“Some of them are remarkably eager to label anybody who asks the question an antiwar liberal loser sorehead.”

“If the accused is not dismissed, the good trooper will be dismayed and the malcontent and sorehead will be encouraged in his own insubordination.”

“I really did, because if they boo you on the road, it's either because you're a sorehead or you're hurting them.”

“Maurice Bendrix, the hero of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, is one of modern literature's great soreheads.”

“Yet he makes a terrible mistake in treating the traditional civil rights leaders as soreheads because they attack him.”

“What it dances around is the flabbergasting tendency of all these cable-TV talking soreheads to be wrong about everything from primary votes to foreign wars.”