| Beneath this curmudgeonly exterior lurks the soft heart and even softer head of a hapless romantic. |
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| He takes his shots at me, but he has an acerbic, curmudgeonly style that gives me a laugh and he happily owns up to his prejudices. |
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| His beautifully enunciated vowels and curmudgeonly misogyny were so accurately rendered that he took over the stage whenever he appeared. |
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| Overpriced in my opinion, but at least on the brink of bearability, even with my curmudgeonly grumbling. |
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| Everyone who posts there is interesting and insightful, but I confess to having a soft spot for the curmudgeonly posts of Tom Smith. |
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| Just one more curmudgeonly self-hating conservative tax analyst and we have a trend! |
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| This attempt at self-denial lasted approximately one minute, after which I gave up and found myself agreeing with all the bad-tempered, curmudgeonly opinions being aired. |
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| James Caan should be able to play a curmudgeonly drunk grandpa in his sleep and still get laughs. |
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| James Watson, of the Nobel Prize-winning team that discovered the structure of DNA, played up his curmudgeonly persona to the max. |
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| Many of the books we see these days perched perfectly in high street seasonal window displays are written by static, worn-out, curmudgeonly blatherskites. |
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| In 1928 curmudgeonly magician Stanley Crawford leaves his fiancee in London to visit his Aunt Vanessa on the French Riviera. |
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| But sometimes there's this curmudgeonly mood, too, when we want to hurry past them. |
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| If it were only the party that was premature, it would be rather curmudgeonly of me to object, but we are anticipating the Constitution in other more important ways. |
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| I am too crotchety and curmudgeonly and begrudging and jaded: I turned 67 rather recently, and I've lost that natural instinct to believe everything I hear, but I would worry a little about the timeline of the five years. |
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| There is an endearing side to this curmudgeonly cat burglar that surfaces most clearly in his regular visits to the local library. |
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| It featured Old Bill, a curmudgeonly soldier with trademark walrus moustache and balaclava, and proved a moralebooster with downbeat troops. |
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| It drew sniffy reviews from curmudgeonly critics but made pots of money. |
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| Which well-known English actor played the opinionated and curmudgeonly Stan Carter in EastEnders? |
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| Mr Turner is the outstanding result, a film that introduces the painter as a portly fellow with a top hat and a curmudgeonly expression in repose. |
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| Vincent in which she plays Daka, a pregnant Russian stripper and the girlfriend of Bill Murray's bawdy, curmudgeonly Vietnam war vet, Vincent. |
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| But, starting with the pilot, the drama makes a bad gamble: it takes for granted that we'll care about the fates of its shutoff, curmudgeonly power brokers, yet never gives us much reason to do so. |
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| You may think this stance is How to spoil a good drink curmudgeonly, but you obviously haven't been handed a pint of cider full of sliced cucumber, as I was on Saturday night. |
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| Shunting them there in a decrepit van is the curmudgeonly Claude. |
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| The British actor, 53, was paid a reported PS250,000 an episode and won two Golden Globes for his long-running role as curmudgeonly Dr Gregory House. |
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| Frugal gardeners will wonder why they ever dithered about the cost, and curmudgeonly gardeners, who think tulips belong in Holland, will foreswear their pessimistic outlook. |
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| So all this curmudgeonly woofle now, comes as a mystery to me. |
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| He can still react spikily to what the considers a curmudgeonly question but he had a bit of friendly banter with some of his critics at a press conference last week. |
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