But I don't think the unions should be able to buy themselves a political party.The sulkiness is a give-away, of course.
It is thought to have been invented in the early 19th century by an English physician and was supposedly named for his sulkiness in wishing to sit alone.
Perhaps the most sustained performance of sulkiness will fall to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who will be seated behind the President and therefore will be on camera for the entire duration of the address.
But when athletes faltered, or were outclassed, or narrowly missed out, there was heartbreak rather than sulkiness.
Recently, she said, they were working on a scene in which Terry is giving Anna a hard time about her weight and sulkiness.
(Graphic novel; ages 5 to 8) Another welcome entry in the early-reader graphic-novel genre, this simple story about an oval (Bean Dog) and his friend Nugget (a slightly squashed circle with a red bow on her "head") is told in the easy-reading comic book panels that spell "reluctant reader" — "Wimpy Kid" without the sulkiness or bad manners.
They tend to embody the least interesting and most irritating aspects of teenagers, like sulkiness and tedious flaring tempers.
What Sounds from Nowheresville most obviously evokes isn't anger or even if-we-must sulkiness, but confusion.
It's easy to be critical, but the chaotic nature of Bulgarian football, and the troubling kidnap threats against Berbatov's family, make his decision to stay away readily understandable, and given his indifferent form – sulkiness as some would have it – for the national team, he is probably not such a big loss as he may at first seem.
You can see why, but this weighs down Mitchison's thoroughly contemporary yarn with references it doesn't need, and detracts from the real protagonist, kleptomaniac teenager Wilf – a poor little rich boy whose sulkiness and affability make for an intriguing mix as he sets off with this uncouth time traveller on a mission to repatriate a mystical wooden bowl.
Charles Darwin's observations of Jenny, the zoo's first captive orangutan, led him to write in The Descent of Man: "Let man visit Ouranoutang in domestication, hear expressive whine, see its intelligence, as if it understands every word said, see its affection to those it knew, see its passion and rage, sulkiness and very actions of despair; and then let him boast of his proud pre-eminence".
