Today, preparing to play a practice round, Mickelson offered thoughtful comments -- with the slightest pique.
Boris-watchers detected a slight note of pique – and even perhaps hypocrisy – when he appeared to take aim at her the other day, declaring: "If ministers are setting out their stall now … they should save their breath and cool their porridge".
It's hard to believe this Vermonter made a decision of great national import driven by personal pique at some White House slight.
Prosecutors said that Mr. Giuca and the friend, Antonio Russo — members of a fledgling gang called the Ghetto Mafia — had killed Mr. Fisher either for street credibility or, in a show of brutal, calculated pique, for a perceived slight.
The incident came after the mercurial Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, suddenly went back on a promise to dispose of the weapons-grade uranium, apparently out of pique at a diplomatic slight received in New York when he was barred from pitching a tent outside the UN.
The clothes had a slight vintage feel, with seersucker and cotton pique and a little knit shirt bursting with tropical flowers.
Even when, God love her, Mariah Carey got up and gave her very drunken acceptance speech in Palm Springs last week -- just the kind of lifting of the veil that I would have once been thrilled and fascinated by -- it didn't pique my interest in the slightest.
Presidential candidates in particular dare not betray the slightest hint of being short-tempered, lest this pique be perceived as the kind of hotheaded instability that might bring the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation -- or, nowadays, Nasdaq to its knees.
James ended his fifty-year friendship with Beaton over a perceived disloyalty, accused the Brooklyn Museum of stealing materials that he had left there for storage, returned his awards in a fit of pique, and denigrated Vreeland for a long list of slights.
