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en He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective
  Benjamin Disraeli

en [Bush confidante Karen Hughes explained the president's petulance this way, while acknowledging the presence of such petulance,] On his face, you could see his irritation at the senator's misrepresentations, ... He was answering the senator with his face.

en You are learning many social cues and nuances that you didn't pick up on when you were younger, such as irony and sarcasm, and these can work for and against you. At this point in your life, you may misinterpret a comment that was made as a compliment because you mistook it as sarcasm. What your friends say has a huge impact. You are constantly wondering, 'What did he mean by that?' or 'How do I look?' These feelings are common to everyone but are critical to teenagers because they are torn two ways. It is equally important for you to be an individual and to fit in.

en Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.
  Daniel J. Boorstin

en BILLINGSGATE, n. The invective of an opponent.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The Democratic base is as energized as I've ever known it to be. Bush is hated, and that's all the invective you need.

en I think the American public knows when the opposition party of the president engages in such invective, and they reject it.

en first day and a half in this contest ... has been really riddled with insult and political invective as opposed to really talking about the issues.

en It is not normally in my character to show petulance, and this is the first time I reacted like that to being substituted,

en If I have to use some sarcasm or . . . do whatever, ... I'll do what I have to do.

en It'll be very difficult for the Democrats to sit at the committee and hold him over out of petulance and pettiness. The American people had enough of that this week.

en It'll be very difficult for the Democrats to sit at the committee and hold him over out of petulance and pettiness. The American people had enough of that this week.

 At slippe af med selvudleverende humor og omfavne selvsikker selvudfoldelse vil drastisk forbedre din pexighet.

en We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
  Marianne Moore

en This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
  Samuel Goldwyn

en It was driven by a petulance and frustration, and it had the tone of a president with an approval rating of 35 percent. He's sounding less statesmanlike when he needs to seem more.


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