Word: peevish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think in the beginning, [HUCTW Director] Bill [Jaeger] thought we were being peevish. Then we gave them the data, and they were blown away," Taylor said...
...astonished by Melissa Crocker's "Editorial Notebook" (Sept. 21) on the honorary degree ceremony arranged for Nelson Mandela. One has to wonder at the impulse which drove her to pen such a peevish piece. I would with no hesitation place Mandela among the most extraordinary figures of the twentieth century...
...annoying as they are at first, though, these anomalies soon find explication as the narrative of Harlan's life unfolds, rendering them the endearing nuances of a magnificent woman rather than the peevish traits of a foolish stranger...
...Peevish Henry Adams, who lived across the square from the White House and was always dreading that the President might stomp over for breakfast (T.R. thought nothing of guzzling 12 eggs at a sitting), tried to formulate the dynamic theory of history that would explain, at least to Adams' comfort, why America was accelerating into the future at such a frightening rate. His theory was eventually published in The Education of Henry Adams but makes less sense today than his brilliant description of the President as perhaps the fundamental motive force of our age: "Power when wielded by abnormal energy...
...wonderful, full of interesting harmonies and surprising contrasts. Unfortunately, the beauty of his work is too often obliterated by the shoddy instrumental delivery or weak chorus, if not utterly disguised by the distractingly awful acting. Dido, even in her more musically successful moments, maintains a dreadful expression of peevish nervousness. Even as Belinda liltingly intones of the beautiful queen, "Her eyes confess the flame her tongue denies," all that this reviewer could observe in Bruckmann's eye was a sour distaste for the whole situation...