Word: petulante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such diligent documentation also characterizes Trageédie's rich farrago of Gaullicisms. De Gaulle may indeed disavow everything in the book, but nearly every acerbic quip and egocentric rumination has the ring of authentic Gaullist hubris. The general emerges as imperious in private as he is in public...
Civilization Transformed. By 1530, when a summit conference of Reforma tion leaders convened in Augsburg to draw up a common statement of faith (the Augsburg Confession) leadership of the movement had begun to pass out of Luther's hands. He continued to preach and teach the Bible in Wittenberg...
The new European actresses, for the most part, are a flat negation of everything Hollywood thinks a girl should have. Rita Tushingham, though her eyes are a glowing glory, has a porridgy complexion and a walloping set of country calves. Julie Christie has a face straight out of Terry and...
For Michigan's Governor George Wilcken Romney, the six-state 8,270-mile western tour he concluded last week should have been a breeze. The territory was generally friendly, the audiences for the most part restricted to fellow Republicans and brother Mormons. No rivals have yet ventured out on...
Alan Richards is far too surly and petulant to make Jean, Berenger's fop friend, as funny as he should be in the opening scenes. It may be that this petulance is the only way to make Berenger's lines work as well as they do, but I'm not...