Word: tantruming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them the world's top two women players. And Anna Kournikova lost in the first round. It was the 10th first-round defeat this year for Kournikova, who found yet another loss so galling that when a BBC interviewer suggested that her confidence must be low she threw a tantrum. Kournikova even lost out in the pin-up stakes to Slovakia's statuesque Daniela Hantuchova, recently voted the world's sexiest player in a poll of fans. In 1913 Wimbledon was accorded the title World's Championships on Grass. Though it is the only major championship still played on grass...
...probably times every day where I feel like I lose control." Judging by his new memoir, Serious (Little, Brown; 352 pages) - the title alludes to his catchphrase, "You cannot be serious" - the subject of his wrath nowadays isn't an umpire or an obnoxious fan but his racquet-smashing, tantrum-throwing self. McEnroe the player was obviously torn by inner conflict. During points, he was so in control - solid on the baseline, silky smooth at the net, masterful with both his movement and the ball's. But in between points, he seemed a different man, unable (or unwilling) to control...
...greatest problem with the interpretation, though, is that it does not allow Todd a believable arc. Todd can’t snap during his “Epiphany” because he has already snapped before the story begins; the scene becomes more a temper tantrum than a turning point...
...long before Mohammed Atta learned to fly commercial jets. Make no mistake: if we permit terrorists to strong-arm political concessions in Israel, we shall suffer atrocities that make the spectacle of skyscrapers falling in a plume of smoke look like the product of a child’s tantrum...
...friendly evening of candlepin bowling rapidly degenerated into a gladiatorial fight to the death. One player tried to call a foot fault on another to invalidate her final frame. “She’ll find it really funny,” he lied. Another threw a temper tantrum after two successive balls landed in the gutter. Enraged, she flung her next four shots down the lane without even looking. This might have been less upsetting if she had not scored higher with those balls than one companion did all evening. He would stride up to the lane, confident...