Mr. Cramer's DiMaggio is as mean as they come: he was a prodigious miser; his pals and associates were as unsavory as Sinatra's; he saw women as "broads" and exhibited scarcely a redeeming quality.
Her fingers number every Nerve, Just as a Miser counts his gold; She lives upon his shrieks & cries, And she grows young as he grows old.
Later in the day he overheard a couple of his mother's customers speak of his mother as a miser.
Tiger Woods protects Sunday leads like a miser protecting his money.
Like a miser with his money, Dubois locked the fossils in a museum safe, vowing never again to let another steal his glory.
But also on Sunday the Miser has his eyes on "Frühschoppen: A Literary Brunch," hosted by New York University's Deutsches Haus, where the readings will be complemented by traditional German food.
"Your money or your life!" "I'm sorry, my dear, but you know it would kill me to lose my money," said the partially deaf miser to his wife.
This Merlin stands apart from the brief, furious lives of those around him: a shabby figure of power as old as the local gods and undoubtedly more terrifying, if only he'd stop hoarding his magic like a miser.
Patrick Stewart, who did a one-man Broadway show of Dickens's novel for several years, is a believably misanthropic yet sympathetic Scrooge, who feels real emotional pain during his transition from grouchy miser to merry, avuncular philanthropist.
"He seemed to have a built-in hideaway room and was always rushing off to it to worry over himself, and gloat, too, like a miser with his gold.
