Word: petulante
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Instead of an outcry, Harry Truman's invitation was greeted by an embarrassed murmur at the bad taste in lumping together the Korean dead, traffic dead and partisan politics all in one petulant outburst.
IT has been truly said that Shaw's anger never made enemies. Irish evasiveness, sociability and energy made him wish resolutely to cut the best figure on the thinnest ice. He kept up his stage role to the last. He was sometimes petulant in the publicity he delighted in...
"God What a Liar!" He stayed that way. This collection of letters and excerpts from his journals, printed with fragments of an autobiography and part of an unfinished book (Leo died in 1949), shows mainly how bitterly he resented it. Many of the letters are petulant complaints about Gertrude'...
The story of Turandot comes from the same shop as Prokofiev's delightful The Love for Three Oranges, but it is a far less juicy piece of fruit. Puccini's librettists, like Prokofiev, took their story from an 18th Century "fable," i.e., play, of Count Carlo Gozzi, who...
Thelma Jordon (Paramount), in telling the story of a fall guy, has a production polish as bright as a new dime but uses a plot that was minted long ago. Wendell Corey is a petulant assistant district attorney with an ever-loving wife (Joan Tetzel) and two movie-perfect children...