A superb fictional account of the battle of Borodino is followed by a slightly grumpy military history of the battle and a map of the battlefield.
The helicopter hits turbulence and the passengers are told to fasten their seatbelts, but Dr Grant, a slightly grumpy palaeontologist played by Sam Neill, realises that he is stuck with two buckle ends – the female parts of the mechanism – and no tongue.
When the march had concluded, and I had expressed my astonishment in an e-mail to an American, it was met with a slightly grumpy reply, in which the writer noted similar expressions of courage after the 9/11 attacks on New York's Twin Towers.
When I went to interview, before they had even announced Peter, they said, 'We're going to go back to the older Doctors.' Not age, just a slightly grumpier, more complicated Doctor.
While The Scotsman's Paul Whitelaw similarly noted that Davies appeared to be playing "a slightly grumpier version" of himself, he was "quite impressed" by Davies performance, having never seen him act before.
David Lurie, on whom Coetzee visits a contemporary catalogue of humiliations, is a fairly average, twice-married, fiftysomething lecturer at a Capetown university who, accused of sexual misconduct with one of his students, chooses not to defend himself but rather to suffer his fate with a noble, slightly grumpy, stoicism.
As the days ticked by, and the long Florida election limped on, the black plastic lettering on the sign, which has served as a silent and slightly grumpy Greek chorus was rearranged into an even more impatient plea: "Honk if You Want It to Be Over".
Jason's Frost, cosily rumpled, slightly grumpy, is only a distant relation to the character who tells jokes so disgusting they can make people physically sick.
This was fairly marginal stuff, reserved in the main for slightly grumpy vested interest groups or a handful of people with Twitter accounts and too much time on their hands.
– is looking like it would be a brave new world in which Saga and Henrik are actually a couple – a crime-fighting, trouser-into-boots-tucking couple – Linn is less Nurse Ratched and more Hans's slightly grumpy, but somehow worthy, successor; and there's even a chance that, after his cock-up this week, Rasmus might get the demotion he so heartily deserves.
I'll readily admit to being slightly grumpy about this: Having my sleep monitor taking up a wall socket while I have a perfectly fine USB power socket right next to my bed feels like a step backwards, but maybe that's something the company can address in a future revision of the product.
