Sentence examples for irascible character from inspiring English sources

"He was known as an eccentric and at times irascible character," Andrew Stuart said.

By the nineteen-eighties, she was a famously irascible character, unabashedly herself at all times.

An irascible character known for his stories, he had seven sons, who all tended to imitate him and to whom he passed his stories.

Cuban is still the irascible character from his baseline seat at Mavericks games, but he also acknowledges a bit of a change.

About half of them replied, among them Jack Kerouac ("Symbolism is alright in 'fiction' but I tell true life stories"), Ayn Rand, in irascible character ("your questions do not make sense"), and an only slightly more polite John Updike ("I have no method; there is no method in writing fiction: you don't seem to understand").

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The compromise marks the end of a quintessential New York drama, pitting the two most common objects of longing for many New Yorkers -- housing and unfettered green spaces -- against each other, and featuring some of the city's most irascible characters.

"Molloy" is a double quest tale, its likably irascible title character haplessly seeking his mother while a peevish, shadowy investigator named Moran seeks Molloy.

Robert Shaw's irascible, eccentric Quint, the shark hunter and ultimately the designated Captain Ahab of the piece, is more a seeming notion than a character.

My guess is that most of this opposition is due more to dislike of renaming things after politicians, especially living politicians (my position) than to some special hostility toward Koch, who, like many irascible public characters who remain active into a ripe old age (he's eighty-six and still making trouble), is actually a much-loved figure.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet My guess is that most of this opposition is due more to dislike of renaming things after politicians, especially living politicians (my position) than to some special hostility toward Koch, who, like many irascible public characters who remain active into a ripe old age (he's eighty-six and still making trouble), is actually a much-loved figure.