101 Sentences With "querulous" | Random Sentence Generator

His querulous nature shouldn't be coddled; it should be crushed.

Their querulous, precarious, fractious lives and relationships are not so uncommon.

In the Labour corner is the querulous, wooden, sanctimonious Jeremy Corbyn.

The presidency will no longer rotate among the country's three querulous islands.

Raisman, who is seventy-six, is querulous by nature, a determined outsider.

Their querulous, hostile or annoyed faces recur in her work from the late 1950s.

Even by the standards of Hong Kong's far more querulous politics, the scene was striking.

Until then, he'd been responsive, aware, irritable, funny, querulous, weak, confused, furious, loopy, but recognizably himself.

As callous as that might sound, it was the authentic voice of London: unfazed, querulous, eccentric.

The telling episode shows both Mr Marsh's disarmingly frank storytelling and his querulous, warty sort of heroism.

Then there's the posthumous Einstein, of course, and his querulous descendants and the keeper of his brain.

The PIN pad blipped obediently as he entered his number, then let out a low, querulous screech.

No one doubts that its members, however querulous, have delivered more together than they could have done apart.

I am tempted to ask the question of this querulous, rebellious, iconoclastic collection of right-wing dunderheads: freedom from what?

Google won't quaver on the decision to move away from desserts, which answers a quadrillion querulous questions about the names.

In past years, he acknowledges, a few querulous baseball sorts asked pointedly if he risked tiring himself out with his charities.

Is there a polite and kind way to ask if they got the rest of the presents, without being seen as querulous?

Mr. Bradsell, a quirky character with a clipped, querulous way of speaking, was not straight out of central casting as a bartender.

My favorite, of course, was the topmost, 17A, that querulous animated Great Dane DOG riding through my childhood in the Mystery Machine.

As Republican congressmen and senators returned to Capitol Hill on May 10th, the ranks backing the party's prospective nominee looked ragged and querulous.

The paradoxes of China's rise today are best illuminated by Friedman's querulous visit to the country in 1980, when China was desperately poor.

I mean the querulous, existentially challenged title characters of Chekhov's "Three Sisters," who live on dreams of making it to the big city.

Exactly the same holds true for the hero of Robert Bresson's " Diary of a Country Priest " (1951), who, like Toller, suffers from a querulous gut.

If that were true — or exclusively true — there's no way we'd be hanging on every word of these querulous, increasingly scattershot theorizers, kibitzers and confessors.

True change will only come to the Knicks when the querulous and glowering Knicks owner interrogates his two decades of failure and shows himself the door.

He managed to take France's rather querulous desire for change and infuse it with a sense of optimism, with the idea that people could be better off.

But her once-mighty volume has faded, other than an occasional forced burst of blunt power, leaving only her stolid, vaguely querulous portrayal of this complex character.

" We encounter a more human Krishna, who can turn querulous or even insecure as he makes his revelations: "Since you aren't scoffing / I'll proclaim to you the utmost secret.

I appreciate the country's promise as a secular, moderate, tolerant, Muslim-majority nation perched at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, surrounded as it is by querulous nation-states.

" Cocking her head at "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," she focuses on Teri Garr, playing a "scoldy and querulous" wife, commenting that "the normally attractive Garr is cruelly deglamorized.

She is, don't get me wrong, fully delightful, playing Queen Anne as a gouty toddler of a monarch, impulse-driven and querulous while also being capable of bursts of devious plotting.

Like every other angry woman in ballet, Pozzi's querulous wife (Elizabeth McGorian) takes picky little steps on pointe; the crowds, wearing black period outfits, gesture in stylized fashion; the can-can girls show their knickers.

Southampton, N.Y. (Reuters) - Professional golfers can be a querulous bunch, so it says something about the status of Shinnecock Hills that few complaints have been registered so far ahead of the U.S. Open starting on Thursday.

Still, it's worth seeing "Rhinoceros" for a few of its actors, particularly the querulous, twitchy Mr. Twersky, who also appears in the Netflix documentary "One of Us," which follows three Jews who leave their ultra-Orthodox communities.

