Word: petulante
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Lesser men seized on his exalting of the "select minority" to forward the Nazi cause, conveniently disregarding his characteristic distinction that "the select man is not the petulant person who thinks himself superior to the rest but the man who demands more of himself than the rest . . ." When Spain overthrew...
The success of Dürer's work led the way for other German artists-Matthias Grünewald, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Holbein the Younger and Martin Luther's great friend, Lucas Cranach-whose work made Germany for half a century the leader of the Northern Renaissance. The...
New Directions. Increasingly petulant of late, and bothered by sieges of insomnia, Nehru has been secretly quarreling with Cabinet and party colleagues. The strict cold war neutrality to which he pledged India has gradually been changing into a program to undermine such Western undertakings as the Manila pact and to...
As for the menopause, it "provides a setting for a climax of all the feelings a woman may have about her uterus . . . It is expected that at the 'change of life' she will become emotionally unstable, petulant, demanding, irascible . . . frigid; will 'lose her womanhood,' will become...
For sheer petulant arrogance, your July 5 article, "Alone," would be hard to equal. But when you add to it a charge of timidity against a nation that has in its time fought and beaten (usually at unfavorable odds) the French, Dutch, Russians, Spaniards, Italians, Chinese, Japanese and Germans and...