| In making these assertions, I am not being a curmudgeon, a whiner or a spoilsport. |
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| Read a selection of past interviews and you're left with a picture of a truculent, grumpy old curmudgeon. |
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| At times Bifo seems a cranky old curmudgeon madly shaking his fist at the present. |
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| In truth, he often proved an irascible, frustrating curmudgeon at the tribunal but people loved him for it. |
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| And the loveable curmudgeon is responsible for most of literature's best quotations, maxims and aphorisms. |
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| One can see that his colleagues must have regarded him as a cross-grained old curmudgeon. |
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| Call me a crotchety curmudgeon, but I started on this book with two mental blocks. |
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| He is a bit of a curmudgeon who changes his mind all the time, but he is still likable. |
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| I haven't finished the book yet but my overall impression is of a changeable curmudgeon but not a monster. |
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| I was grading for a real curmudgeon, the grump who wound up being my thesis advisor. |
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| By the time of my last visit, about a year ago, Maurice had become almost as famous for being a curmudgeon as he was as an artist. |
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| Like tennis, it's an old sport and has likewise evolved its own distinctive language with charm aplenty to disarm this non-sporty, youngish curmudgeon. |
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| Besides, he explained, Moore was too much of a curmudgeon to have written so large-hearted a poem. |
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| I know this makes me sound like a curmudgeon, but now that Andy Rooney has died I feel someone has to take up the mantle of cantankerousness. |
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| Despite his courtly manner in private, which so charmed Ms Albright, the mantle of statesman seems misapplied for the old curmudgeon. |
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| The old curmudgeon was talking about the smothering effects of parental duty on creative lives. |
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| Look, I am not such an ideological, frenetic curmudgeon that I don't understand the value of public-private partnerships. |
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| I'm afraid I was a stubborn, self-taught curmudgeon when I went to my first couple of CANSI workshops and really had lousy technique. |
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| Paranoid and deeply unlikable curmudgeon that he was, O'Brian had used his shadowy false identity as a screen against the prying eyes of the world. |
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| Saving Mr. Banks is more than a movie about a snippy curmudgeon who excels at amusing put downs. |
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| He's a mean, mingy quasi nutcase curmudgeon who threatens players, gives them cold pricklies, and who demands attention to things like gameplan, tactics, and skills. |
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| The Knicks phenom is even making a believer of professional curmudgeon Buzz Bissinger. |
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| Chris Messina did such great work this year making a curmudgeon charming on The Mindy Project. |
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| I don't think he is a curmudgeon, I think he just likes challenging climatic conditions. |
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| Rhenish, Swabian and other regional flavours thrive Gerhard Polt, a Bavarian curmudgeon, now 72, is a Shakespeare among them. |
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| Feeling suddenly mortal, the old curmudgeon decides to accept the depraved offer made many years before by his longtime madam. |
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| The curmudgeon can point out that there have been false dawns before. |
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| In person, Messina is a bit like Danny, minus the curmudgeon qualities. |
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| John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate. |
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| Tagg is often portrayed as a curmudgeon by Stateside hacks more used to glad-handers, and he seems to relish playing up to the preconceptions. |
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| There's a cranky curmudgeon working at the hospital who gives all the patients and other doctors flak. |
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| After a while, as cultural debates became more polarized, the editorial tone of the New Criterion went from being charmingly curmudgeon to being bitterly shrill. |
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| Living in a village myself I can almost identify with the characters in the Curmudgeon. |
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| The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village. |
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| And there is nought to call them back, while these Curmudgeon generals dill down in their fear. |
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