Implicit is the querulous ressentiment of the Skeptical Pigeon, who would be the type to come right out and say it: if these paintings were all of white people, would they have garnered the same attention, the same success?

Mr Xi is determined to reimpose discipline on a querulous society that in recent years, thanks to the rapid spread of social media, has become much better equipped to organise itself independently of the party and to evade official controls.

There is a moment in "The Big Short," the new film based on Michael Lewis's reporting on the mortgage crisis, in which Steve Carell's character, a querulous hedge-fund manager, wants to figure out whether to bet against the market.

Speaking in a gentler vocal register than the querulous pitch she can adopt on cue (as in "Downton"), Ms. Smith never overplays her hand, preferring to keep us guessing as she moves toward and away from any real grasp of events.

Once they see rainbow-colored houses and adults sporting what looks like Halloween apparel (even outside of Mardi Gras season) without anyone so much as offering a querulous double take, they understand that this is no slog-through-museums type of trip.

She has the spontaneity that the tale demands, and the punch of her performance lies in its sheer nerve; even though her character has our sympathy from the start, she keeps asking for more, tugging at us like a querulous child until our patience cracks.

He's midway between a doddering grandfather and the leader he used to be, and Mangold and his co-writers eke every bit of epic tragedy out of how far he's fallen, from a world-shaking telepath to a querulous old man who has to be bodily hauled into a toilet stall, protesting all the way.

Simply to sit and breathe for twenty-five minutes, if only to hear cars and buses go by on a city avenue—listening to the world rather than to the frantic non sequiturs of one's "monkey mind," fragmented thoughts and querulous moods racing each other around—can intimate the possibility of a quiet grace in the midst of noise.

Pretty much everybody who encountered Bruce Springsteen over the many years, from the proprietors of the gritty Upstage in '69 Asbury Park, to the iconic Columbia hitmakers John Hammond and Clive Davis, to his ever-loyal, ever-querulous, suffering but indispensable E Street sidemen, to Ronald Reagan, to Pete Seeger, all the way to Barack Obama, has recognized Springsteen as somebody way special — somebody who proved it all night onstage, owned major chops, was a guy you couldn't take your eyes off, and somehow couldn't stay mad at, even though he possessed charmingly immodest valuations of his young abilities, treated his bandmates like favored employees and could go all moody, isolated 'n' stuff when things rubbed him the wrong way.

He is a spleeny, querulous, joyless fellow, of thin blood and aching liver.

When the focus is to remedy some injustice by legal action, they are sometimes called "querulous paranoia".

I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.

Peevish, querulous, a panegyrist of former times when he was a boy, a chastiser and censurer of his juniors.

The hacker, saboteur, and demolitionist. He is cunning and resourceful, but sarcastic and querulous. His beast mode is a rat.

In psychiatry, the terms querulous paranoia (Kraepelin, 1904)Kraepelin, E. (1904). Lectures in clinical psychiatry (trans. ed. T. Johnstone). London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox.

Stripe-breasted spinetail is an insectivore which is often difficult to see as it forages in undergrowth, but may be located by its calls, a querulous chew or a high-pitched nasal keep gcing.

Juveniles are duller, and lack the adult's white crown spots. This species has a bounding flight like a woodpecker. Moult begins in July and continues to November, with male starting before female. The call is a querulous kiew, kiew.

It has various call notes, including a querulous scolding "skeeow", noted by Moreau, a short, deep trill followed by a wing- clap, and a sproo note, accompanied by a small jump. A croaking call may be heard during migration, and a guttural alarm note has been recorded.

In its review of that play's opening night, Variety yet again highlights his performance, reporting that "Gage Clarke is expertly comic as a querulous, disheveled sawbones".Morrison, Hobe (1950). "Plays on Broadway: The Happy Time", review, Variety, February 1, 1950, p. 50. Retrieved March 22, 2019.

All potential Gyps vultures are distinguished by having paler, often streaky plumage, with bulging wing primaries giving them a less evenly broad-winged form. Cinereous vultures are generally very silent, with a few querulous mewing, roaring or guttural cries solely between adults and their offspring at the nest site.

