Word: sullens
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...beginning. Peary was never reticent about his hunger for glory. Like Douglas MacArthur, he wrote ringing letters about ambition to his mother. Resting in his igloo after the last polar trip, he contemplated elaborate designs for his mausoleum. But according to Matt Henson's recollections, Peary was sullen and evasive about their exact positions at the top of the world. He asserted his claim to the Pole only after returning to civilization and learning that the world was already crediting the achievement to Frederick A. Cook, a Brooklyn physician. The stakes were high for both men: the polar itch...
Race day in North Wilkesboro dawns gray and sullen. Heavy rains have turned the red clay infield into an axle-deep quagmire. At noon, ten Petty crewmen, proud as Praetorian Guards, push his glittering racer down pit lane for inspection. At 1:20 p.m. Army skydivers flutter to a gooey landing in the infield. Then a preacher leads the drivers in prayer and the rhine-stoned Carolina Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver...
With that, the Mississippi itself became a sullen, swollen giant, toppling levees, inundating homes and farm lands and roaring through diversionary dikes. In St. Louis the river peaked at 39.8 ft.-its highest level since...
...month-long hearing ordeal, Gray had wilted from a brisk and confident nominee to a subdued and almost sullen shadow of the strong leader that the FBI needs. He had been hurt most by the Administration's obsessive concern with preventing disclosure of whatever the FBI was learning about White House connections to the Watergate bugging and political espionage...
...ugly thing; this sullen hateful dead mouth; with no remembrances of the soft or ungentle touches it once knew from flowers, or snowballs, a night-stick, a stone, or clean linen. It knows only its tight evil grip to the harsh teeth behind...