Sentence examples for querulous temper from inspiring English sources

He had the vanity that often accompanies good looks, and the querulous temper that goes with innate weakness.

By Edward Mrs. Friendly and James Thurber The New Yorker, September 7, 1929 P. 17 Querulous executive in ill temper because of a compressed air drill outside his window, instructs secretary to tell visitor to go to hell, but adds, "Dont antagonize him".

Ms. Vowell, an education columnist for Time magazine and a regular "American Life" contributor, tempered the story's acidity with her funny querulous voice and shrewd comic delivery.

One suspects that, in dealing with this querulous woman, George became an overly controlled personality and learned to master his temper and curb his tongue.

It is murderously querulous.

Sometimes he was querulous.

Surly waiters, an tagonistic clerks, querulous customers.

LIONEL: Temper.

Bad temper?

He grew dull and querulous and ugly.

Then came a more querulous intervention.