“It's a timeless display of good-time rock 'n' roll, and you'd have to be a churlish misery guts to claim otherwise.”

“Mevisto as Nikita was the paradigm of the moujik: savage and ferocious, boorish and churlish. When drunk, he was scurrilous and obscene, his foulness reaching unheard-of proportions.”

“The poem criticizes the noble or prince, making the point that the man who should be generous, an aristocratic patron of poetry, is instead stingy and churlish.”