Word: petulante
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Some of these are well-aimed jabs, others petulant protests. Almost all are born of the frustrations inevitable to a nation that has undertaken a role of world leadership unprecedented in human history. State's performance must be measured against that role in all its immensity and complexity, at...
The industrial revolution was born in 18th century England, and British working attitudes hardly seem to have changed since. Nowadays petulant, cosseted and truculent, British labor will down tools at the merest hint of any slight or insult. It will jealously defend a host of obsolete prerogatives and work practices...
None shows this better than his masterpiece, the Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine. According to legend, Catherine was executed and borne heavenward by angels where her devotion was rewarded when, having refused many suitors, she was betrothed to the Infant Christ by the Virgin Mary. It should be a supremely...
Petulant Performance. As a reprisal against the proceedings, the Red air circus was a petulant and ineffectual performance. So was its counterpart on the ground, where the Communists tied up traffic for nine days on the autobahns linking West Berlin with West Germany. Civilian and allied military cars were stalled...
The Name of the Game. Yet so petulant have many Washington newsmen become that David Lawrence, no ardent Johnson admirer himself, has taken the trouble to point out that the press has no God-given right to "cross-examine the Chief Executive," and that "it is not the obligation of...