"Mr Charles Collette at Cardiff Theatre", The Western Mail, 7 September 1876, p. 8 Collette persuaded the author to take a part in his own piece and to take over the role of the querulous eccentric Toddleposh in Collette's play. After this, Maltby divided his time between acting, writing and costume design.

The wife is querulous and domineering, the husband philosophical. He finds comfort in the kindness of a widow they have recently met, and at the end of the play he leaves his wife for her. The play debuted in London's West End in 1966, starring Coward, and was performed on Broadway in 1974.

Spectrum was noted for its introductory taglines (e.g., "Nine distinct viewpoints!" or "Ten opposing points of view!") and the querulous, often breathless delivery of some commentators as they squeezed their heated opinions into the short time-slot. CBS News found a television use for this argumentativeness when it adapted the Spectrum format as a two- person segment, in its 60 Minutes news program.

His application was denied by General Eurico Gaspar Dutra, and had to renounce the citizenship. In 1928, Medawar went to Marlborough College in Marlborough, Wiltshire. He hated the college because "they were critical and querulous at the same time, wondering what kind of person a Lebanese was—something foreign you can be sure". And also because of its preference on sports, in which he was weak.

Many of James's stories about writers show some evidence, usually smothered in ironic humor, of resentment that his own fiction didn't reach a much larger audience. "The Middle Years" is free from such rather querulous regrets. Instead, the tale shows the artist's quest as something far more important than a search for popularity and material rewards. The plot is so simple that it almost seems an afterthought.

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.

Lutin Mum (Chloe Bale) is the servant of the princes. A very grumpy and querulous person, she was originally a thief. She dislikes the heavy labour she must do, such as carrying the supplies. When the characters get covered in mess (quite frequently) Lutin often complains about it messing up her hair or make-up, even though her hair appears messy and she obviously wears no make-up at all.

She had to deal with many letters from individuals asking for help or resources, and she was concerned with her own health, querulous and indignant. Iltani’s work as overseer of the textile business in the palace of Rimah is well documented in the archive. The “department of Iltani,” as the business was called, employed 15 women and 10 men. Iltani was also involved in the metal trade; she personally received copper from her male subordinate.

Police stations became more sensitive to threats, with people making threats temporarily detained and their houses searched for weapons. When issuing weapon licenses, the application is closely examined, since Leibacher had been diagnosed with a paranoid personality disorder and "brain weakness" ("Gehirnschwäche"). He was legally able to buy the weapons although he had already threatened people, had been known as a querulous vexatious grumbler, and had had a report made against him.

Bagrat and Tamar had three children, a son and two daughters. One of their daughters, Darejan, was married off to Giorgi III Gurieli, the new Prince of Guria, who had an eye both on Tamar and the throne of Imereti. According to Prince Vakhushti, Giorgi was "querulous, godless, bloodthirsty, and a merciless slave-trader". When Bagrat died in 1681, Giorgi Gurieli seized the throne of Imereti, divorced his child-bride Darejan and married his own mother-in-law, the queen dowager Tamar.

In fact from 1904 Kraepelin changed the section heading to "The born criminal", moving it from under "Congenital feeble-mindedness" to a new chapter on "Psychopathic personalities". They were treated under a theory of degeneration. Four types were distinguished: born criminals (inborn delinquents), pathological liars, querulous persons, and Triebmenschen (persons driven by a basic compulsion, including vagabonds, spendthrifts, and dipsomaniacs). The concept of "psychopathic inferiorities" had been recently popularised in Germany by Julius Ludwig August Koch, who proposed congenital and acquired types.

Maclear's rat (Rattus macleari) is an extinct large rat endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. It was one of two species of rat native to Christmas Island, alongside the Bulldog rat. Abundant, unfamiliar with and seemingly unafraid of humans, large numbers of the creatures emerged and foraged in all directions at night. Making querulous squeaks, the rats entered the Challenger Expedition's tents and shelters in 1886, ran over sleepers, and upset everything in the search and fight for food.

The action succeeded in getting Helgi national attention and arousing some, but limited sympathy for his cause.Helgi 121-140 After being arrested by the police, he was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital, where a psychiatrist diagnosed him as probably having querulous paranoia. Later actions by Helgi included sprinkling tar on Stjórnarráðshúsið, the seat of government, in 1974, breaking windows in the same building in 1976, and sprinkling a chemical mixture on the same building in 1981.Helgi p. 141-158.

