| It can be taken for granted that reasons abound for self-pity, anger, fear, ill will, surliness and general unhappiness. |
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| So, maybe we should look past his recent surliness with the media, and realize we're pretty lucky to be able to watch this guy play ball. |
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| He was neglecting family support needs and his surliness was making life at home intolerable. |
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| But he concedes that surliness endures, even among waiters and waitresses who grew up in the privatised, post-Soviet years. |
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| In the face of such aggressive surliness, could Blair maintain his willingness and equanimity? |
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| The 59-year-old prime minister has a Nixonian reputation for surliness and bullying. |
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| The web makes it vastly easier to study every aspect of a potential new home, from the quality of its apartment stock to the surliness of its baristas, all without leaving home. |
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| The pub combined all the traditional English qualities of horse brasses, Formica and surliness. |
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| But a growing number of thoughtful Arabs, including some in power, know that the region's surliness and stagnation can be addressed only by a steady opening up of its politics and its economies. |
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| The mother-and-daughter duo tottered back onto the cobbles like a pair of evil twins, with sarcasm and surliness dripping from every one of their pretty little pores. |
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| The IRA and Sinn Fein, meanwhile, have sounded stubborn to the point of surliness about the possibility of weapons ever actually being decommissioned. But the approach of the elections may finally have pushed a lever. |
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| The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. |
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