Word: peevish
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...discovery, reported in Nature, reveals an esoteric interchange between the two men about the theory of relativity. Einstein's observations range from the specific (he computed the radius of the universe as R=10' lightyears) to the metaphoric ("I compare space to a cloth ...") to the peevish ("Your solution corresponds to no physical possibility"). But the two scholars (De Sitter was 45 and Einstein 38 in 1917) frequently break off their strings of formulas to complain to each other about their frail health...
...amount of sterilized sociological data can refute the fact that inside the "intellectual mafia" the elite sometimes gangs up to wield its power in peevish and arbitrary ways. Still Kadushin's study should reduce some of the paranoia that frequently afflicts non-New York intellectuals. For example, the reasons that Jews account for one half of his list are historical and cultural, not part of some ethnic conspiracy. Moreover, some of the nastiest splits and squabbles in literary New York have occurred between Jews. When Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz published Making It in 1968, for example, another Jewish editor...
...bolted to a table for security. The robot's brain is a computer, made partly from components cannibalized from an RCA Spectra 70. Plugged in and turned on, he can lecture to the entire class. He can also recognize students by their voices and, in his own peevish-sounding tones, can simultaneously question five different students wearing earphones and take their pushbutton replies...
...tell me I am grown old and peevish and supercilious-name the geniuses of 1774, and I submit it. The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will perhaps be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and in time a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru...
...might seem peevish to object to a production which gives women the spotlight. But in order to give the suffragettes full credit in the historical context, it must be made more clear that their opponents had as much determination as they did--and more power. We should not rejoice merely at the sight of the oppressed besting the oppressors: for the full impact of the struggle for women's rights to hit home, we must understand that the determination which led the women to triumph sprang not simply from their frustration and anger, but from the faith that their position...