Word: sulked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ease with his natural appeal - his Georgeness - that he needn't rev up or Method up a performance to screaming volume. After all, he came out of TV, where the goal is to be ingratiating, not from the stage or indie films, where the goal is threefold: sulk, simmer and explode. Clooney glides and purrs through his movies (and his public appearances) with a grace both manly and feline. He's a man's man and a woman's; and I know a few frustrated Democrats who say that, if he'd run for President, he'd be their...
...wearied of the nonsense of the spotlight but never of football's simple joys. Losing well was a knack he never mastered, and he hated himself when he played poorly. At those times, or when injury stopped him surfing for a while, he could sulk with the best of them. Life after football will test him. He is gone before he was ready, leaving behind a game that will be the lesser for his absence...
...Happier players. As seen at last year's U.S. Open and numerous events since, this is the best innovation in tennis since yellow balls. As well as appealing to everyone's sense of justice, viewers no longer have to watch players fume and sulk like prima donnas when a close call goes against them. Fears that Hawk-Eye would hold up play excessively have proved unfounded: it's quick, reliable and altogether satisfying...
While Joyce’s female coworkers seek out “terror sex” with surviving firefighters, she stays home to change diapers—she and Marshall have two children, “their divorce’s civilian casualties”—and sulk about how “she hadn’t had any terror sex, just terror Cherry Garcia.” The divorce negotiations continue, laden with new searing acrimony...
...that permanence, researchers believe, that makes siblings so valuable a rehearsal tool for later life. Adulthood, after all, is practically defined by peer relationships--the workplace, a marriage, the church building committee. As siblings, we may sulk and fume but by nighttime we still return to the same twin beds in the same shared room. Peace is made when one sib offers a toy or shares a thought or throws a pillow in a mock provocation that releases the lingering tension in a burst of roughhousing. Somewhere in there is the early training for the e-mail joke that breaks...