Sentence examples for crabbiness from inspiring English sources

She staves off the reader's frustration by filling gaps with educated guesses, mining Fitzgerald's juvenilia, decoding marginalia and, as Fitzgerald's quirks hardened into crabbiness, summarising the caustic notes the grande dame prepared on other writers".Those who did not like Penelope Fitzgerald found her reserved, perverse, stubborn, mischievous, wilful and sharp- tongued.

Having lived in London and America and travelled widely, he settled in Suffolk and was happiest working there.Despite his occasional crabbiness, Britten had a gift for friendship and was close to many of the musical and literary figures of his age.

Two books later, that statement still holds true.In this section A political lesson Market idol Facing the frenemy The crabbiness is all The crown prince of Culver City The coast of Utopia Correction: Ingar Sletten Kolloen ReprintsThis time the man felled by age and infirmity is Simon Axler, an actor who suffers a breakdown while portraying Prospero and Macbeth in repertory.

And adding to the mood of crabbiness was the realisation that the pair that have previously driven the European idea, France and Germany, are no longer in synch, and not just over the euro.

As Bair reveals, his love life was a string of infidelities, and crabbiness was his default mood.

But one subject that evokes the passion he has self-diagnosed as crabbiness is the decadent state of contemporary Hollywood entertainment.

The show-stealer, though, is Jerry Adler, as the agent whose steadfast crabbiness even Hawaii cannot conquer.

Disbelief turns to understanding as she finds herself recalling how Dylan became more sullen and withdrawn – behaviour she attributed to normal adolescent crabbiness.