Word: peevishly
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...approach to policy issues. That Kaplan and other critics of Bush are still invited to these festivals shows the White House’s commitment to culture. But more importantly, it shows the White House’s magnanimity, which runs contrary to the stereotype of Bush as a peevish...
...that's a cardinal sin in the bumptious, peevish world of jazz, where, as it's said about academic politics, the knives are so sharp because the stakes are so low. The grievance? Along comes a young, good-looking, white jazz singer who mostly performs familiar standards and stays pretty close to the melody--Diana Krall was the last such transgressor--and an entire generation of innovators gets ignored. Sad to say, this is absolutely accurate. It's also irrelevant--this kid can sing...
...while attempting to perfect her communication skills she had kept a mental list of all the puzzling and troubling circumstances around her. Now that the communicative barrier has been mostly demolished, these queries and quandaries come bursting forth to couple with the cold-fusion energy of most toddlers, transforming peevish monosyllabic terrible-twos into an inquisitive whirling dervishes, ready to drink in the world with one great gulp...
...lawyer in memory has ever won so much by losing. During the entire postelection ordeal, Boies was at its center daily, showing the all-news nation the astonishing gifts that have been thrilling his clients and irritating his more peevish opponents for three decades. Fourteen years ago, the New York Times Magazine certified his status with a cover piece headlined THE WALL STREET LAWYER EVERYONE WANTS. The story referred to "the biggest case of his, or any other corporate lawyer's, career"--a phrase that has since been attached to Boies as frequently as descriptions of his frumpy suits...
...considered your nest egg (the generation behind just won't have enough buyers). And your neighbors' children, simultaneously burdened with the cost of your aging and victimized by the one thing you'll hold onto--your political power--will boil with resentment. Your own kids may get especially peevish: even today, says Rand Corp. economist James P. Smith, "half the adult children with parents who die over age 70 get zero. Parents are living longer, with more health expenses. The first thing to go...is bequests to children...