The film was based on the biography by Jim Ede, who had discovered the story while working at the Tate Gallery.GENIUS DRIVEN BY LOVE: "Savage Messiah" Tells Strange Story of Gaudier, Sculptor in Thrall to Querulous Woman Ford, Lillian C. Los Angeles Times 8 Mar 1931: 26. Ede had acquired Sophie Brzeska's estate in 1927 from the British Treasury Solicitor after she died intestate. This acquisition included not only her writings, but also the estate of Henri Gaudier, with many of his works and papers.

As social engineering, the Cultural Revolution reasserted the political primacy of Maoism, but also stressed, strained, and broke the PRC's relations with the USSR and the West.Dictionary of Historical Terms, Second Edition, Chris Cook, Ed. Peter Bedrick Books: New York:1999, p. 89. Geopolitically, despite their querulous "Maoism vs. Marxism–Leninism" disputes about interpretations and practical applications of Orthodox Marxism, the USSR and the PRC advised, aided, and supplied North Vietnam during the Vietnam War (1945–1975),The Red Flag: A History of Communism (2009) p. 461.

Peston's delivery on radio and television news has attracted comment. Richard Wenner complained of it being that of a "verbal slug – leaving a trail of audio slime". Tim Teeman in The Times described his "intonation" as "raggedy [and] querulous" in 2008, and Ann Treneman described Peston as "excruciatingly hard to listen to" in 2009. The Daily Telegraph identifies "strangulated diction" and "repetition of small words" among his traits; in the same article, maintaining he is "loads better than [he] was", Peston himself conceded he is "still not as polished as some".

Maria-Pia Casilio (5 May 1935 - 10 April 2012) was an Italian film actress, best known for major roles in Umberto D. and Un americano a Roma. Born in San Pio delle Camere, L'Aquila, Casilio was quite active between 1952 and 1960, usually filling roles as a querulous and naive small-town girl. After her marriage with voice actor Giuseppe Rinaldi, she semi-retired from acting. On the Criterion Collection DVD release of Umberto D. Vittorio De Sica comments she was a lucky charm to have her in his films.

During his time as Lord Chancellor, Jones saw that Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin underwent extensive repairs. In old age, according to Elrington Ball, Jones suffered a notable deterioration in his character; he became fretful and querulous, and was quite unable to bear the robust criticism which all Irish public figures are expected to endure.Ball p. 237 His enemies would spread malicious stories, such as a farcical claim that he was a wizard, simply to enjoy the hysterical efforts which Jones, who seems to have lacked a sense of humour, would make to refute them.

Rampant inflation had however eroded competitiveness, devalued pensions, investments, and wages. Thatcher reminded him: "On your own head be it, Geoffrey, if anything goes wrong," commencing an often tense and querulous working relationship. Thatcher's point was that the vast increase in (indirect) taxation and government spending (notably in public sector pay) in 1979 would lead to terrible consequences – which it did, as unemployment doubled. The financial policy tightened money supply, restricted public sector pay, with the ultimate effect of driving up inflation, at least in the short-term, and unemployment in the medium-term.

Others such as Mir Ali Murad Khan Talpur was taken aboard the sloop and exiled to Burma.Personal observations on Sindh: the manners and customs of its inhabitants; and its productive capabilities A British journal said of the captive Sindhi Amirs: "The Amirs as being the prisoners of the state are maintained in strict seclusion; they are described as Broken-Hearted and Miserable men, maintaining much of the dignity of fallen greatness, and without any querulous or angry complainings at this unallevable source of sorrow, refusing to be comforted".

In the mid-18th century, a querulous lady had complained to Richardson: "What, in your opinion, is the meaning of the word sentimental, so much in vogue among the polite...Everything clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word...such a one is a sentimental man; we were a sentimental party".Alvarez, p. 11-12 What she was observing was the way the term was becoming a European obsessionAlvarez, p. 12—part of the Enlightenment drive to foster the individual's capacity to recognise virtue at a visceral level.

