How To Use petulance In A Sentence
- Of course, a healthy dose of petulance is is one of the hallmarks of polemics (to say nothing of talk show hosts), right? "That's one of the things that really bugs me about religion."
- Or did we perhaps witness a cheeky acknowledgement by the show's writing team that Tommy needs some character traits -- other than sterility and petulance, that is -- pronto? Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
- I mean, I’m sympathetic, but petulance is not an excuse here. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Reminder
- These characters frequently bear expressions of mindless petulance, as if adult emotions of rage and frustration were seething beneath their all too kawaii surface.
- Such fabulously unlikeable petulance, such hubris and arrogance. Times, Sunday Times
- Pope gained but little in the warfare he waged with him, for this plain reason -- that the great poet accuses his adversary of dullness, which was not by any means one of his sins, instead of selecting one of the numerous faults, such as pertness, petulance, and presumption, of which he was really guilty. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
- The notion of failure ( "the sand in the oyster that isn't a pearl", as he wrote in Anyone Can Whistle) was quickly incorporated as a theme, along with ambivalence, mild irritation, petulance and panic - states and sentiments that traditional musicals shove aside for the bigger, blowsier ones. Culture | guardian.co.uk
- He tore up the manuscript in a fit of petulance.
- He gives us petulance rather than pain, self-pity rather than rage. Times, Sunday Times
- When I looked at the insular P----, and his active rod, I thought him like to Archimedes who had found his extramundane spot of ground, and, as he threw the fly, and bent his back to let it touch the water lightly, was endeavouring to fasten his lever to the base of the adjacent mountain in order to consummate his wish of raising the world; and the circumfluous R---- with his long tackle, that hissed when he cast it with the petulance of an angry switch, appeared an ocean god, who had selected a shorter route to the North Cape by the A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
