Word: petulante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But other switches don't make it. Miss Rosenthal has trouble in her flip-flops between being a character and a disgruntled actress. She's petulant and funny as the latter, but too timid and line-swallowing as the former. She should go at being a scatterbrained maid and occasional...
In gist, Marat/Sade shows Sade's little company reenacting the death of the Revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat at the hand of the Royalist Charlotte Corday, before a stage audience of Charenton's director and his lady. But the murder is strung out by the philosophical intrusions of Sade, who...
Fun Man. Pudgy and sometimes petulant as a bobbysoxer, Luci has evolved into a slim, articulate, engaging girl-woman who has been able to weather the limelight with considerable poise and-it seems to some-greater relish than her pleas for privacy would suggest. The impression she conveys obviously concerns...
In a Chicago speech before the faithful from the Cook County Democratic machine, he fired off a petulant homily that struck most observers as intemperate, ill-timed and self-serving. Instead of offering a rational discussion of the Administration's reaction to the desperate idiosyncrasies reflected in Premier Nguyen...
Dan Chumley's Bertram, on the other hand, is a puzzlement. Thoughtless and rash Bertram may be, but it is difficult to see how he can be the whining child that Chumley would have him in the first two acts. And when he reappears later on, sporting a silky little...