In 1783 he left the West Indies, returned to England, and settled at Bath, where he became in volved in many disputes with his professional colleagues and others. These arose partly from his determined opposition to quacks and quackery—his attempts to expose and suppress quackery may be seen as quixotic, but they were no less laudable. His temper was, however, altogether unfit for the warfare which he brought about. He was naturally querulous, hot, and irascible, and his disposition had been soured by disappointments in domestic life.

The female is significantly drabber and browner than the male and has a less prominent crest. The bill is yellowish in the male, and dark with a small yellow tip in the female. Depending on gender and subspecies there are significant variations in the color of the iris, ranging from red over orange and yellow to bluish-white in the male, and whitish over reddish to brown in the female. In addition to the display calls described in the breeding section below, foraging birds give a loud querulous “tank?” when disturbed or in flight.

Richard S. Ginell reviewed the reissue of the album for Allmusic and wrote that on the album O'Day was "served with a collection of brilliant, difficult big-band charts, courtesy of a 27-year-old emerging master named Gary McFarland who mixed instrumental voices and tempo changes in querulous, turbulent combinations" and highlighted "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis" as being "enlivened with sprouting shafts of outlaw muted brass and reeds". Ginell wrote that it was "...a tribute to O'Day's abilities that she makes it all sound easy, exhibiting a freedom in phrasing and improvising that is extraordinary even for her".

Alas! Unless the august spirit of my late father chances to > be reborn, who will plead my cause or pity my condition? At the risk of > appearing querulous, I must say to you that never since birth have I enjoyed > a moment's peace of mind - never, from the time of my journey in my mother's > arms to Uda District in Yamato, an infant orphaned by my father's death. > Though able to preserve my useless life, I could not safely frequent the > capital but was obliged to skulk in out-of-the-way places, dwell in distant > lands, and serve commoners.

As a result of the play's critical failure, Williams vowed that he would "never open a play in New York again....I can't get good press from the New York Times, and [critics] Harold Clurman, Brendan Gill and Jack Kroll hate me....I put too much of my heart in [my plays] to have them demolished by some querulous old aisle sitters." In 1981 Williams revised the play for the publication of its acting text by Dramatists Play Service; he then revised that text for the 1983 New Directions edition, which appeared posthumously.Williams, Tennessee. Clothes for a Summer Hotel.

Leith served as chaplain to the Royal Navy in China and to the British Army in the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Malta, and Crimea. Leith arrived in the Falkland Islands in October 1845, proved himself to be 'querulous and eccentric', and engaged in a feud with his own brother, Richard Clement Moody, the Governor of the Falkland Islands, and, subsequently, a feud with his brother's successor as Governor, George Rennie, although in the latter James Leith enjoyed the favour of the Colonial Office in London. James Leith Moody left the Falkland Islands in 1854. James Leith Moody was assistant chaplain to the British armed forces at Aldershot in 1859.

His satires are in heroic couplets after the manner of Alexander Pope; assorted other verse, little of it memorable, adopts the highly mannered style of the late eighteenth century. As a critic he had acuteness; but he was one-sided, prejudiced, and savagely bitter, and much more influenced in his judgments by the political opinions than by the literary merits of his victims. These were faults he shared with his querulous and factional time; however, Gifford was among the most virulent practitioners of the art of partisan review. As an editor, he played an important role in the revival of Jonson's reputation after a period of neglect.

In the nineteenth century, there was some debate as to whether this sonnet and Sonnet 57 were addressed to a man or a woman. The tone of querulous anger and the use of some sonnet conventions (such as the conceit of servitude) were sometimes seen as inappropriate for a poem addressed to a social superior and a man. Others, principally those who wished to fit the sonnets into a biographical narrative, accepted that the poems were addressed to a man, and often had a specific man in mind, whether Southampton or someone else. Thomas Tyler, for instance, noted thematic and verbal parallels between these sonnets and some letters of Pembroke.

