| He rambles and manhandles the equipment, testily blaming newfangled technology when he has difficulty with basic tasks such as placing a compact disc in a player. |
| I could forgive him everything save his youth, but it is so aggressive that I have sometimes to order William testily to close the window. |
| But, upon arriving, we found the secretary talking testily on the phone with one unlikely McCain voter. |
| In the year before his death he dealt somewhat testily with the whole matter in an interview with a journalist on the Courier-Mail. |
| As the Committee chairman testily remarked, this is a little like nailing jelly. |
| In putting together his new cabinet in late August, Mr Wahid quickly reverted to form, installing a couple of dubious ministers, then testily and irrationally defending them to his coalition partners. |
