Sentence examples for disagreeable child from inspiring English sources

"Little Charlie Manson was a disagreeable child," Jeff Guinn writes in "Manson," an otherwise brawny, deep-digging biography that's much more riveting than might be expected.

And on days when I feel like what I'm working at is dreadful and not working out at all, I remember that Dorothy felt like "a plain disagreeable child with stringy hair and a yen to write poetry", like she was only following in the footsteps of other, better women, in dirty sneakers.

But for Abby, trapped in her gleaming prison with not one but two disagreeable children, the more immediate horror is motherhood itself.

Actor Justin Theroux makes his directing debut with this quirky film about a disagreeable children's book author (Billy Crudup) dealing with a multitude of dysfunctions.

Proactive-aggressive tendencies to view aggression as an effective means to reach goals (Crick and Dodge 1996) seem to be in line with the selfish and hostile tendencies in disagreeable children (Graziano et al. 1996).

Both children who are more disagreeable and children who are more self-centered engage in proactive aggression more often as compared to less disagreeable and less self-centered children.

You probably already know the story of the orphaned Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen", and her rehabilitation of the spooky walled-in garden with the killer tree (the one the late Mrs Craven fell out of).

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.

She is a disagreeable, self-centred child, sent to stay in the Yorkshire house of an invisible, absent uncle.

Avoid and discard any activity that is disagreeable to you and/or the child -- causes anxiety, frustration, that the child does not wish to accept, etc. NOTE: The age groupings below are approximate.

The truth is that though many found shooting unarmed Jews, especially women and children, highly disagreeable, there was no great desire to step out of line.