Their sales disappointed Little, Brown, his publisher, which blamed their brevity, and some critics were mystified ("What do we say?" Hugh Kenner, in a somewhat mean-spirited review in the Times, asked).
Racing along the Mississippi River or a town flooded under 10 feet of water, you must find and jump huge gaps and perform somewhat mean-spirited tricks like knocking fishermen into the water.
I didn't care for Unbaby.me, since it's somewhat mean-spirited.
If this revelation makes Noble seem somewhat mean-spirited – surely there's enough room in that souped-up van for two, the bastard – it couldn't reflect better on his ill-prepared friend.
Ask trusted resources which of your qualities are annoying or even somewhat mean-spirited.
Lower East Side Through Jan . 1Two types of somewhat familiar but spirited realism negotiate a semipeaceful coexistence in these side-by-side solo exhibitions.
Video game music is the high spirited, somewhat close relative to techno and early dance music.
Avram is captured and tortured during the 1973 war; this free-spirited, somewhat goofy genius is thereafter a broken man.
While I have always been the studious, rule-following goal planner, he is the free-spirited, somewhat rebellious go-with-the-flow kind of guy.
Peter Sollett's film turns very nicely on such momentous moments, with the grandmother making a spirited if somewhat disapproving foil for Victor's adventures.
Mr. Johnson is running a spirited, if somewhat anonymous, campaign on the theme that Mr. Lugar, 68, has lost touch with what ordinary Hoosiers care about: education, health care and Social Security.
