Word: curmudgeoned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DeVoto always in such an uproar? Edmund Wilson once asked, genuinely puzzled. Part of the answer is that DeVoto-to use an almost obsolete word for an almost obsolete species -was a curmudgeon. It is Stegner's finest instinct that he does not try to make his curmudgeon correct-just very necessary...
Newport is an island. Theophilus North is Wilder's Tempest, a mock world, a playful world, made safe and orderly by kindly meddling. It would take a Caliban or a young curmudgeon to complain that it is a tempest in a teapot...
...himself spent the last six years of his life, unable to write, staring out of his window in Christiania. "Leave that to me," he snapped at a visitor who asked how he felt about God. And one day, when a nurse announced that he was feeling better, the old curmudgeon found the ultimate putdown. "On the contrary!" he said, and died. · Brad Darrach
...where have all the dollars gone? They have fled to the august past. It is apparently easier to sell a painting for $250,000 than for $2,500. But what would the vitriolic old curmudgeon Edgar Degas-who prophetically remarked that there are some kinds of success indistinguishable from panic-make of the $530,000 paid for one of his pastels at Parke-Bernet last May? How would the impoverished Van Gogh have greeted the news that 80 years after his death his later oils would routinely go for anything between $250,000 and $1,000,000 to exactly...
...performance proved a triumph, demolishing even those reviewers who held the show at arm's length. Walter Kerr in the Times boomed: "Yes, Yes, Alexis! No, No, Follies" Even Curmudgeon John Simon fell for the star at the expense of an early 19th century English clergyman: "Alexis, and not Sydney," he burbled in New York magazine, "is the Smith of Smiths." Says she with the obligatory amount of modesty: "The acclaim is not that important. Listen, how many people's opinions do you really respect? Four or five? More than that is just pleasantry." But it is something more...