Word: sulk
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...psychiatrist who knew the lingo could make a million at the track. Some race horses love mud; others sulk if they get their hooves wet. All horses are brought up on grass, but that does not mean they can run on it. Nobody knows why, or ever will-unless he can talk to horses...
Jack, a crafty bully, stalks away in a sulk one afternoon, and most of the boys desert Ralph and Piggy to follow him and put on face paint, dance around fires and feast on roast pig. The new savages deify the beast that is supposed to haunt the mountaintop; as an offering to the terrible thing, a pig's head is struck on a sharpened stick and left in the woods. Readers of Golding's novel know the nature of the beast before the boys do; the movie audience is kept in witless suspense until it is revealed...
...provide ample opportunity for meeting their speakers, and excuse for calling on local VIPs. There are the academic clubs (philosophy, history and so forth), the newspaper Cherwell or the magazine Isis, the political clubs, the religious groups. Just because dons don't join him for breakfast, must the American sulk and feel injured...
...photocopying-machine producer. He rapidly moved into manufacturing cameras and watches, set up a lingerie factory, won a Coca-Cola franchise, and last month opened a ten-story ladies' apparel store on Tokyo's Ginza. Ichimura attributes his unusual career to an equally unusual source: "a Great Sulk" that began when, at 15, he was refused money to attend an acrobatic show-and ended only when he decided to go into business for himself...
Against Rhodes's I'm-ahead-so-you've-got-to-come-get-me tactics, Di Salle has only recently come out of his sulk. At his best he is very effective, with a combination of good humor and emotion that can swing votes. He tackles the touchy issue of his tax increases squarely. "The highway worker complains about the gasoline tax," Di Salle tells his audiences. "But he still has his job and is building more highways, isn't he? The schoolteacher complains about the sales tax, but she is making a better salary...