Sentence examples for pitching a fit from inspiring English sources

He did it again this year when he balked at the competition for federal Race to the Top money for education, pitching a fit about those same strings.

"About all that's missing from the self-consciously kitsch retread of 'Clash of the Titans' is Laurence Olivier pitching a fit in a toga," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in April.

Clanging swords, thundering gods, shrieking monsters — about all that's missing from the self-consciously kitsch retread of "Clash of the Titans" is Laurence Olivier pitching a fit in a toga.

When a friend asked if the school had really put it up, Ms. Knox wrote that it had, and "I'm pitching a fit!" In subsequent posts, Ms. Knox, who teaches special education classes, defended her views in lengthy exchanges with other Facebook users, referring at times to God and her Christian beliefs.

We get no explanation of that, just a bit of gossip and little tears in the show's hermetic seal: last season's runner-up, Crystal Bowersox, pitching a fit over "Idol" staffers cleaning her personal microphone stand, which had been shipped from home; or the custody battle that the Season 8 contestant Megan Joy was waging over her son while on the show.

So could you get to the point and spare me the routine from Law & Order?" Agent Katy said in this voice, as though she were dealing with a six-year-old who was pitching a fit because his Pez dispenser broke, "Calm down, Mr. Naylor.

"How dare you pitch a fit about what time your sketch is on?

In fact, if we forget to put it back on after his bath, he pitches a fit.

Garnett didn't pitch a fit when the Timberwolves' owner, Glen Taylor, rebuffed audacious financial demands by Sprewell and Cassell last season.

Oh, Lord!" A week or so after the Atlanta shows, Merle pitched a fit at a truck stop in Slidell, Louisiana, a half hour northeast of New Orleans.

"My mother pitched a fit," Mr. Albert said, who still has a copy of the letter Elinor wrote to the school superintendent and a local branch of the N.A.A.C.P.