Previous generations of theatre historians have despised the operatic spectaculars, perhaps influenced by John Dryden's sour comments about expensive and tasteless "scenes, machines, and empty operas".
It may be tough to spot an angry cougar during your initial encounter, however, some telltale signs include sour comments about her family or husband (or ex), disdain for her job or work situation or general eye rolling and sarcasm.
But his friend Eric Markiewicz, a 23-year-old Yankees fan from Richmond Hill, called the comments sour grapes.
Now that Click has been let go, let's shift the conversation to the real issues instead of continuing to go after a professor with pitchforks in the form of sour and hateful comments.
Starkey's comment is sour grapes, "entirely and understandably so", and she points out that the great historian Eric Ives's biography of Anne Boleyn only came back into print because her novel The Other Boleyn Girl was made into a film (with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman).
Sure, that may be a cynical comment or sour grapes or both but it's probably not wrong.
Mr. Plofsky attributed Mr. Curry's comments to sour grapes.
Mr. Schwartz dismissed Mr. Hashmall's comments as "sour grapes" and called the election allegations untrue.
