• The difference, according to Harold Finkelstein, an irascible wholesaler from Long Island City, N.

    FORBES: Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

  • This conciliatory tone was in striking contrast to Mr Arzalluz's sometimes irascible and always fiery language.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Last summer, when I asked Mitchell if this irascible image of Stevens was accurate, he smiled.

    NPR: Facing Indictment, Sen. Stevens Claims Innocence

  • His at-times irascible demeanour and lack of a 'Celtic background' also chafed with others to varying degrees.

    BBC: Mowbray the natural leader

  • Premature though it may be to write Apple off again, the irascible Mr Jobs may have to find some new tricks.

    ECONOMIST: Computer industry

  • But there are incidental pleasures, such as the recurring appearance of Larry David as a bespectacled, irascible nun named Sister Mary Mengele.

    NEWYORKER: Funny and Funnier

  • It suggests an overestimation of Congress's strength, and the party's failure to reassure the TC's irascible leader, Mamata Banerjee, is careless at best.

    ECONOMIST: Indian politics and women

  • But the overall picture that emerges is of a paradoxical man, capable of great sensitivity, who appears also to have been a self-centred, irascible bully.

    ECONOMIST: Carl Gustav Jung

  • The somewhat irascible mayor has taken a few hits himself recently most notably on a city charter amendment that was defeated in a ballot earlier this month.

    ECONOMIST: Hillary Clinton

  • There is also an irascible, motoring Jack Russell terrier, whose arthritic hindquarters are mounted on wheels, and a variety of predatory mastiffs with an eye for porkers.

    NEWYORKER: Babe: Pig in the City

  • Lloyd provides effective narration and gravitas as The Singer in the first act, then turns irascible and loud throughout Act 2 as Azdak, the vulgar, ranting, drunken judge.

    WSJ: Review: 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' jabs at injustice

  • The training already incudes a course on handling irascible customers.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • But the patents are broad enough for the company's chairman, an irascible Aussie doctor-turned-entrepreneur named Mervyn Jacobson (who is cofounder with Simons in what was earlier known as GeneType).

    FORBES: Junkyard Dogs

  • At the New York Stock Exchange the staff had a nickname for the irascible AIG chief: Mr. Yoohoo, for his frequent calls to complain about the trading of AIG stock.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Iraq's irascible tyrant has been rattling his gold-plated sabre in recent days, sending his air force into Saudi airspace and complaining that some of the oil exported by Kuwait really belongs to Iraq.

    ECONOMIST: Cutting the oil price

  • Your bravery is irascible, Suzanne said.

    NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

  • Along with interviews with Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin (who has joined the film as a producer), and her longtime musical companion, Rob Bowman, "Shoot Me" is mostly just Stritch irascible and vulnerable going about her days with brassy humor and undaunted energy.

    NPR: Elaine Stritch Takes A Bow At Tribeca

  • While affection for the duke remains strong today -- as was shown by an outpouring of concern when he underwent heart surgery last year -- his public image as a dashing young man has long since been replaced by one of an irascible older figure.

    CNN: Prince Philip: The man behind the queen

  • Besides learning that they are somehow lacking in empathy or goodness or the ability to heal, little guidance is being provided to those who among them have decided that they cannot believe in a sometimes violent and irascible God or who in fact have found their faith in God in question as a result of this tragedy.

    CNN: Why must the nation grieve with God?

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