Word: petulante
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I couldn't help noticing the petulant remark in TIME by that proponent of Dollar Christianity, Barry Goldwater. Characteristically, Barry values his money above the needs and happiness of an infant.
After manfully weathering a chichi London wedding as a satin-suited, ostrich-plumed Lord Fauntleroyish page, the Earl of Sunderland, 5, grandson of the Duke of Marlborough and distant cousin to Sir Winston Churchill, foundered at the subsequent Savoy Hotel reception. His stiff upper lip curling, out came a petulant...
Prominent in arranging the settlement was manicured Moss Hart, who treated the combatants like the petulant children they were. Surreptitiously, Playwright-Director Hart herded the negotiating teams into separate rooms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel ("The producers had air-conditioning and a view of the street," pointed out an Equity...
Khrushchev was tough, petulant, vital, bantering, implacable. The U.S. was calm, curious, confident, challenging. Khrushchev staked claim to rocket power and the inevitable acclaim of history. Millions of Americans, lining his route, countered with a crash of unapplauding silence more eloquent of unshaken resolution than batteries of rockets on the...
Stanley Jay is drolly Pickwickian as the head-borough Verges. But Ralph Drischell has extracted little of the meat from the self-inflated, malapropistic Dogberry. Robert Evans fails to convey the villainy of Don John, who openly proclaims his evilness several times to the audience; he is nothing worse than...