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Since a comedian requires ingenuity, while a humorist can coast on a querulous attitude.
But there are querulous voices, conflicting histories, and disputed landscapes.
He will increasingly be seen as a querulous and ineffective obstructor of the President's policies, which are popular in South Dakota.
When a stiff back and querulous bottom-lip signals a looming mini-starlet strop in daughter Caitlin, Mr Bear is immediately whipped out.
I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
I usually skip Checkpoint on National at five for the reasons alluded to above and also because I dislike its sometimes whiny, querulous tone.
The querulous critic who scolds it as he would a spoiled child, has not learned the primer of politics.
Interspersed among these episodes, on the other side of the stage, we see a querulous old man confronting an impatient, offensive nurse.
The trembling, querulous voice should have been enough to shatter the ceremonious moment, but, somehow, it was not.
Calasso reconstruction is, in Mounts' judgment, a superbly ambitious, quirky, querulous, lyrical, and finally persuasive essay.
The querulous, interconnected pamphlets printed in seventeenth-century Europe prefigure the culture of modern blogging.
Arguably, the problem is Europe itself: its querulous voters and its cowardly political leaders.
Instead, the Security Council has been revealed as a committee of querulous clerks, fussily reviewing the U.S. hegemon's paperwork before smacking it with the rubber stamp.
Any alternative to that offers only the prospect of a more perilous and more querulous future.
Smeared and cross-hatched, the objective correlative here is adroitly drawn out, counterpointed throughout the poem by the woman's querulous responses.
The annual expectation at one particular stop of listening to the querulous whistle of Upland Sandpiper as the sun's rays light up the low-lying mists covering the fields-magical!
Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.
The later he leaves it, the more risk he takes that his backbenchers will have become querulous and his government will have descended into a midterm slump by the time the people are asked the question.
Mr Blunkett did not go out of his way to quell this suggestion by saying cheerfully to a conference of querulous teachers last weekend that he was, alas, taking his leave of them.
Put away your querulous unbelief, your envy and evil thinking, and go to work, in humble faith, and with earnest prayer to the Lord to pardon you for your years of unconsecration.
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The nights were now cold, gemmed with a multitude of bright stars, uncanny with the querulous wail of coyotes and the occasional deep voices of wolves.
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But that period going by, she became querulous about the cold, and shivered and whimpered.
A querulous little cry reached her from the Bath chair, drawn up on the promenade.
Peevish, querulous, a panegyrist of former times when he was a boy, a chastiser and censurer of his juniors.
The note of the sanderling is a soft ket, ket, ket, uttered singly or in series somewhat querulous in tone.
He is a spleeny, querulous, joyless fellow, of thin blood and aching liver.
Her fingers were suppler than her mother's, and she scarcely spoke except to answer the latter's querulous questions.
But the children had no awe of the gambler, and their protests were many and querulous.
At this moment a querulous, broken voice comes to them from some inner room.
On his face was an expression of querulous surprise as he reeled to the fall.
Nothing was stirring except a brindled, grey cat, which crept from the ashes, and saluted me with a querulous mew.
By a melancholy hearth sat these two old people, the man calmly despondent, the woman querulous and tearful, and their words were all of sorrow.
Many of the frightened return boys had crowded on deck, and their plaintive, querulous voices sounded like the sleepy noises of a roost of birds.
A querulous, high-pitched voice, quavering with the palsy of extreme age.
I don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.
Of a sudden another broke out in a querulous way like a man who has mislaid his hat.
But this was too much for Mr. hempseed's querulous philosophy.
And on his countenance there was a sour, querulous, resentful expression.
Where she had meant to be maternally peremptory she became querulous.
For the moment, however, Mr. Mix was querulous rather than defensive.
The croon changed to a querulous muttering, and finally to an ugly growl.
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As many in the cast do, Douglas takes on more than one role, most notably that of Judge Frank, who presides over this purgatorial melee with querulous humor.
She said all this in an even, querulous tone, as though she were recounting the injustices of fate, which had to be borne as part of the natural order of things.
That the tedious, querulous, distracted, and unreflective Speer remained for Fest such a challenging and yet essential source is the key to the book's hold on our attention.
