A simple display of name-calling tetchiness is one thing, but your fear she will not return your DVD suggests you may have gone a tad further than that. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sarah Quintrell is a model of crisp common sense as Roberta; Caroline Harker as the mother reveals occasional tetchiness beneath the good samaritan; and Marshall Lancaster as the porter blends kindliness with the prickliness of someone who won't be patronised. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ironically, the tetchiness of Indian elites, and indeed much of the middle class, springs largely from success. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Excellent analysis, displaying your usual tetchiness and unsparing scrutiny… ❋ Unknown (2009)
With the tetchiness of a patriarch whom no one heeds but whose nagging voice won't get off the intercom, Norman Podhoretz asks the vexing question: "Why Are Jews Liberals?" ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)
His tetchiness, fear, and the stammering are only likely to increase, particularly if he learns that he has been nicknamed “Arkwright” after the stuttering Barker character. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Chernow, who won the National Book Award for "The House of Morgan," shows all Hamilton's complexity and inconsistency: his flirtatiousness, religiosity, manic productivity (his collected writings run to 22,000 pages), tetchiness, well-hidden insecurity and his tendency to self-destruct. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The tetchiness is only going to get worse the nearer nulabour's conference gets! ❋ Praguetory (2006)
Among those involved with the film, all this has led to an evident tetchiness. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Once or twice, Mark had asked him if he was depressed, but each time the question was greeted with tetchiness. ❋ Walters, Minette (2002)
The tetchiness would only get worse, and besides, he needed to paint. ❋ Tim Bowler (2001)
Mervyn was not about to ruin his own reputation as agent out of tetchiness with Juliards, father or son. ❋ Francis, Dick (1997)
"I've not been idle, my Lord, " he said with a touch of tetchiness. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1995)
Afterwards you remembered their tetchiness - their fallibility - their kindness - their humanity. ❋ Gill, B. M. (1991)
Eric, on the other hand, was a Gunnery Major who talked fitfully of trajectories and ballistics as though he were the young Napoleon, giving an impression of tetchiness and vanity that was quite illusory, for once circumstances divorced him from his play - ❋ Peter, Ustinov (1977)
Sir, Were it not for M. Kokovtsoff's tetchiness in the matter of metaphors, I should feel inclined to see in his protest against my estimates of the decline in the Russian gold reserve and of the increase of the note issue a variant of the classic excuse of Mrs. Easy's wetnurse for the unlawfulness of her baby. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Let not anger or grief for the absence of thy lover make thee unjust to thy kinsman, who, notwithstanding all thy tetchiness, values thy good report as high as that of any one living. '' ❋ Unknown (1894)
He is noted for "his unmeaning frown, his shuffling gait, his burst of voice, his bustling insignificance, his fever-and-ague fits of valor, his froward tetchiness, his unprincipled malice, and occasional gleams of good sense." ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)
