We are brought, with elegance and style, with dry wit and orneriness, to elegy. |
The post-election gloom of the nation's leading Republicans has yielded to a mood of orneriness akin to that of sports fans convinced that their team has lost the big game on a botched call. |
The shorter and colder days are causing a setting-in of impending-winter orneriness around the house. |
But it's his feel for family that makes this novel and his appreciation for orneriness keeps the sentimentality at bay. |
This was a sop perhaps to his constituents, who pride themselves on the orneriness of Vermont and already have another independent, Bernie Sanders, once the socialist mayor of Burlington, in the House. |
This is a factor in remaining steady to shot or halting on command, when temptation or orneriness overcomes their training. |