- Chicago-style Great-Books pedantry—a 'coruscatingly
funny novel in the form of a
pettish, bookish, grumpy,
reactionary complaint against the last two decades.'...
- of "Lamia" confusing, and
describing "St Agnes" as
having a "sense of
pettish disgust" and "a 'Don Juan'
style of
mingling up
sentiment and sneering"...
- introduction, had
written a "coruscatingly
funny novel in the form of a
pettish, bookish, grumpy,
reactionary complaint against the last two decades",...
-
takes himself to be a wit"), and Sir Nicholas's
uncle Snarl ("an old,
pettish fellow, a
great admirer of the last age and a
declaimer against the vices...
- that
purpose and that
sometimes one
hears the
profane engineer call out
pettishly, "D--n
these plebeians, they don't burn
worth a cent—p**** out a King …...
- book.
While etching with a fine,
sharp wit the narrow-mindedness and
pettishness of the Pecks, she
lavishes on them a
tenderness that
lifts them above...
-
Empfindlichkeit (the
history of the sensibility, or: the
story of the
pettishness) a
monumental cycle of novels. His last set of
plans showed his intention...
