He also is a curious philosopher who dares to venture into seldom-trod territory that more cantankerous cogitators ardently avoid. |
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He was crotchety and cantankerous, but he was always a familiar face to see on the scene. |
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Everyone is upstaged by Eileen Atkins as wealthy Miss Matilda Crawley, the cantankerous dame who sponsors Becky's social ascent. |
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I got too close to one old cantankerous grandaddy and he grunted a telling off and moved just enough to send me skeltering. |
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He's watching, but also commenting from the sidelines in an amusingly cantankerous and sometimes doleful way. |
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As someone who speaks fluent Spanish, I found myself swearing in Spanish when my people got cantankerous. |
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Now we have responsibility for my 88 year old cantankerous maiden aunt who suffers from moderately severe dementia and resides in a rest home. |
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I blurted out to my kind friend that I had absolutely no interest in that cantankerous, melancholy old woman! |
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He was always known as Captain Jessie, a cantankerous old duffer nearing his eightieth year. |
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She was a cantankerous old dear and as deaf as a doorpost, but we had always been on friendly terms, and I had never quarrelled with her. |
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Much like the late-lamented, cantankerous Mr Dahl, most children revel in the gleefully grotesque and delightfully disgusting. |
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This isn't like the cantankerous old Johnboy we've come to know and loathe, and frankly I find this a bit disturbing, but a welcome change. |
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To anybody that could read no deeper than the physical, he was just as grumpy and cantankerous as always. |
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The cantankerous old lady she had worked for for six years had been good to her, in her gruff way. |
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They used to do a sketch as two cantankerous old dons forever inventing new ways to insult one another. |
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His cantankerous old mother and frustrated spinster sister are a constant drain on his increasingly shaky resources. |
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There are no doubt wise and astute teenagers, just as there are foolish and cantankerous old folks. |
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Like all of us, he could be grumpy and cantankerous, but he was never mean-spirited in deed or thought. |
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He's a cantankerous old man, set in his ways and prone to sulking to get what he wants. |
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And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons. |
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Holmes investigates the possible spontaneous combustion of a cantankerous old man. |
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Everyone's been kicked out of a spot by an old, cantankerous gramps at some point. |
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I was paging through some Arthur Schopenhauer, a brilliant, cantankerous, whoring son of this city. |
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Of all of the anthias, the lyretail is just about the most cantankerous and territorial. |
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She confesses that part of the reason the farm spares the cantankerous Wilbur is because she saved him when he was small. |
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After almost 30 years and countless band members, prolific Mancunian bard Mark E Smith is still as cantankerous and unpredictable as ever. |
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They're cantankerous and cussed and refuse to obey the rules, but they're like naughty schoolboys enjoying a second childhood. |
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Gourmet dog food will transform your cantankerous mutt into an obedient show dog. |
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At 178 pounds was the one and only Cassius Clay, who was cantankerous, garrulous and obstreperous. |
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At first glance he seemed like such a stuffy person, even cantankerous at times. |
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He had seen grubby, cantankerous men reduced to pitiableness by slighter but nevertheless relentless syndromes, the same shovelled out eye-sockets. |
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The most dangerous animal to encounter when walking, I discovered, is not a lion but a cantankerous male buffalo. |
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I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. |
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He may be near-deaf, he's getting on, but he remains in boisterous, cantankerous and irrepressible spirit. |
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Likewise exploit the heat to your advantage and position cantankerous old relatives directly in the sun post the big nosh-up. |
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The famously cantankerous Indiana basketball coach joined Letterman shortly after helming the Hoosiers to the NCAA championship. |
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He was an All-Star, he rebounded and scored, and he was cantankerous, which makes him a perfect roomie for J. R. Smith. |
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But sometimes, we're told, they're cantankerous to the point of being positively repellent. |
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When the cantankerous old miller dies of a heart attack, he bequeaths his property to his eldest son, his donkey to the second, and the mill cat to his youngest son Mark. |
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Lil' Leo is back with his pedal-plane street show in the company of his cantankerous mother. |
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The three, all cantankerous and loud-mouthed, almost spoke to Mayor Abraham D. Beame as equals. |
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There is none of the cantankerous joking that I associate with hardware stores when working men meet. |
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She was a character actress who specialized in either cantankerous or kindly older women for three decades, simply by knitting or unknitting her eyebrows. |
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What delightfully cantankerous plays we are left with in an inimitably provocative idiom. |
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Now, at almost 60, she has grown into a crotchety, cantankerous old woman who, nonetheless, has a deeply sensitive underside and a great affection for the children she minds. |
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First up, a classic profile of the cantankerous but lovable Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko. |
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It was ugly, cantankerous, simple enough for any farmhand to understand and fix, and indomitable. |
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We pass from reams of conversation, or cantankerous monologue, to throes of extreme violence, then back to the flood of words — most of them to do with buying, selling, slaying, whoring, or doing time. |
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Older members of the family may be more cantankerous than ever but listen to what's being said underneath the grumpiness. |
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Nina was thrilled, muttering her cantankerous joy that I was getting out of the house. |
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To Chicago he was still two-fisted, hard-drinking, cantankerous. |
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Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation. |
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Our inquisitor, by turns cantankerous and plaintive, mourns the decline of butter churns and wonders under what circumstances — impending death, perhaps — it might be acceptable to molest a candy striper. |
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I still remember how disappointed I was by this cantankerous book. |
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Give your tracks organic life with the warmth, warble and warping of classic echo effects without ever wrestling with cantankerous vintage hardware! |
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A wry spinster, a sonorous priest, a reformed party girl, and a cantankerous Cape Breton matriarch, are all witnesses to a twenty-year interrupted love story. |
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A cantankerous old git he may be, but his final days were full of emotion. |
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To achieve more rapid growth he will need to introduce a series of big economic reforms, some of which Mr Calderón attempted during his presidency, only to see them get stuck in Mexico's cantankerous Congress. |
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When a normally upbeat person becomes cantankerous and aggressive, however, or a usually social individual suddenly turns into a recluse, there is definitely cause for concern. |
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Julien, a slightly cantankerous old man with a huge butterfly collection, decides to set off to look for the Isabelle a both rare and valuable butterfly. |
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Igbos, from the southeast, like my family, are supposedly domineering and money-grabbing, while Yorubas, from the southwest, are seen as cantankerous and treacherous. |
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It's a place where you are as likely to end up in eternal limbo with a cantankerous jinni as you are to be hog-tied and gagged in the trunk of a car. |
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