Word: sulk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow ex-convict from the McNeil Island penitentiary in Washington State said that Manson was a strangely passive person who would sulk if attacked rather than strike back. He tried with considerable success to get others to do his bidding: "He had a certain smile that would always get to people. He tried to hypnotize them. He always got other people to supply him with the necessities...
After making her abdication speech, Dame Sibyl retired to her comfy manor house to sulk. Her butler told callers that she was not at home. But the Dame's problems were far from solved. Guernsey's head of government, Sir William Arnold, announced that "the people of Sark must make up their own minds. Knowing Sark people as I do, I think they will wish to continue going their own way" Dame Sibyl's great-grandmother paid $14,400-for Sark in 1852. It was now beginning to look as if the Dame could not even give...
...example, the South Vietnamese army must be strengthened so that soldiers provide real security in villages rather than sulk in their camps. Then one can crack down on more forms of corruption. The task is to coordinate security with reform; neither alone has much effect. And an army which does its job of security well and knows that its enemy is increasingly demoralized will be more amenable to political reforms...
Using nonprofessional actors in all but the principal roles, Forman has collected a gallery of picture-perfect types. They not only look right; they smash the formulas of sex comedy. They sleep through situations that usually call for sobby sentiment, squabble when they should be snoring, sulk when they should be squirming. Altogether human, thus seething with quirky surprises, they satisfy the primal need of festivalgoers who forever sit down in darkness hoping that small miracles may come to light...
...century, rooms in even the grandest houses led into each other. In those days, as Lewis Mumford has pointed out, a lady's bedchamber still served as a reception room for her guests; only gradually did it become a retreat (boudoir is derived from the French bonder, to sulk). Privacy became valued as individualism and the ego became valued. In earlier times, retreating into solitude was a religious act; now privacy became a devotion in the new secular religion of the self...