Some writers would still use psychopathy in the general sense of mental illness, such as Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud in Psychopathic Characters on Stage. From H. Cleckley to DSM-IV-TR: the evolution of the concept of psychopathy toward the medicalization of delinquency by RP Henriques, 2009, Rev. latinoam. psicopatol. fundam. vol.12 no.2. (Translation option on right) By contrast influential German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, who had previously included a section on moral insanity in his psychiatric classification scheme, was by 1904 referring to specific psychopathic subtypes all involving antisocial, criminal or dissocial behaviour, including: born criminals (inborn delinquents), liars and swindlers, querulous persons, and driven persons (including vagabonds, spendthrifts, and dipsomaniacs).

Despite her unfortunate experience at Ascot, Cloonlara was made 6/4 favourite for the 165th running of the 1000 Guineas over the Rowley Mile course at Newmarket Racecourse. She took the lead from the start but was strongly challenged by the 16/1 outsider Mrs McArdy two furlongs from the finish. When Piggott resorted to the whip, the filly's only response was to swish her tail in a "querulous" manner, and she finished the race in fourth place behind Mrs McArdy, Freeze The Secret and Sanedtki. Attempts to return the filly to sprint distances in the Cork and Orrery Stakes at Royal Ascot in June proved unsuccessful as she threw Piggott off in the preliminaries and then refused to enter the starting stalls.

238 The Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, in the Preface to the 1875 edition of Christabel, argues, > Compare the nerveless and hysterical verses headed 'Fears in Solitude' > (exquisite as is the overture, faultless in tone and colour, and worthy of a > better sequel) with the majestic and masculine sonnet of Wordsworth [...] > for, great as he is, I at least cannot hold Wordsworth, though so much the > stronger and more admirable man, equal to Coleridge as a mere poet – speaks > with a calm force of thought and resolution; Coleridge wails, appeals, > deprecates, objurgates in a flaccid and querulous fashion without heart or > spirit. This debility of mind and manner is set off in strong relief by the > loveliness of landscape touches in the same poem.

The film unfolds in brief episodes, detailing the travails of the working- class Pollock family, who live in a shabby flat in a tower block in London's East End. They are struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the nagging, put-upon mother Mavis (Pam Ferris) is working; the bitter, feckless father Frank (Jeff Robert) and the couple's two sons Colin (Tim Roth), an extremely shy young man, and Mark (Phil Daniels), his outspoken, headstrong older brother, are on the dole. Their aimless, querulous existence is contrasted with Mavis's sister Barbara (Marion Bailey) and her husband John (Alfred Molina), whose financial and social loftiness in suburban Chigwell serves as a comfortable facade for their lacklustre marriage.

The troupes moved from yard to yard to perform their skits, using props, face paint and costumes to play the roles of well-known personalities in the community. Examples of gossip about undesired behaviour that could surface in the skits for comic effect were querulous neighbours, adulterous affairs, planters mistreating workers, domestic disputes or abuse, crooked politicians and any form of stealing or cheating experienced in the society. Even though no names were mentioned in these skits, the audience would usually be able to guess who the heckling message in the troupe's dramatised portrayals was aimed at, as it was played out right on the person's own front yard. The acts thus functioned as social and moral commentaries on current events and behaviours in Nevisian society.

Levy, p. 728 But in his Des Moines speech, Agnew attacked the media, complaining that immediately after Nixon's speech, "his words and policies were subjected to instant analysis and querulous criticism ... by a small band of network commentators and self-appointed analysts, the majority of whom expressed in one way or another their hostility to what he had to say ... It was obvious that their minds were made up in advance."Coffey, p. 100 Agnew continued, "I am asking whether a form of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men ... and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit their own set of biases".Witcover 1972, pp.

Cohen went on to release two additional albums on the Smithsonian Folkways record label. Pitts’ show attracted controversy and condemnation from some listeners and WBAI staff. One outraged listener writing to the station in 1972 castigated Pitts as “spiteful, intolerant, and tedious, and a querulous spoiled brat to boot.” Journalist John Dalmas from the Rockland County Journal-News argued that Pitts “has a reputation for being a gay bigot—he puts down gays who don’t swing his way” and claimed that “Out of the Slough” had “done little to advance the cause of gay liberation.” WBAI producer Paul McIsaac, while considering himself both a supporter of gay liberation and a personal friend of Pitts, questioned the show’s style and expressed discomfort over the content, particularly its discussion of intergenerational sex.

