How To Use Curmudgeon In A Sentence
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This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
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If you leave the theater without a smile on your face, then you're really a curmudgeon .
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And the loveable curmudgeon is responsible for most of literature's best quotations, maxims and aphorisms.
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I was grading for a real curmudgeon, the grump who wound up being my thesis advisor.
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Paul:How about to my editor, the old curmudgeon? Excuse me. He took me off the Anaconda story. I'm a reporter at The Bee.
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At some moments the soloist's rubato might have seemed overly attenuated, but it would be curmudgeonly to complain, particularly in the light of his ravishingly beautiful treatment of sequential passages.
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There have been too many times when I've been relieved to finally be able to post a halfway-positive review after a string of scathingly negative ones, because I was starting to worry I was coming off as some kind of buzzkill curmudgeon.
Archive 2009-03-08
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The old curmudgeon was talking about the smothering effects of parental duty on creative lives.
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_ Before George, there is not enough to rig out a mournival of whores: They'll think me grown a mere curmudgeon.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
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And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
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These aren't just the mutterings of an old curmudgeon.
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At this point she clearly dismissed me as a curmudgeonly fussbudget, which I most assuredly am.
Laissez-Fairing: Rules vs. Aerodynamics
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If Ebeneezer Scrooge could become open-hearted and generous after spending a lifetime as a curmudgeon and miser, there is hope for Uncle Fred.
Dr. Judith Rich: Making Gratitude the Main Course at Thanksgiving
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A 78- year-old curmudgeon, he enjoyed his modest life as a balloon seller because he shared it with his adventurous wife Ellie.
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Straus was Ickes's alter ego a newspaperman, a liberal, a fighter, a curmudgeon.
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Every now and then some would-be curmudgeon rises up on his hind legs and yowls at the sky that the latest form of social networking is a blight on the cultural landscape and proves that people have nothing better to do than post pictures of their pets in various shocking forms of dishabille.
MIND MELD: How Does Blogging and Social Networking Affect the Publishing Industry?
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But I can guarantee that the distraction trope will be pulled out of the refrigerator and reheated again and again as the curmudgeons raise alarms about the destructive power of the next shiny thing.
Jeff Jarvis: The Distraction Trope
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The brothers delighted in their new-found reputation as the British film industry's curmudgeons.
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The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village.
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We don't want householders to feel like curmudgeons which is why the posters wish callers an enjoyable night.
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Again I find myself wearing the cloak of the curmudgeon.
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Like tennis, it's an old sport and has likewise evolved its own distinctive language with charm aplenty to disarm this non-sporty, youngish curmudgeon.
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As a world-class spoilsport and curmudgeon, I now have less and less anecdotal material to fall back on when I want to blast another society.
French Twist: Meet Monsieur Nice Guy
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I haven't finished the book yet (she is fifteen) but my overall impression is of a changeable curmudgeon but not a monster.
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A curmudgeon will sigh that this has led to a lowering of standards at the top of the Premier League, but those old-fashioned enough to enjoy uncertainty will find the game's appeal enhanced.
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Paul S: From yesterday's Observer, a review of the new compilation - complete with obligatory use of 'curmudgeonly':
FallNews
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`It'll do you good to get your glad rags on and stop behaving like an old curmudgeon ,' she'd told Tara briskly.
JUST BETWEEN US
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Neither was much liked on release - his curmudgeonly socialism was out of step with the times - but hindsight may teach us to value them better.
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Many of the books we see these days perched perfectly in high street seasonal window displays are written by static, worn-out, curmudgeonly blatherskites.
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Apparently I'm just a title curmudgeon this morning :
Strong Women Characters
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his curmudgeonly temper
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Whiteside, who gives new meaning to the word curmudgeon, takes over the living room and all sorts of celebrities show up to wish the famous man a joyful holiday.
BroadwayWorld.com St. Petersburg Stories
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With beetled brow, sour humor and a curmudgeonly look at life, Rooney has become a media staple.
Five People Born on January 14 | myFiveBest
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Overpriced in my opinion, but at least on the brink of bearability, even with my curmudgeonly grumbling.
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Put a smile on the face of the grouchiest curmudgeon.
The Sun
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Most self-described curmudgeons would probably go along with that, though with the addendum that their resentments and stubborn notions are, to some degree, justified by a brutish, venal world.
