(1) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
(2) Blunkett is unapologetic: "If you're going to bring about change, you're going to break eggs, and the grump in the staffroom was always going to have one foot in the grave," he says.
(3) Look, nobody likes a grump – and a smile costs nothing.
(4) Andy darkly gruffing and grumping and breaking off every few minutes to check the Guardian homepage on his iPhone.
(5) When Pixar's new animated adventure Brave reaches UK cinemas next week, even grumps like me, who feel the picture falls short of the studio's usual standard , will be cheering in the streets.
(6) But those outside the fanbase seemed to throw a collective grump.
(7) On he grumped: "There are really serious critics of Vladimir Putin in Russia who deserve our attention much more than these three misguided young feminist rock musicians who have desecrated a cathedral."
(8) I learned the diverse regional terms for woodlouse, among them “chuggypig” (Cornwall), “sow-dug” (Essex), “slater” (Northern Ireland), “gramfy-coocher” (Somerset), and “johnny-grump” (Gloucestershire).
(9) But I see I am not the only grump: rapper and producer Wiley arrived in the rain and immediately wanted out.
(10) By then, I was editing the culture section of Marxism Today and procured an interview with that grump Jean Baudrillard.
(11) He's vigorous and passionate, and far from the dour grump he's often portrayed as.
(12) Fortunately (and I say this as the kind of grump who hates superlatives) my collaborator is without doubt the greatest pudding cook in the country.
(13) "As he'd freely admit he's got a streak of Scots grump to him, but he's brilliant at generating enthusiasm for your ideas.
(14) Were it not for José Mourinho, the Manchester United manager would be out on his own in the Premier League and the most reliable way to give Mr Grump a bit more hump is to ask him about his relationship with Ronald Koeman.
(15) He's Bruce Willis basking in the afterglow of Moonlighting , before he was curdled into a reluctant grump by the prospect of spending his entire life promoting second-rate sequels .
Habitually
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(2) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(3) II, the visual and auditory stimuli were exposed conversely over the habituation- (either stimulus) and the test-periods (both stimuli).
(4) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
(5) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
(6) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
(7) This contrasts sharply with the reduction in both the frequency and surface area of sensory neuron active zones that accompanies long-term habituation, and suggests that modulation of active zone number and size may be an anatomical correlate that lies in the long-term domain.
(8) Infants were habituated to models posing either prototypically positive displays (e.g., happy expressions) or positive expression blends (e.g., mock surprise).
(9) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
(10) Species differed with respect to speed of habituation but not with respect to sensitivity towards stimulus change.
(11) Intact animals showed habituation of exploratory behaviour toward a heterospecific fish after five consecutive encounters.
(12) Habitual physical activity in children is related to physical fitness and appears to mediate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors.
(13) This increase may be due to enhanced responding to sensory characteristics of foods resulting from a failure to habituate to food cues.
(14) The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is looking at restricting access to health services via a tighter habitual residency test.
(15) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
(16) These results extend the scope of immunologic circadian rhythms to the reticuloendothelial system as a feature of a bioperiodic defense mechanism, most active during the habitual rest light span of nocturnally active mice.
(17) A hypothesis is presented as to how certain occlusal relationships and habitual patterns of jaw use may predispose an individual to TMJ internal derangements.
(18) Each of 12 male habitual smokers with coronary artery disease was given dipyridamole (75 mg) and aspirin (324 mg), dipyridamole (75 mg) and placebo for aspirin, or a placebo for each drug 3 times daily for 1 week before each of three 20-minute periods (separated by 2 weeks) of smoking 2 cigarettes after a 12-hour period of abstinence.
(19) Diclofenac sodium suppositories 150-200 mg day-1 were compared with placebo in a double-blind study during the first 3 days after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty in 40 patients with habitual snoring or obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.
(20) An attempt was made to correlate the intelligence level of three well-defined groups (Gifted, IQ 140; Normal, 95 IQ 105: Mentally retarded, 45 IQ 55) and the habituation rate and pattern of a GSR response to a series of light stimuli.