Sentence examples for a termagant from inspiring English sources

A termagant is trying to get her niece lobotomised.

Frances Barber, who was a termagant onstage as Goneril, was a kind of hilarious ring-tailed roarer off it.

Whether she was playing a saint or a termagant, she anchored each role with a firm base in reality.

Like all the best teachers, she could be a termagant when she felt things weren't being done right.

The show-must-go-on canard is mouthed by the producer, Carmen Bernstein (the formidable Debra Monk), a termagant with timing.

When the Musician is reunited with Banana after a stint in prison, his acolyte has settled down with a termagant wife.

The most effective performance is Natalia Egorova's as Natalya who, for a change, is not a crafty termagant but a bossy, totally insensitive woman who means well, even if her own needs always come first.

Even before the first words are spoken, Hedda prowls around the crepuscular gloom like an infantile termagant throwing a moody; she kicks over chairs, yanks dustcovers off furniture, sweeps bouquets of flowers onto the floor.

She is convincing as a fragile ingenue and a driven termagant.

Mulligan filmed and then cut an episode in which Mrs. Dubose, a local termagant, is shown trying to free herself from a secret morphine habit before she dies.

She was described as a shrewish figure, an insufferable termagant, by Abraham Lincoln's law partner and biographer William Herndon.