He decided that his favorite play was "Richard II," because of the way it forced you to confront a disagreeable man-child who ruined his life and killed people, and yet, by the end, made you feel compassion for him.
What a wonderful, welcome condemnation of a very disagreeable man.
"He was a very disagreeable man, but he was smart; very hard to get along with, but he had a perfectly good mind".
No wonder, for a more snobbish, disagreeable man it would be hard to discover.
The picture offers the most moving account we've ever had of how an ordinary, rather disagreeable man, challenged and then electrified by catastrophe, grows into a great leader — in this case, a man possessed of an uncanny sense of timing, authority, and force.
The picture offers the most moving account we've ever had of how an ordinary, rather disagreeable man, challenged and then electrified by catastrophe, grows into a great leader in this case, a man possessed of an uncanny sense of timing, authority, and force.
Anti-Dahlism has been further fuelled by a 1994 unauthorized biography, by the British writer Jeremy Treglown, which presents a complicated, domineering, and sometimes disagreeable man.
The father walks in & proves to be a disagreeable, suspicious man who thinks Clive wants to kill him.
In this serious-minded and meticulously detailed book, Brody is too forgiving of some of Godard's later, lesser work, but his urge to assess it thoroughly seems to spring from a heartfelt desire to comprehend this complicated and, by most accounts, thoroughly disagreeable man.
That disagreeable man at the podium, shiny with self-satisfaction, has promised to read from his memoirs, and the tome in front of him is the size of the collected works of Joyce Carol Oates.
