Word: churlish
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...would be churlish not to rejoice in the ECAC decision to allow Eugene Kinasewich to play hockey in intercollegiate competition this year. But it must nonetheless be strongly repeated that by choosing to treat the case on Harvard's terms, as an individual and not general phenomenon, the Association has foolishly evaded a real responsibility to define general policy toward players in his position. This was a chance badly missed; and it should be missed again...
...Notorious Landlady gives Jack Lemmon the chance to show what a fine funnyman he is in a playful mystery-comedy set in London. Kim Novak is delectably Kim Novak, and it would be churlish to ask for anything more...
...Notorious Landlady gives Jack Lemmon the chance to show what a fine funnyman he is in a playful mystery-comedy set in London. Kim Novak is delectably Kim Novak, and it would be churlish to ask for anything more...
Their differences are almost too neatly balanced: he reads Edmund Burke, she William Morris: his creed is Responsibility and Self-Reliance. hers is that Socialism and Weakness make Right. Confronted, for instance, with that troglodytic species, the Manhattan bus driver, he remarks that bus drivers in Xew York are churlish savages, which is true, and she replies that they are working men whose low pay is small compensation for a hellish job-also true...
...dining room in the Houses of Parliament, and looked forward to the kind of pleasantly informal discussion they had had with Georgy Malenkov. They knew there would be differences, but hoped these might be cordially discussed. So they planned. But they expected too much of their No. 1 guest. Churlish Nikita Khrushchev made it a night to remember...