splenetic

I used to wonder why my family treasured this image of themselves as splenetic people.

There are poems about other poets he knew, sometimes splenetic in tone.

This "education" often drives us to splenetic obsessions with some particular error.

In the splenetic terms usually reserved for closing arguments.

But analysts see these splenetic exchanges as mostly posturing.

The result is like a time-capsule version of a splenetic blog rant.

But I shall not be splenetic, no matter how keen the fight in the Senate."

She played Bill Clinton, fresh from her interview with him in a scene featuring some splenetic observations on the media.

His insights are sharp and splenetic, and often funny.

A lot of what went on in these meetings was just a more splenetic version of complaints that had already been sent through channels.

But the review from Queenan was so personal and splenetic, it was often the first thing people brought up.

There's a pervasive carping, splenetic tone that pervades these last books, sinking them.

At their liveliest, the monologues offer splenetic laughter, imaginatively induced.

The director himself portrays Caesar as splenetic, sadistic and ailing, a man asking to be assassinated.

This splenetic disrelish of his place was evinced in almost every function pertaining to it.

For once, the splenetic seer's judgment is fractionally off-target - about two tiny details, anyway.

Others verged on the splenetic.

Dash, who at times rivals the splenetic John Raven, reserves his spleen for forsythia.

Instead, they traded verbal spitballs on the noon, evening and late-night news in a splenetic display of personal antagonism.

In any case, her splenetic comic style, essentially kvetching on an operatic scale, is entirely her own.

A new app invites splenetic readers to digitally "burn" books they hate (then chastises them for trying).

She's going to be paying for your over-generous retirement benefits until the day you choke to death on your own splenetic indignation.

He is depicted with a sappiness at odds with Bogosian's gift for the splenetic.

There are broad satires on modern life, relentlessly splenetic opinions and clever linguistic riffs that he may well have included for his own amusement.

The author calls this degraded place Miami, and he mourns its physical and moral wreckage with splenetic, comic rage.