Sentence examples for miser as from inspiring English sources

BENEATH THE SURFACE For reasons as murky as the water itself, the contents of the Gowanus Canal have always been, to the Miser, as fascinating as they are foul.

Landon offers a striking portrait of the notorious miser as someone whose ultimate redemption makes him giddier than a child with a new toy.

The goodness of Tiny Tim, nestled in the love of his struggling but contented family, is what haunts this miser as he confronts the reality of his own mortality.

They act as "information gluttons and information misers". As gluttons, they take in as much information as possible.

Plummer, much closer in age to Getty than Spacey was in the role, makes a marvelous miser, never as disappointed by beautiful objects as he is by fallible people.

Being a miser feels as though it's a game he's playing.

Winnie herself employs a powerful version of mountain speech with many a simile, some arresting ("mad as a meat ax," "moody as a miser") and some less so ("wet as a muskrat," "sour as persimmons").

In this latest run as the miser reborn on Christmas Day as a generous and gregarious Englishman, the 70-year-old Landon even performed his signature "hat trick" on at least one occasion in front of a live audience.

A team of researchers led by MCB Associate Professor David Savage has designed a novel protein engineering method known as MISER, which slims down the CRISPR-Cas9 protein.

The City as Miser How New York City came to contribute such a relatively small part of its school system's budget, and how officials in Albany allowed that to happen, is a tale of political intrigue and bureaucratic compromise, of budget cuts in lean years and competing priorities in fat.

He followed previous eccentric White Sox owners Charles Comiskey, who was known as a miser, and Veeck, who was known as a prankster who gutted the team by trading away promising prospects.