(1) So often did John torment his elder brother – because, grouchy alcoholic prick that he was, he hated to acknowledge a debt – one has to wonder if he cast Francis in a minor part in Young Mr Lincoln simply to let him witness, day after day, his own signature role being forever obliterated by Henry Fonda's entrancing new reading.
(2) A case of a 4-year old boy with de Grouchy syndrome was reported.
(3) According to Jean de Grouchy, the emergence of a new species is dependent on an "acceptable" chromosomic rearrangement, which passing from the heterozygous state (in the original bearer) to the homozygous state (in some of his enbred offspring) becomes definitively established and creates a population sexually isolated from its acestors.
(4) That, perhaps, is an aspect of Mourinho that is often overlooked, that while he can be grouchy with the media, while he pursues feuds with rivals and can fall out with his own players, he is also capable of inspiring devotion.
(5) The nine actors had never come together since, in large part because of the grouchiness of Plummer.
(6) Then her adoptive parents Hans and Rosa ( Geoffrey Rush , all twinkly grandpa, and Emily Watson , super-grouchy but with a heart of gold) take in and hide the Jewish son of the man who saved Hans's life in the Great War.
(7) Keener and Hoffman make a plausibly grouchy-affectionate couple, each wondering about paths not taken 25 years earlier, while Daniel is the group's fanatic purist, a violin-maker and teacher, insistent on emotional engagement with the music and the composer, but in the group's social dynamics he usually plays the devil's note.
(8) During the final flutters of 2011, as Britons shivered under grouchy skies, the best three triathletes in the world sat down to play poker in Lanzarote.
(9) Following an introductory illustration of the clinical characteristics of the 18q syndrome (De Grouchy syndrome), the paper describes the treatment carried out in a young patient with harelip and cleft palate in addition to chromosomopathy.
(10) Despite much angsty speculation by Guardian colleagues that Stevens's star wattage would allow him to beef up his part at the expense of theirs, his role, by the final cut, had been reduced to a cameo as grouchy factotum, grumbling in turn about Assange and Guardian investigative reporter Nick Davies .
(11) Two studies were conducted on samples of high school boys (N = 210); both confirmed the presence of five mood factors: Cheerful-Depressed, Energetic-Tired, Good natured-Grouchy, Confident-Unsure, and Relaxed-Anxious.
(12) Pundits scoff at their naivety, but opinion polls show the leader of this revolution – a grouchy socialist with unkempt white hair and a disdain for media niceties – pulling ahead of more-polished establishment rivals in the race to lead his party.
(13) Suddenly, for South Korea, there was a chance where previously there had merely been grouchy stalemate.
(14) This combination of symptoms is compared with the well known Bardet-Biedl syndrome and the De Grouchy syndrome and is found to constitute a new syndrome.
(15) So I can be grumpy and grouchy, and I can also be depressed.
(16) Some praise the books because they encourage boys to read, others criticise them for their toilet humour and irreverent attitude; the title character is a superhero devised by two young students about their grouchy school principal, Mr Krupp.
Uncomfortable
Definition:
(a.) Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position.
(a.) Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Companies had made investments in certain energy sources, the president said, so change could be “uncomfortable and difficult”.
(2) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
(3) Gibson's conclusions and the question he says now need to be address will make uncomfortable reading for former heads of the UK's intelligence agencies and for ministers of the last Labour government.
(4) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(5) Uncomfortable questions, which require an answer, whatever the result of the AV vote.
(6) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
(7) But this no-nonsense venue, just 10km but a world away from parliament, is the latest stop in a national pro-renewables tour that is making the Abbott government decidedly uncomfortable.
(8) Many physicians feel uncomfortable working with alcoholic people, mostly because of poor training, and this impinges on difficulties of giving excellent care to these taxing patients.
(9) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
(10) The frustrations include separation from family, uncomfortable living conditions, language barriers, and inability to change medical practices that seem improper.
(11) That's foolish, because Real Madrid rarely look more uncomfortable than at set pieces.
(12) There have been other complications in the past week, too: the admission that the NoW was involved in the hacking of Tessa Jowell's voicemails brings the uncomfortable realisation that an effort was made to target a serving cabinet minister.
(13) For the moment, the fit between older men and caring roles can be uncomfortable and is unlikely to get better, and all that can mean for the long term is more crises and more pressure on professional services, unless gender is put more firmly on the caring agenda.
(14) The worrying consequence is that the operating companies may find themselves the victims of an uncomfortable pincer movement.
(15) Physicians who are uncomfortable with this topic or who observe ongoing distress in their patients should refer these women to a mental health practitioner who is familiar with the issues common to women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse.
(16) It is suggested that a transcultural approach be adopted in managing cases in which the parents feel particularly anxious and uncomfortable about prematurely erupted teeth in order to cater for the social well-being of the child and family.
(17) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
(18) Fed up with rising energy bills and an uncomfortable home, Watson agreed to take part in a telephone survey about her energy use.
(19) It's an uncomfortable relationship when you're going in to squeeze something out of someone but you don't know what that is.
(20) The subsequent focus on James’s exit essentially gave his teammates a free pass from uncomfortable questions about why they were so poor without him.