Word: petulante
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Alan married Alice Carey, in a petulant rebound from Julie. Julie married Van Schoeck. Everyone lived happily ever after-demonstrating the possibility of the impossible.
Faces pinched with arrogance, petulant with breeding. (P. 17.)
Francine Larrimore, the star, saves the character from being a hybrid bud. She seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and...
". . . Juvenal pictured the fall of the Roman Empire when he described the Roman woman as 'lewd, petulant, reeling ripe with wine.' The modern woman is going the same way."
The warning to Congress is neither petulant nor threatening. The legislative branch of the government has steadily declined in prestige since the World War. An appeal for "Congressional expression, not mere avoidance" brings to a focus attention which has been wandering throughout the session from resolutions on international conferences to...