I only know if I could just have Laurie back, I'd happily return to my former, rotten self".
"It's easy," he once told The Times darkly, "to play my own, rotten self". On television series such as "The Incredible Hulk" and "Mr. Belvedere," he played a wrestler, a role he had rehearsed thoroughly before paying crowds.
He also knew, with equal passion, what he desired: the reform of a rotten, self-serving parliamentary system that made the House of Commons a suppressor of democracy.
The first time I reviewed a number of poets together (an "omnibus" chronicle for The Hudson Review), I struck off, justly or unjustly, some pretty lively sentences about poets whose work seemed of less than star quality; my "rotten" reviewing self, back in those days, felt limber and full of mischief.
But she's a rotten volunteer, weepy and self-conscious, and she doesn't seem to see the pain closer to home.
Matlock was replaced by Rotten's friend and self-appointed "ultimate Sex Pistols fan" Sid Vicious.
Fake Steve is so self-obsessed and rotten to the core that he can't understand why, when he suggests murdering a colleague who knows too much about the backdated options, his advisers reject the idea.
Like the bored child he says he was when growing up, Sedaris tweaks tales incorrigibly, such as when detailing his father's predilection for hoarding food until it's rotten, or when, with preening self-parody, he mocks an earlier incarnation as a performance artist.
The Celtics' rotten win-loss record, 25-57, waself-inflicteded.
The presence of the Negro gives them desperate and self-destructive excuses for a rotten life devoid of mores.
After a bout of self-pity, when he hates the whole rotten show, he rallies with some sentimental hooey about American ideals and routs the ruling-class bullies.
