| Christmas is the right mix of sappiness and sassiness to put even the grinchiest grump in the holiday spirit. |
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| If so, I'll happily settle into middle age and grump at the advertising people pandering to those young tykes with no respect. |
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| I'm not talking about the loveable grump who means well, or some kind of gruff tough guy with a spongy-soft interior. |
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| I was grading for a real curmudgeon, the grump who wound up being my thesis advisor. |
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| I ask him if his books are his children, and sense the old grump in his response that, if they are, they're children he can't wait to be rid of. |
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| Indeed my children kept complaining at the family grump reading at the meal table. |
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| The other one's a grump and because of mistreatment being bred in its bones is just getting used to me. |
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| If she does, someone PLEASE remind me not to be a grump and complain how dirty and old everything looks. |
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| He plays him as a cuddly grump, a sweet-natured misanthrope, more doleful than angry. |
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| But worst, at least from a political perspective, the hectoring made him look like a grump. |
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| Life is too joyful for one to walk around being a buttoned-up old grump, do you not think? |
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| She was just in a grump because she had been stood up by someone whom she likes very much but doesn't like her back. |
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| Maradona is not the only fellow to descend into a grump with world football's organisers. |
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| In fact the very suggestion that my grumpiness may not be entirely my own tends to put me in a bit of a grump. |
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| If to this you add awareness that not everyone else is as fortunate as you, I believe there's no valid reason any fellow homeschooler should grump at you. |
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| Are you in a grump because of your cough, or is there nobody out there? |
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| The first is of leaving Serbia, the biggest country in the region, in a disgruntled, nationalistic grump. |
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| But while voters may applaud the government's economic competence so far, they are in a grump about the future outlook. |
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| For those of you that do not know Father Girouard is a gentle Father who loves to laugh and can be a grump as well. |
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| He comes across as a grump who thinks poetry on the subway is deep. |
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| Punk old-timer Legs McNeil on how, despite his best efforts at acting like a grump, the Velvet Underground front man was beloved. |
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| Gretel teases Hänsel for being a grump and promises to tell him a secret if he will cheer up: there is milk in the jug and their mother will make them a nice pudding when she comes home. |
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| Yes even that sour faced grump that lives on the corner, even him. |
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| I'm not particularly fond of Van Morrison, but the thought of that legendary grump doing anything remotely jocund for anyone with a broad smile on his chops would truly signify a rearranging of the earth's karmic chakras. |
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| Here he is played as a stubborn but not unlikeable grump by Graham Overton in this production directed by Katy Weir. |
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| America is the fourth-easiest place in the world to do business, according to the World Bank. Instead, three structural factors explain American firms' gilded grump with their government. |
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| John Bolton, on the other hand, remained in a grump. |
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| While the right-wing Tories who wake up every morning in a thorough grump about life in bed with the Lib Dems are the ones who understand how coalitions work in countries where they are a norm. To explain. |
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| The Christmas Grump allows scope for the Northern Stage team's trademark lo-fi entertainment, such as puppets, shadow play and old-school playthings. |
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