cantankerously

Always, of course, there's the New York you hear: this city has to be more richly, if cantankerously, aural than any other in the hemisphere.

"Well, it does seem to, me that you are most cantankerously particular about a little thing, Sim Robinson.

"He's taking his time," Zerft said cantankerously.

But a weather-beaten oil seller with an equally threadbare horse blocked the way and cantankerously wouldn't budge.

Cantankerously she said, "Don't be ridiculous.

Another forlorn character, Fiona Apple, returns in November with her second album, which, cantankerously, has a 90-word title.

He never reached such eminence again and had caddied, less reliably and more cantankerously, for a succession of middling golfers.

"I know, I know," Daily said cantankerously.

Knowing I would never fall back to sleep with the commotion outside, I got out of bed and cantankerously started my day an hour earlier than usual.

And with a joyfully cantankerous, or cantankerously joyful question mark from France named Boris Diaw.

Nascar's niche popularity was founded on the accessibility of Richard Petty, and then the cantankerously lovable Dale Earnhardt.

And so did a powerful voice cantankerously insisting that television, which he always praised as the most democratic medium, could be far more than a tireless purveyor of fluffy diversions.

I forbid you to like it," Marr cantankerously declared on his Twitter page this week, targeting the current leader of the U.K.'s Conservative Party.

They stay cantankerously close through marriages and divorce (to other people, from other people), fame and super-fame, illness and suffering, never quite lovers but walking a tightrope of attraction.

Morton consults his former professor Charles T. Jackson (Julius Tannen), who cantankerously suggests cooling the gums and roots with topical application of chloric ether.

And he's right, but fortunately for him, Slim Shady, rather than being shocking, is becoming familiar, even cantankerously cuddly, setting the stage for the emergence of a new kingfish sometime soon.

The other "hands" can refine these readings-Neptune's period is so cantankerously different from that of Pluto that the two fall into approximately repeated configuration only once in seven hundred and fifty-eight years.

It's probably not surprising that the cantankerously opinionated Judd, the Minimalist sculptor who died in 1994, would abhor the curved planes and network of angles that characterize Mr. Gehry's architectural designs.

The novel opens with two down-and-out book dealers, Silverfish and Dryfeld, cantankerously following a westward path toward Wales via the border town of Hay-on-Wye, home to Britain's biggest literary festival.

The protagonist is an insubordinate junior diplomat who is appointed as ambassador to this cantankerously independent planet in the hope that he will be assassinated (as the previous ambassador had been), thereby justifying the forcible invasion and conquest of the Texans.

Some personality traits of the cantankerously lovable, occasionally cigar-smoking, Jewish native of the Lower East Side are popularly recognized as having been inspired by those of co-creator Jack Kirby, who in interviews has said he intended Grimm to be an alter ego of himself.

Gale Gordon (February 20, 1906 - June 30, 1995) was an American character actor perhaps best remembered as Lucille Ball's longtime television foil-and particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television situation comedy, The Lucy Show.

And he would've been perversely and cantankerously proud to be labeled as one - since he would've understood that elitism is only a term of opprobrium when applied to the material world, - where elitism is to corporeal war what sinn fein was to the IRA.