tetchiness

But I think a little tetchiness is called for right now.

She remembered his tetchiness with shop assistants, which presumably had been simulated.

"I've not been idle, my Lord," he said with a touch of tetchiness.

But is that any reason for tetchiness?

Almost three decades later, the tetchiness between the United States and France has not disappeared.

Let's not forget, either, the fierce and forbidding tetchiness of many black people, which discourages whites from discussing the problem.

(Was there an unwonted note of tetchiness in Conrad's voice?) '

"Don't fuss, boy," Cipse snapped with the ghost of his old tetchiness.

There is no tetchiness, no impatience.

Even now, despite the "atmosphere of tetchiness" that his book fully captures, Mr. Wyman thinks so too.

Afterwards you remembered their tetchiness - their fallibility - their kindness - their humanity.

Sherborne's tetchiness began bordering on belligerence.

Whether they can also overcome the tetchiness inherent to gasifiers remains to be seen, in ongoing programs in Africa, Mongolia and Afghanistan.

Reading Forsyth's autobiography you sense a seam of tetchiness, a feeling that he has not always been appreciated quite as much as he should have been.

Yesterday the only sign of tetchiness was between Charles Oakley and John Starks, who play on the same team, but that's nothing new for these Knicks.

Perhaps, Burley and Boulton were on banker type bonuses to ensure a Tory majority and their tetchiness is more monetary than idealogical.

The tetchiness began a couple of weeks ago, when Mr. Lutz was quoted by a German newspaper as questioning why Chrysler was promoting a seven-year, 70,000-mile warranty on its vehicles.

Speaking mostly from notes, Mr. Clinton was said to have spoken with both warmth and tetchiness, but to have focused more on the political than on the personal lessons he had gleaned since taking office.

The tetchiness of Florida's Democratic leaders over Mr. Sharon's appearance reflects their concern at the Republican effort to realign the Jewish vote in a crucial state that was once solidly Democratic.

But ask yourself seriously: do you really, truly feel that anyone is going to be in the slightest affected one way or another - apart from developing a Muzak-like tetchiness towards Beethoven - by all these symbols?

He tried to say it as if he knew it were a big question, but it came out all wrong: the gravity sounded, to him at least, like tetchiness, as if there were a 'now' missing from the end.

Perhaps it was Michelle's hungover condition and resulting tetchiness that was setting her apart from the other onlookers, but her reluctance to be engaged by the spectacle caused her to see what was otherwise being deliberately obscured by artifice.

The cloying cuteness that has curdled some of her recent fiction is largely absent here, and so is the tetchiness of her last novel ("Back When We Were Grown-Ups") that pushed its characters perilously close to caricature.

The tetchiness of chefs, according to culinary historians and chefs themselves, can be traced to two factors: the sometimes medieval working conditions of professional kitchens, which are hot, jammed, high-stress places, and the European tradition of running the show like a small dictatorship.

Ornette Coleman's country hymns get in there, as do Woody Herman's close-harmony writing for saxophones, Charles Mingus's tetchiness and ensemble friction, Lennie Tristano's rambling counterpoint and the mesmerizing wail of Pharoah Sanders.