The novel begins with seven characters flying to Ocanara Army Air Base, Florida, after a daylong visit to Sellers Field, Mississippi, aboard an AT-7 navigation trainer. It concerns the activities of a fictional administrative command named Army Air Forces Operations and Requirements Analysis Division, acronymed AFORAD. This organization is a fictional amalgamation of its real-life counterparts, the office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff for Operations, Commitments, and Requirements (OC&R;) and the organizations in Florida that OC&R; supervised, the Army Air Forces Tactical Center (AAFTAC), and the Army Air Forces Board. The beginning segment, the shortest of the novel, introduces the major characters and their traits by examining their reactions to a minor subplot of the handling of the querulous base commander at Sellers Field: an old Regular Army colonel who is an alcoholic.

Last Friday the breaches of manners were sadly > conspicuous. One officer must not find fault with another, but the truth is > that our treasurer is habitually too contemptuous of view other than his own > --not infrequently wider than his own--and this characteristic does not > abate as the years pass. With his rough disdain and Thornton's tendency to > querulous irritability there must be occasional splutterings, and the only > way of keeping them down is for you and other members to attend as often as > convenient discountenance them by quietly maintaining the rules of debate." Sir J. Macdonnel labeled Thornton a "disruptive revolutionary influence" but a "useful solvent [who] had the art of putting questions disconcerting to the Dogmatic Spirit, and he had a vision, temperate of a world that was to come - more questions than he himself could answer.

He was first elected MP for County Sligo in the 1880 general election, for South Sligo in the 1885 general election, then for Belfast West in the 1886 election and for North Kerry in the 1892 election. He was a cosigner of the No Rent Manifesto issued in 1881. He was regarded as one of the finest orators of the Irish Party, but handicapped by a querulous temperament. Following the party split over Parnell's leadership, he sided with John Dillon's anti- Parnellite faction, then in 1896 retired from parliamentary politics, disgusted at the bitter factionalism following the failure of the second Home Rule bill.In the House of Commons Information Office publication Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850, Thomas Sexton is recorded as having taken the Chiltern Hundreds on 19 February 1895.

It was later included on The X-Files Mythology, Volume 1 – Abduction, a DVD collection containing episodes centered on the series' mythology. In a first season retrospective in Entertainment Weekly, the episode was rated a B+, with praise for Hardin's "world-weary" performance, though the review noted that the "querulous, ominous tone" of the episode was "a little awkward, but full of promise of things to come". Adrienne Martini of the Austin Chronicle called the episode "fun to watch", describing it as "great TV"; while the San Jose Mercury News called the title character "the most interesting new character on television", also calling the episode "strange but marvellous". The Toronto Star Mike Antonucci wrote that the episode demonstrates that Carter "can blend subtle, complicated elements with heart-pounding action", adding that "Nothing is obvious about The X-Files, in fact, except its quality".

Sitta przewalskii's territorial calls differ significantly from those of S. leucopsis, whose notes are more nasal, whereas the song of S. przewalskii is in long verses composed of whistles that ascend in pitch, interspersed with short notes. According to the Handbook of the Birds of the World, vocalizations include a "muffled, mellow 'chip' repeated in irregular series...; a loud, emphatic, whistled 'dweep' or 'dweep- eep'; a slightly nasal, querulous 'que', usually repeated 3–5 times...; and thinner 'pee-pee-pee-pee...' or 'seet-seet-seet-seet...' notes on [the] same pitch but slowing towards [the] end of [the] phrase." In 1950, English naturalist Frank Ludlow reported a description of the bird, as provided to him by Ernst Schäfer who studied an adult male near Litang in 1934. It was characterized as: "one of the shyest and rarest denizens of the conifer forest", and one leading a solitary life, much like nearby populations of three-toed woodpeckers (Picoides tridactylus funebris).

