Sentence examples for What a peevish from inspiring English sources

What a peevish bunch.

In what many Chinese clearly see as a peevish dig at him, Mr Hu has scrapped the grandiose tradition of showy departure and return ceremonies for top leaders on foreign trips.Such simplicity from a leader strikes many in China as a refreshing change from the pomposity of Mr Jiang who, it was clear to see, enjoyed all the ceremony.

He is a peevish fault-finder who gets what he deserves.

What peevish opposition that would be, what petulant self-circumscription. Except we don't have to imagine: that mindset is exactly the one Brody is describing.

His previous concert there, almost exactly a year ago, was by all accounts a peevish affair, pockmarked by complaints from the stage.

It was a peevish comment.

(Imagine Lucille Ball with a peevish English accent).

The scene came alive: a stoic cop and a peevish one, an uncoöperative subject, mounting suspicion.

And a peevish and snarling Mary Astor turns up in the role.

The notebooks are a record of a peevish soul trying to break out of a trap.

Wolfgang chafes at authority and sometimes throws things the way a peevish boy his age might.