(1) There is one area which holds little appeal for the great grouch: television.
(2) Given that Willis's character is a stubborn, ruthless grouch, can we see Looper as a fear of ageing, too?
(3) I even thought of missing the massive Degas retrospective that opened in New York in the winter of 1988, though it was not far from where I was living at the time; it would be uncomfortably crowded and Degas had not apparently been a very nice man, a grumbling grouch with a sarcastic wit in his early years, who evolved into an embarrassing antisemite.
(4) If I can’t help, this shit is a fucking waste.” If Chuck were really an “old cranky uncle”, he’d be rubbing old wounds and grouching about how things were better in his day but he describes himself as “a realist and an optimist”, qualities that save musicians and activists alike from a bitter, disappointed middle age.
(5) David Cameron slotted into the pattern by assiduously cultivating a new generation of Murdochs and turning them against the old grouch in Downing Street.