Word: petulante
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Much-heralded pitcher Mark Lemongello hurled more chairs than strikes last year, and wound up the season with a petulant 6.29 ERA.
The Knapps of Falling in Place are typical. Marriage for Louise and John survives by inertia. A divorce requires action and that is precisely what they are unwilling to take, or incapable of taking. Instead they have a vague arrangement: John comes home to Connecticut on weekends for picnics and...
In any sport-wide contract dispute, public opinion and the press seem to lay the presumption of guilt on the players. The players, who make the six-figure salaries that most Americans will never even approach, appear to be motivated in their labor action only by the petulant greed of...
"I'm not sure I love it," a woman says I in the petulant monotone of the Total Shopper, her eyes two emerald-rimmed pinpoints inside a huge cloud of cherry fox. She is definitely post-mink. Her personality calls for skunk, or perhaps tree sloth (to match her...
Part of the trouble is in the writing and part in the playing. For a boy-meets-girl play to exercise its potential magic, there must be beguiling charm and a contagious affection. Farrow and Perkins project neither. Farrow's Phoebe is naive without the endearing thread of home...