There she was on the platform at Limerick — Grandma, white hair, sour eyes, a black shawl, and no smile for my mother or any of us, even my brother Malachy, with his big smile and sweet white teeth.
It left Van Gundy with 12 to 15 stitches over his left eye, turned sour what had been an enjoyable experience for the crowd on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and became the ugliest Knicks incident since Larry Johnson and Alonzo Mourning traded hooks in the 1998 playoffs.
"Stand up if you love West Ham," chanted some fans; "Where were you at Upton Park?" sang others, as frustration with a dream seemingly turning sour before their eyes became ugly.
The initially sweet old woman behind the counter quickly turned sour, narrowing her eyes and telling me that there was no one on the whole site who could speak with a journalist, so I should email a mysterious "media advisor".
The initially sweet old woman behind the counter quickly turned sour, narrowing her eyes and telling me that there was no one in the entire building who could speak with a journalist.
The toxicology of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and sour gas on the eye has a long history beginning at least with Ramazzini's observations [Ramazzini B. Diseases of Workers De Morbis Artificum Diatriba 1713. Wright WC (trans). New York, C. Hafner Publishing Co Inc.; 1964. 98 99 pp.].
It says a lot for his magnetism that he can transform the dourness of, say, You Owe Me ("I'm back where I came from, what a sight for sore eyes, a sour reminder of how hard I've tried") into a post-watershed seduction piece.
The book follows the rise and fall of a character's love affair with a female automaton, only to have the romance sour after seeing her eyes removed from her body.
Her tongue-in-cheek "playing" of a giant inflatable guitar and telling the crowd they could join her chant of "pussy pussy / power power" "even if you have a dick" clearly struck a particularly sour note in the eyes of some critics.
Apart from the time I rolled my eyes at nasty sour espressos.
