| She is at once an intellectual giant, the personification of hostile irascibility, and a kind and gentle great-grandmother. |
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| The chairman has built a hugely effective public persona built on irascibility. |
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| The only noticeable change was in his growing irascibility with the passing years. |
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| He was also an endearingly tetchy coot whose prejudices, passions, and irascibility remained uncompromised over time. |
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| His nightmares, insomnia, poor memory, fatigue, and irascibility became worse, and he developed headaches, musculoskeletal aches, and dyspepsia. |
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| Yet despite his engaging irascibility, Mamoon never quite emerges as a character in his own right. |
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| A list of their faults could continue with irascibility, narcissism, idiosyncracy, high-handedness and a poor taste in friends. |
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| Patience relates the biblical story of Jonah as a human comedy of petulance and irascibility set off against God's benign forbearance. |
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| The constant alternation of exhaustment and irascibility, which is typical for stressed people, can be treated with black horehound. |
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| Breathing, visualization and relaxation exercises will help us to reduce anxiety, fears, sadness and irascibility. |
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| For all his egotism and irascibility, Churchill was a good man as well as a great one. |
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| He was nearly blind and suffered from extreme irascibility, which made his attendants go in constant fear of their lives. |
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| As Amis grew older, though, his irascibility vehemently swiveled toward left-wing and progressive targets, and he established himself as a Tory satirist in the vein of Waugh or Powell. |
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| According to Brigadier Mahmood Shah, the army officer who drafted the deal with Nek Muhammad, Haji Omar's main weakness is a certain irascibility caused by a Soviet bullet lodged in his brain. |
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| His prose style, famously cranky and occasionally savage, helped cement an air of irascibility. |
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