It seems that Wittgenstein stayed grouchy throughout his life, and that this grouchiness was in no way ameliorated by the pleasures of food and drink.
PEOPLE with back pain are known for their grouchiness, and it is not helped if they are also starved for sex.
In Colombo, the capital, various swanky structures are rising and the ground has been cleared for a lotus-shaped tower intended to be South Asia's tallest.How, then, to explain a persistent grouchiness among Sri Lankans?
And the assembled press, watching next door on a live video feed, exploded into joyous applause at the most debonair show of Gallic grouchiness since Serge Gainsbourg.
What's odd about this post is not its grouchiness but its lack of specificity.
This being Mexico, we are also given the scenes of disorder and squalor so dear to old-time English travel writers, but we never quite get the note of astonished, white-man grouchiness that we find, to hilarious effect, on every page of Evelyn Waugh's accounts of his journeys.
Judging from the convention of grouchiness last night on Twitter, the limited patience of my companions (they gave up at 10 30), and the faces in the audience, no one much likes the Oscars.
To them, the man's grouchiness, his allergy to contrivance and spin, is exactly what recommends him.
The backup running back has apologized for his grouchiness.
First seen in a red track suit and white Adidas, with curlers tucked under a matronly kerchief, Suzanne scribbles verses in a notebook, endures her husband's grouchiness and keeps a doting eye on her two grown children, Joëlle (Ms. Godrèche) and Laurent (Mr. Renier).
In his new book, "To America With Love," the British critic A. A. Gill attempts to make up for his fellow Britons' grouchiness, sending the United States a frilly, funny valentine.