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Paranoid and deeply unlikable curmudgeon that he was, O'Brian had used his shadowy false identity as a screen against the prying eyes of the world.
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When I'm not attempting rapid-fire commentary on celebrities' outfits and Ryan Seacrest's gumline here on HuffPo, I can be found on my blog, The Sassy Curmudgeon.
Una LaMarche: 2011 Oscars Live Blog (VIDEO)
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He's a mean, mingy quasi nutcase curmudgeon who threatens players, gives them cold pricklies, and who demands attention to things like gameplan, tactics, and skills.
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After all, they have come to expect intelligent and sensitive cultural commentary from this site; not the lager-fuelled ravings of an embittered curmudgeon.
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This image of Bloom as traditionalist curmudgeon is considerably at odds with the impression one might have gotten from his critical writings of the 1970s and 1980s, in which Bloom advances his own intricate (if ultimately rather private, even hermetic) theory of literary production and reception that does indeed focus on poetic greatness but hardly defends tradition for tradition's sake.
Principles of Literary Criticism
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My suspicion is that the reason for the generally low opinion held of the pessimist is related to his close ties to the critic, the cynic, the misanthrope, the whiner and the curmudgeon.
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I sometimes even watch the rest of it because Dvorak is such a curmudgeon, and the guests are interesting too.
Scripting News for 6/19/2007 « Scripting News Annex
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I withdraw some of my earlier curmudgeoning (although not all of it - the Games are still bound to cost a mint and cause lots of disruption).
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We don't seem to be all that filled with holiday spirit around here, but I'm kind of curmudgeonly about that anyway except around my family, so I kind of don't mind ...
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
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As we near the term's end, there remains one embarrassing element in Canadian politics that sticks out like a sore thumb - a collection of grumpy curmudgeons who care only about scoring cheap political points.
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The general spirit of bonhomie and celebration lifts even curmudgeons like me over the worst stretches of inanity.
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Is there something curmudgeonly about the fact I take some pride in having read none of the 30 bestselling books of 2009 [9]?
A Progressive on the Prairie » Weekend Edition 3-27 » Print
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The cockies are a curmudgeonly lot at the best of times.
Milk Scandal Spoils
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This campaign, incidentally, is being seriously impeded not just by my own curmudgeonliness, but more by the lack of a mate to drag along.
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As we approach the announcement of the winner of the award it seems like the perfect time to celebrate some of the curmudgeons and grumps that (for whatever reason) decided not to play…
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Critics are virtually unanimous in praising this movie, so in order to maintain my reputation as a cynical curmudgeon, I'd like to point you to the comments by dissenting critic David Edelstein (hat tip to Jeffrey Overstreet).
Movie Review: Juno
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Paul:How about to my editor, the old curmudgeon? Excuse me. He took me off the Anaconda story. I'm a reporter at The Bee.
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As for chatty passenger/neighbors, my experience as professional grump and curmudgeon is never get started with such folks in the pro-flight phase because if you do, they don’t let up and they are led to believe that you actually want to talk and find them engaging — as if if they are doing you a favor by keeping you busy and informed about their life.
Travelogue: the flight. « A Bird’s Nest
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Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence.
April « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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No matter what happens in Wednesday's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, you can say this about the last six years in sports: It's been a wonderful ride for purists, history buffs, musty old fogies, moss-grown fuddy-duddies, unapologetic curmudgeons and anyone who has spent the last six decades in a Cryogenic tube.
Score One for the Ghosts of History
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As for my getting more and more curmudgeonly, that is an outright calumny).
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Damon admits that some might consider this approach "curmudgeonly," but his larger point is that philanthropy will only reach its full potential by admitting and examining its weaknesses better than it does at present.
Archive 2007-07-01
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This drear December day finds Backword in curmudgeonly mood, barely able to string two words together without an epithet or at least a ‘bah’ or a ‘humbug.’
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Straus was Ickes's alter ego a newspaperman, a liberal, a fighter, a curmudgeon.
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He is a bit of a curmudgeon who changes his mind all the time, but he is still likable.
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I can see how his combination of gentle clownishness and fierce curmudgeonliness would have a muse-like effect on the people he works with.
