Sentence examples for peevish tone from inspiring English sources

It adopts a peevish tone, noting "the irony of so much moral outrage devoted to a single media company, when British tabloids have been known for decades for buying scoops and digging up dirt on the famous".

It's unclear whether the peevish tone of Fleck's resolution ("Whereas, the State of North Dakota through adverse publicity has been ridiculed because of its climatic conditions; and whereas, such publicity has been unwarranted; and whereas, much of such unwarranted publicity has been caused by the use of the term 'North' in the name 'North Dakota'... .....) was responsible for its failure.

It's unclear whether the peevish tone of Fleck's resolution ("Whereas, the State of North Dakota through adverse publicity has been ridiculed because of its climatic conditions; and whereas, such publicity has been unwarranted; and whereas, much of such unwarranted publicity has been caused by the use of the term 'North' in the name 'North Dakota'...".) was responsible for its failure.

She is not a likeable character, exactly, but she's a hard one to forget, and her peevish, mischievous tone of voice is an authorial triumph.

Her obituary in the New York Times has a tone of peevish, gawking reproach.

The tone was peevish; it implied that complaining about filing expenses was an outrageous indulgence since it was evidence that I was employed, that I had an employer that would cover expenses for my work travel, and, on top of that, that I lived in a first-world country where there are employed people with solvent employers.

Within seconds someone responded that this was "a #firstworldproblem". The tone was peevish; it implied that complaining about filing expenses was an outrageous indulgence since it was evidence that I was employed, that I had an employer that would cover expenses for my work travel, and, on top of that, that I lived in a first-world country where there are employed people with solvent employers.

The spectacle of (overwhelmingly white) delegates chanting "We did build it," in tones of peevish self-congratulation, looked like a party talking to itself.Before that, Mr Romney's first months as the presumptive nominee had been a study in frustration.

But it is not the only thing that has the region feeling peevish.

Somehow my father always won and left me feeling peevish in the bargain.

With The BFG – now a Spielberg-helmed Dahley film – Dahl's words alongside Quentin Blake's drawings remain a perfect, inseparable match: those naif, febrile and scratchy little sketches, paired with Dahl's arch and antic tone, in which something fractious and faintly peevish always simmers beneath the sweetness.