Traitor was a barb he must have expected; he has also been branded a self-serving twerp (by the former head of MI5 Stella Rimington), a naive narcissist, and perhaps strangest of all, a cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood (in the Washington Post).
Where, before, his primary contact with Downing Street was through cronies like Irwin Stelzer and Woodrow Wyatt – who could more easily be fended off ("A bloody menace," said Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, about Wyatt, a "poisonous little twerp") – now his children stepped into the job.
Pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door," - CNN's Erick Erickson.Certainly, one way in which excessive rhetoric on the right is different is its link to pro-violence political sentiments, both in terms of individual gun rights and in terms of militarism in foreign policy.
He ends up looking exactly the sort of person his former girlfriends reckoned him to be, viz. a twerp.
"The reason I didn't suggest it sooner is because, twerp that I am, I have hope.
"Now," the Dungeon Master says, "any of you feebs want to take on the twerp with the kitchen utensil?
But in the cutting from the sequence of Kane's first meeting with Susan (where the writing supplies almost no clue to why he's drawn to this particular twerp of a girl beyond his finding her relaxing) to the political rally, Welles' special talent comes into play.
He was just a twerp," Carmen said.
The teenage pop heartthrob Justin Bieber — surprisingly beaten for best new artist by the dexterous jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding — shared a robotic group-dance number with his mentor Usher, who can't help making Mr. Bieber look and sound like a twerp.
And a bit, spread over several pages, about the actor Joseph Fiennes's behaving like a twerp on a film set that Mr. Wills visited is a waste of this book's already limited storage capacity.
The author has battles, some of them frightening, with the prison guards, who mostly scorn him as a Harvard twerp.
