| It must be said it is difficult for any club to have one of these in the captious world of football. |
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| With program rivalries, people are said to be more captious and aware of the shows they are watching. |
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| I do not want to sound captious, but what was happening is essentially my question. |
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| The story is autobiographical, and the tyrannical, captious, arbitrary, and selfish landowner is the author's mother, Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva. |
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| If it is not wide-ranging and erratic, captious and unpredictable, it is not taste but snobbery. |
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| A critic, and not necessarily a captious one, might argue that this title is in that no-man's-land in which paradox verges on contradiction. |
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| The McIlhennys bump along the well-trodden tourist path, she captious, he grouchy. |
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| Is it simply captious to ask, if I had suggested 14 June, whether then it would have been brought back to 31 May? |
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| Through his pen, inanity became animate, and the captious craft of caricature was raised to character study. |
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| By now, his hostile rhetoric has carried him beyond the self-discipline of consistency, and he becomes merely quarrelsome and captious. |
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| Crosby was particularly captious of Waters, arguing that she was, after all, a highly regarded actress and celebrated role model for the African American community. |
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| Now the objector to all of this is charged with being captious, with seeking to impose restraints on activities which lie at the heart of democratic processes. |
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| He's a frank, sometimes cranky widower, at times magnanimous and at others captious. |
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| A rather more captious way of putting your submission seems to be that, and are searching for identity and you do not demonstrate identity by ignoring change. |
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| But even if he succeeds, his credibility as the head of a captious party is likely to crumble. A binding decision against the ESM, on the other hand, could well break up the coalition. |
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| A judge's life, like every other, has in it much of drudgery, senseless bickerings, stupid obstinacies, captious pettyfogging, all disguising and obstructing the only sane purpose which can justify the whole endeavor. |
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| It's got to combine love and friendship, but also, you can't be captious. |
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| God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school. |
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| Even the captions are both captivating and captious. |
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| To call this novel mule-paced is not to be captious. |
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| But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride. |
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