Book cover of Amy Tan's novel The Bonesetter's Daughter traces a Chinese-American woman's search for her own voice and identity as she grapples with her elderly mother's apparent dementia, her husband's ambivalent commitment, and her teen stepdaughters' hurtful self- absorption. Guided by a ghost of uncertain identity, she travels into the past and lives out portions of her mother's tragic youth, gaining insight, forgiveness, and strength. The opera is set both in 1997 San Francisco, and in China and Hong Kong around the outbreak of World War II. Shifting times and locales are linked by a recurring trio of women: American-born Ruth, a professional ghostwriter who scarcely speaks up for herself; her mother, LuLing, who appears both as a querulous old woman and as a selfish adolescent; and LuLing's childhood caretaker known as Precious Auntie, who appears both as a ghost and as the fiery young mother she once was.

Kemp is a unique surname in the parishes of Mauchline and Stair at the time of Burns, suggesting that the family were not local in origin. Old Kemp's daughter is described as having been a trim trig lass, one of the leading belles of the district and it is recorded that Burns had an e'e to Kate. Kate lived with her elderly and disabled father who had a slight paralysis and on the recorded occasion of one evening visit by Robert Burns and James Andrew she was not at home because she was out in the fields looking for a cow that had wandered resulting in her competing admirers having, as it turned out, productive time on their hands whilst awaiting her return. Wilson records from a 'correspondent' who recalled the words of James Andrew, miller of Barskimming Mill, that Kate's father was ".. not originally possessed of the best of tempers, was rendered peevish and querulous by disease and in consequence of slight paralysis, generally supported himself on two sticks".

Making the game up on the spot, Pollyanna's father taught her to look at the good side of things—in this case, to be glad about the crutches because she did not need to use them. With this philosophy, and her own sunny personality and sincere, sympathetic soul, Pollyanna brings so much gladness to her aunt's dispirited New England town that she transforms it into a pleasant place to live. The Glad Game shields her from her aunt's stern attitude: when Aunt Polly puts her in a stuffy attic room without carpets or pictures, she exults at the beautiful view from the high window; when she tries to "punish" her niece for being late to dinner by sentencing her to a meal of bread and milk in the kitchen with the servant Nancy, Pollyanna thanks her rapturously because she likes bread and milk, and she likes Nancy. Soon Pollyanna teaches some of Beldingsville's most troubled inhabitants to "play the game" as well, from a querulous invalid named Mrs.

In January 1808 Townson, affronted at Bligh's delay over the granting of land, became 'an opponent of Bligh, and when rebellion took place some months later he was judged one of the principal six "who previously concerted together with Major Johnston the arrest and imprisonment of the Governor". He was present at the dinner at the officers' mess on the eve of the trial of John Macarthur which precipitated the revolt [and] he signed the requisition to Johnston to depose Bligh on 26 January 1808' He "soon fell out with the rebel administration. Johnston refused to give him the land he wanted at Emu Island, near Penrith; though he was given at Botany Bay near the present Blakehurst and twenty-eight government cattle, he claimed that only half the grant was of any use, and his long complaints against Bligh written in 1807 and 1808 were followed by another, equally querulous, in 1809 against his supplanters." Overlooked in the grants made by Johnston in 1808, he received two grants from Foveaux in November 1808, both in the Botany Bay district, one of , the other of around the present Oatley station, Mortdale, Penshurst and Hurstville.

Dalton was appointed to the Supreme Court on 25 February 2011, the 108th judge to be appointed. Dalton has been the trial judge in a diverse range of cases, from refusing bail for a man accused of domestic violence while awaiting trial for other allegations of domestic violence, to a commercial dispute where the administrator was removed for preferring its own commercial interests to that of the fund. Dalton was scathing of the administrators and their lawyers, finding that the administrators had been extravagant in its use of member's funds, gave misleading information to creditors and that a solicitor’s affidavit was little more than combative and querulous commentary on the litigation.. Dalton also had to decide whether to order that a baby be vaccinated against hepatitis B contrary to the wishes of the parents. The mother had chronic hepatitis B and Dalton held that it was in the child's best interests to be vaccinated.. While appointed to the Trial Division, Dalton has also sat in the Court of Appeal, delivering the leading judgment in a personal injury case, finding that the judgment of the District Court was illogical and unreasonable to reject the evidence of the plaintiff..