Word: curmudgeoned
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...effects (those from the original version) range from the sublime to the ridiculous. The final scene in which the X-wing fighters speed through the trenches of the Death Star is so real it looks like it was filmed on location, while the plastic Storm Troopers and the inflexible curmudgeon C-3PO look hardly more believable than their action-figure derivatives...
...late Malcolm Muggeridge, British literary curmudgeon, on the royal marriage: "Only fortunetellers, Marxists and Jehovah's Witnesses will venture to prognosticate whether Prince Charles and Lady Diana will actually one day mount the throne as King and Queen of England. In the course of 50 years of knockabout journalism, I have seen too many upheavals of one sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone... Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, 'God bless the Prince...
White Rabbit is about the last day in an 88-year-old woman's life. This may sound like a depressing and dull plot for a book; however, White Rabbit is neither. Instead, it is an engaging and perceptive portrayal of the life of Ruth Caster Hubble, an endearing curmudgeon who lives in the Paradise Lagoon Condominiums in Southern California...
...writing, but Ben Evett doesn't seem to know exactly who he is or why he is on stage. He has a tendency to over- or under-act, and at the wrong times. Jeremy Geidt mumbles too many of his lines, but he's playing an old, near-crazy curmudgeon, so he can be forgiven. Both Evett and Geidt fail to convey and deep understanding of their characters, and come across as flat figures on the stage...
There is a far greater significance to the surprising leftist-rightist handshake which has lingered and become a slow dance, even as Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 looks on in silent disapproval like a curmudgeon civics teacher drafted to chaperone the junior prom. It is a portent of the future. And anyone who is frightened by the religious right had better pay attention...