of George Mason University Korea, who like many North Korea experts saw real prospects for detente, this default to the old petulance is a "massive failure of public diplomacy" on the part of Mr Kim.
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A rivalry also develops with Shooter McGavin, played the always excellent Christopher McDonald, whose petulance doesn't mesh with Happy's mere immaturity, but he does give us a classic asshole to root against outwardly while secretly hoping he wins.
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He's tried to kiss multiple women who work for him; he's withheld advancement from Ruth out of petulance; he ignores Debbie as nothing more than a pretty face when she tries to assert her role as a producer.
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Either way, with all due respect to those who might feel the need to maintain the '60s totemic legacy, Woodstock '99—in all its shrill petulance and useless cruelty—is most assuredly who we, as a country, are now.
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China's petulance has reinforced the Singapore leadership's conviction that it needs the US in the Pacific and in the South China Sea as a balance to China, but how to work for that cause without inflaming China all over again?
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Six Ways to Handle Your Child's Midair Meltdown While there may not be a playbook for handling pint-size petulance at 32,000 feet, pediatric behavioral experts offer insights into how to avoid, or at least contain, that next temper tantrum.
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These days, hosting "Fox & Friends" is like cheerleading for a player who misses an open shot on goal, then doubles back to score on his own goalie, then storms off in a fit of petulance, complaining that the ref is a loser.
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What such a vigorous outreach after years of hermetic petulance will achieve is a drawn-out, open-ended, sanctions-busting negotiations process on the "denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," the sine qua non to becoming completely, verifiably and irreversibly a powerful nuclear state.
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Beijing is even making light of American "petulance" as Trump threatens another round of punishing trade measures that would affect $200 billion of Chinese exports to the U.S. Trump could do that: He has the upper hand, legally and morally, in this dispute.
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Silva's petulance and poor decision making initially cost us a chance to watch him take on Sonnen in 2014's most heated grudge match, though it would be amiss not to mention that Sonnen also failed a drug test later on anyway.
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Her discussion of retirement after finding out that Holm had been awarded the next shot at Rousey last year might have looked like frustration, or maybe even petulance, at the time, but it's not clear that the concern ran deeper than that.
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Faced with insurrection in the ranks of the Republican Party on a historic scale, Trump fought back through his most unvarnished display of anger, petulance and disingenuous concern for the plight of African-Americans and Latinos, two groups he's routinely offended during his campaign.
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The Bulls have blown a 20-point fourth-quarter lead to their most heated rivals on their home floor, and now Pippen, in the midst of one of the finest seasons of his career up to that point, collapses in a fit of petulance.
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It has been painful to watch his petulance after Portugal was held to a scoreless draw by Iceland; his irritation as he threw a Portuguese television journalist's microphone into a river; and his glowering looks of disapproval when teammates failed to feed him pinpoint passes.
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PARELES Tones and I — the Australian songwriter Toni Watson — conquered the world last year with "Dance Monkey," and she follows it up with a variation on its music and attitude: plinking piano chords and her annoyed-child voice carry her from petulance to righteous pugnacity.
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His opponents were outraged at what they saw as a show of petulance, and some lawmakers who typically side with Duterte urged him to reconsider a move that could weaken an under-resourced military stretched constantly by natural disasters and Maoist and Islamist rebellions.
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Although many tried to dismiss her comments as pouting or an empty threat, if you really look at what she was saying on The MMA Hour, her frank assessment of her options isn't one of petulance, but weariness and, ultimately, resolution in the face of that weariness.
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Trump's petulance in mentioning that Mayor Cruz had initially been "complimentary" of him but had later changed her tune did nothing to disabuse the public that, to him, even natural disasters are little more than a slap fight over an act of disrespect on the playground.
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There are moments that should tug at your heartstrings, like when Chris dumps his mother's body into the water with pain masked as petulance, but those of us who are viewers of that other show must remember young Carl Grimes putting a bullet in his mother's head and marching on resolutely.
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" By the end of this song, though, she's retreated from the bait-and-switch, and leaned in to the emptiness — and maybe petulance — that comes with missing out on love: "I just wanna have ice cream on my birthday/Blow the candles out and wish all of the pain away.
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" The deeper problem with the commander in chief's well-documented petulance, diagnosed Ted Gup, is that it constitutes abdication: "For the foreseeable future the presidency will be both vacant and occupied, with the country reduced to waiting out his tantrum and deciphering its future from a fusillade of tweets and campaign-like rants.
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But the best-case scenario is that those who see the movie will go home and read the books, and experience the bigger, richer, more brilliant world that L'Engle created, in all its strangeness and smartness and periodic tables and quotations from old, confusing texts and passages in which Meg voices her petulance and anger.
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" The petulance and cruelty of a president declaring that he would prefer that Americans suffer through the destruction of the health care system, and that he would bear no responsibility, recalls the boy who sends his little brother to steal a chocolate bar and warns, "if you get caught, I had nothing to do with this.
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Charles M. Blow No one with an open mind and sound reason who witnessed the sniffing, sipping, scowling, raging, interrupting display of petulance and agitation that was Donald Trump's debate performance on Monday could possibly argue that he won that debate or that he is the kind of person to whom we should entrust the presidency.
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It was only a couple of years ago when I'd first read "Desert Solitaire" and been floored by Abbey's barreling prose, his joy and petulance, his pre-Gonzo Gonzoness: "[F]or godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those [expletive] sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs, look around; throw away those goddamned idiotic cameras!" he wrote.
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For instance, casting Trump as Julius Caesar (which presumably would be supported by those conservatives who think Caesar's the good guy) suggests that Trump, though portrayed with petulance, is still a charismatic war hero who has earned the love of the common people by vanquishing his enemies — a narrative certainly supported by the president and his own supporters.
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The more cautious strategy would have been to endorse Trump as some others have done this week, because if Trump loses by a small margin, Cruz could find himself with even fewer friends in the party than he has now, as many Republicans would no doubt argue that his personal petulance and anger toward Trump contributed to a narrow loss.
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"The Politics of Petulance" and "America, Compromised" join an impressive array of books and essays that may, someday, have a future intellectual historian using them as examples to lament the fact that his or her contemporaries are not as eloquent or important as the group that arose in the Trump era to combat the threats to our way of life.
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The bourgeoisie of that era talked about the unreliability of hired help with the same willed petulance that we reserve today for conversations about how it takes three remotes to turn on our TV. Indeed, in today's world, it seems as if you'd be less likely to hear about a domestic walking out than you would someone falling in love with his virtual assistant.
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One way to view Trump is that only his personal failings — his bullying, his petulance, his egomania, his ignorance, his inconsistency, his mendacity, his racism, his hair-trigger temper, his arrogance, his disorganization and his misogyny — stand in the way of his emerging as the logical victor in an anti-status quo, pro-change election that produced in Bernie Sanders the other political phenomenon of 2016.
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" If this is not Turkmenistan, nor yet the land of Newspeak, but our America after all, where the curiously coiffed Great Leader of childish petulance accuses all media dissenters of distributing "FAKE NEWS," and attacks the judiciary, and adores an autocrat, and labors night and day for his wealthiest cronies in the name of some phony "middle-class miracle," then you must "hold on when there is nothing in you except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!
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