Sentence examples for more quarrelsome from inspiring English sources

In fact, the domestic lives of the Nehru family read like episodes from Dallas, only more quarrelsome and cruel.

The Slavic brass chorale in the third movement was beautifully mellow, making the following klezmer outburst in the woodwinds appear even more quarrelsome and subversive.

With Mr. Putin giving Russian foreign policy a more nationalist edge, there is already a growing possibility that relations between Moscow and Washington will become more quarrelsome.

A more quarrelsome government than his would be hard to recreate: it comprises his centrist Congress party and a dozen small leftist and regional outfits, and relies for a parliamentary majority on the "outside" support of India's Communist parties.

Kirk and Luann get more quarrelsome as the party progresses and finally, despite Marge trying to divert the party away from the fighting pair, the two get into a fight and Luann demands a divorce.

Gradually another view of Plath emerged -- of a woman who was moody, selfish, jealous, quarrelsome, more than a little paranoid and generally impossible to get along with.

"Glorious Misadventures" is in part this extraordinary man's biography, starting from his days scratching a living in deathly dull Pskov, and plotting his rise to high favour, aided in part by a successful first marriage to the daughter of a rich merchant.His voyage to the Pacific, with shipmates even more mercurial and quarrelsome than himself, reads like an implausibly lively historical novel.

He interprets court statistics as evidence that reformed Genevans became "less quarrelsome... and more honest," whereas they really reflect the diminishing zeal of denouncers.

Wood's aspersions are confirmed by Lifeboat, where the Nazi played by Walter Slezak is tougher, braver and more ingenious than the democratically quarrelsome Americans he outwits.

It then spent a decade paying a heavy price for trying to stay there, as even Afghanistan's famously quarrelsome people stood more or less united against it.This time, it's true, things are different.

Meanwhile, from a more prosaic living room upstage, her two quarrelsome sons provide periodic reality checks.