Word: sulk
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...Castro's last visit to a U.N. event in 1995, U.S. officials naturally snubbed him and left him off the guest list for President Clinton's gala event hosting all the world leaders present. But the wily Cuban strongman, who has outlasted eight U.S. presidents, wasn't about to sulk off to a movie. He simply went back to the same Harlem church he'd addressed in the early '60s for an uproarious pep rally that drew most of the press corps (and the headlines) away from the Clinton event...
...work. It was that they had made him out a fool. Say what you will about a scientist's research, but take care when you defame the scientist. On that day, Goddard--who would ultimately be hailed as the father of modern rocketry--sank into a quarter-century sulk from which he never fully emerged. And from that sulk came some of the most incandescent achievements...
Without a backup plan, they retreated to their castle to sulk...
...neighbors to pass, I was so nearly comatose. But I heard and saw them and everyone was giddy with joy. The most I can make of it is as a glamorized, Noelized karaoke session. Or as an excuse for old people to act like little children, the sort who sulk and laugh at farty noises. I could imagine too that it would be an endearing sort of family tradition to go to The Christmas Revels every year, although I would leave that family at an early...
...contrast the middle manager to the Washington television commentator. Male television performers do have to shave (or formally grow a beard). But TV performers--the talent, as they are contemptuously known by TV producers--are actually encouraged to sulk and obsess about themselves. Most of them have the perquisites of being in charge--the higher pay, the glamour, the deference of the staff--without actually being in charge. They are pampered but powerless, like children. And the producers, who have the real power but not the atmospherics, and who usually work harder, also come to think...