Mr Bush distorted his rival's record on breast-cancer research and was graceless about the fact that the senator's sister suffered from the disease.These signs of querulousness and vindictiveness need to be set in context not just against other presidents (think of Bill Clinton's volcanic indiscipline, Richard Nixon's mood swings) but also against other parts of Mr Bush's own record.
He has the most charming voice in the world, and a silvery querulousness that can flay without drawing a single drop of blood.
Still, it would be an adventure, and a chance to learn something of the world beyond the dismal confines of their querulousness.
When he feels misunderstood, a Larry David-like querulousness creeps into his voice.
The martinis gave way to too much bourbon, the high spirits to querulousness, then fury and verbal abuse.
Anyone who's spent time with Sendak's best books — "Where the Wild Things Are," "In the Night Kitchen" and "Nutshell Library" among them — knows that this querulousness was the salt crust on a deep and complicated well of feeling.
On a purely narrative level, too, it's not easy to tell what keeps Claire's boyfriend Mark Adrian Bowerr), a performance poet who exists outside the prevailing querulousness, engaged with such a family dynamic.
And yet, like many British actors of the "just speak the lines dear boy" school, Mr. Davis delivers a performance that's impeccable on the surface but fails to draw forth the deeper layers of anguish that underlie Edgar's querulousness.
Is there any more enjoyable state than that of mild querulousness in the face of something which, in the cosmic scheme, is of limited importance?
I especially like Renata Adler's observation about the temptation "to pretend that each day's text is, after all a crisis", but it is Randall Jarrell's supportive reference to "the negative capability of the critic" that paves the way for our last – and most improbable – avenging angel of old-school querulousness.
TC: I think a certain toughness, a certain querulousness, is the common contemporary pose.
