Mature students were a rarity and often a target for irascible teachers, so medical school was uncomfortable. |
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Keen to open up their own bistro, Robin and Vicky enter into a business partnership with her irascible father James. |
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Ed is voluble, softhearted, irascible, loyal to friends, and drinkative when it comes to single-malts. |
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But when this self-involvement is threatened, well, then we see how irascible, irritable and bad tempered stoners can be. |
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An irascible bachelor, he was often vitriolic in his criticism of the work of other artists, and jealous of their successes. |
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Finally there is the wonderfully irascible Jody who sits spikily in judgement on her hapless friends. |
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Morgan, an apparently irascible old codger, is quite literally the brains of the outfit. |
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As a public spokesman for seismology and earthquake hazard mitigation, Richter often showed an irascible personality. |
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Our common historical portrait of him consists mostly of negative assertions that he was irascible, uncivil, and secretive. |
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You've got to admit, he's got longevity, a little patience there, even though he's a bit irascible after all these years. |
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Julie Walters is on unassailable form as an irascible retired actress in a bitter-sweet, very British comedy drama. |
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I know that she is a poor widow, and that this innkeeper happens to be a very irascible person. |
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He's nothing if not honest, blunt, irascible, generous, laconic, witty and enigmatic. |
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Because Papa grew so grouchy and irascible as his health failed, I wondered at times how many people really liked him. |
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Dunmore was certainly a haughty, irascible man, who made enemies easily and often. |
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In the TV show, Bruno pointed out to his irascible music teacher, Mr Sharofsky, that modern technology made traditional instruments redundant. |
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In truth, he often proved an irascible, frustrating curmudgeon at the tribunal but people loved him for it. |
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Yet he was famously thin-skinned and irascible, as I have good reason to remember, if any criticism became directed at himself. |
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But the picture drawn by Volkmar Braunbehrens's 1989 biography is of a serious, steady, occasionally irascible man. |
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His sense of humour was dry, he could be irascible, and he was razor sharp. |
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Luc patiently visits his brother, uncomplainingly sticking by the bedside of this difficult and irascible man when everyone else deserts him. |
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The irascible judge is known for not allowing much to hold back his biting observations. |
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She effortlessly recalled people and events and could quote at length the irascible characters of Montana history. |
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What he doesn't mention is the mood swing from the honeysweet to the irascible. |
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Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the Senate's loveably irascible socialist, might take the opportunity to speak truth to weary beat reporters. |
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After 13 years playing the stubborn, long-pocketed and irascible Inspector Morse, this week will see the veteran actor finally wave goodbye to his most famous role. |
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He was a famously difficult and irascible man, some might even have characterized as mad, but was unfailingly courteous, warm and hospitable towards me. |
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When I opened James Howard Kunstler's first nonfiction book four years ago, the irascible, bombastic tone of his descriptions immediately put me off. |
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This particular image consultant appears to have neglected his own image, or maybe he is just happy with being cynical, self-centred, irascible and insufferable. |
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Campbell, who's lived on the reservation since 1970, is a lifelong, irascible opponent of nuclear power in general, and the Prairie Island plant in particular. |
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King is also said to be a moody, irascible, and emotional cuss. |
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The books usually revolved around the exploits of a Northern family, the Brandons, and in particular the dour son of the family Carter and the irascible Uncle Mort. |
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Looking to her rearview mirror, she sees one solitary car behind her and is thankful that she must only contend with one irascible driver and no more. |
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The irascible Jim Godbolt, a long-time friend of Ronnie Scott, ruffled a few feathers 20 years ago when he published his book on the early decades of British jazz. |
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Two hours later they discovered the best bar in Faro was a barge docked on the banks of the town, where they parlayed for fuel and pinga with the irascible owner, Antonio. |
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It didn't take Manny long to clash with another irascible guard. |
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Or the sweat of her fellow-conspirator and rescuer, a gingery, irascible land agent who was also the driver of her getaway car? |
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They can be truly hard-hearted and irascible at times, and it is difficult for them to open their hearts to love. |
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Blind Westerners have but to listen to their Hosannas to the all merciful and irascible God, to their Allah Akbar-Allah Akbar hollering. |
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The chances that his irritation over Mr Turner's big-category exclusion may trigger some irascible words on the podium are pretty high. |
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Premature though it may be to write Apple off again, the irascible Mr Jobs may have to find some new tricks. |
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The irascible Donald Duck and the bumbling Goofy came later, but Mickey was the first in a long line from Disney. |
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Scant consolation, no doubt, to the irascible Rergis, memorable for his ire as he sat in the stands during the last match against Ireland. |
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Paul Soles, veteran actor of the Canadian stage and screen and host of CBC's Take 30 for many years, plays the irascible legal giant. |
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In june 94, the new intendant decided to keep his job, send to his mother his wife after a difficult cohabitation with these irascible animals. |
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The British establishment was furious, and it was the irascible Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who lead the fight-back. |
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The Southern recension of the epic states that in an earlier birth as Nalayani she was married to Maudgalya, an irascible sage afflicted with leprosy. |
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He struggled with his brilliant but irascible secretary of state, William Seward, to control the direction of foreign policy. |
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Wagner, as irascible and cynical as he can be, is a subtly empathetic writer. |
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In his unfortunate absence at this far remove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever. |
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In the novel's third section, Zoe is forty, and the man who had seemed to her like a character out of a Russian novel — irascible, but strange and brilliant — has become her jailer, delighting in diligent belittlement. |
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He was marooned on one of the Juan Fernandez islands off Chile for alleged insubordination to his irascible captain. |
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Theo became an art dealer and Vincent's main source of financial and emotional support. Van Gogh is irascible, engaging, intelligent, touchy, high-minded, well read, rebellious and pigheaded. |
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A few years after the Cuban crisis the dean of Canadian historians, the irascible Donald Creighton, lauded the government for its reluctance to respond to the American lead. |
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The witty, irascible and fiercely proud Hagar, faced with the prospect of a nursing home, sets out on a preposterous journey in search of the safe haven of an abandoned ocean side house she remembers from happier times. |
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He's an irascible old codger, and usually spot on in his pronouncements. |
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Indiana coach Bob Knight was his usual irascible self Friday night as his Hoosiers went out with a first-round loss to Boston College. |
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The movie tells the picaresque and touching story of the politically-incorrect, fully-lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky. |
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Though the normally irascible Williamson didn't actually show his protégé how to play the harmonica over the next few years, James assimilated his signature licks just the same. |
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It suggests an overestimation of Congress's strength, and the party's failure to reassure the TC's irascible leader, Mamata Banerjee, is careless at best. |
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Stressing his humanity is how Malek draws the portrait of a person who is accessible, generous, a little irascible and anticonformist, a kind of monument where the Lebanese flag flutters. |
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I am naturally irascible, and if I could have shaken this negative gentleman vigorously, the relief would have been immense. |
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The initially irascible and slightly sinister Doctor quickly mellowed into a more compassionate figure. |
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