Serious and Silly Filmmaking in Denmark
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He certainly makes a convincing case that every trick in comics has been learned from those early newspaper strips, but it would be foolish and unfair to see that as the extent of Spiegelman's argument, painting him as a curmudgeonly anachronist.
The Comics Journal
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At Precocious Curmudgeon, David Welsh takes a look at King City in pamphlet form.
Quick pamphlet comments
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Something in me wants to tell all these kids to go back to school and get a proper education - but I don't, of course, because I don't want to sound like an old curmudgeon.
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Aside from regular updates from the future, the curmudgeon began his blogging career with a series of planetary profiles packed with references that are both esoteric and Aesopian.
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True, a few Cancerians pretend they're curmudgeons; but even you'll realise life is easier - and more fun - if you wear your heart on your sleeve.
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In truth, he often proved an irascible, frustrating curmudgeon at the tribunal but people loved him for it.
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Only a curmudgeon would care that gamboling kittens may damage a few plants.
Gardens and Kittens with Recipe for Eggplant Kebab on Rosemary Skewers (Κεμπάμπ με Μελιτζάνες και Δενδρολίβανο)
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Sinclair, a curmudgeon of taste and integrity, defends the river against the shoddy plans of the Chamber of Commerce.
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Unfortunately, according to everyone whom Nocera interviewed, with the curmudgeonly exception of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, or Taleb to his cohorts and clients and opponents, this course of what most people would call arrogant incaution was essentially a systemic mandate.
Paul(as in Krugman)and Wendell(as in Berry)and Deborah(in lieu of Rupert), Oh My!!
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Hawkowl, I would gladly accede to the label curmudgeon, but I'll never be a snarkling, and I don't do groveling.
Miss Snark resembles a Shar-pei
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Now, Im not one of those curmudgeons who grouse that their grandfather used a straight razor, stropped on a buffalo hide, so they use one too.
Razor Technology, On The Cutting Edge
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But the important thing for this jaded curmudgeon is that I am no longer an Art Show virgin.
Boskone Report
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Living in a village myself I can almost identify with the characters in the Curmudgeon.
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This was Chade's curmudgeonly observation as we sat over wine one evening.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The chief and best-known one is the explanation of the word curmudgeon -- "from the French coeur, unknown, and mechant, a correspondent.
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
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The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village.
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Deadpan humour abounds and the curmudgeonly Fin has a whole repertoire of exasperated sighs and steely stares as he attempts to bite the hand of friendship.
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And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
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Loses points however for reducing The Fall's world view to "curmudgeonly".
FallNews - Unreadable.....
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Read a selection of past interviews and you're left with a picture of a truculent, grumpy old curmudgeon.
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But if Snoop Dogg's inclusion disgruntles any curmudgeonly indie fans it will hardly make a difference:
The First Post: Latest
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I was going to say the same as Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk — I learned the word as a second-year law student, clerking for a firm in Urbana, Illinois; I was assigned to draft an Affidavit to accompany a Motion for Summary Judgment, and reminded to “check the form of jurat for Wisconsin, since that is where the Affiant will sign it”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jurat
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Call me a crotchety curmudgeon, but I started on this book with two mental blocks.
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This attempt at self-denial lasted approximately one minute, after which I gave up and found myself agreeing with all the bad-tempered, curmudgeonly opinions being aired.
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In his Wednesday column, New York Post curmudgeon Steve Cuozzo railed against the "casualization" and loungification of New York City restaurants.
Eater National
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It's tempting for every generation to come over all 'curmudgeonly' with the next generation.
Undefined
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Geri - not to detract from this overall thread - but please continue to post wherever you feel your comment needs to go - do not be deterred by one "curmudgeon" - I for one miss you posts. jerezano
Very Interesting Population Article
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And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
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The New Yorker wrote that the book presented itself as “a call to arms, in a world spinning rapidly into subliteracy, by a hip yet unapologetic curmudgeon, a stickler for the rules of writing” but the reviewer expressed the opinion that “it’s hard to fend off the suspicion that the whole thing might be a hoax”.
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynn Truss vs. Ate, Shot and Left by David Crystal (English)
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I am sure they thought me curmudgeonly and grumpy for my silence.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Only the worst curmudgeon could dislike this site.
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Then of course there are curmudgeons like me who think it's a waste of time to invent something that helps nincompoops organize their recipes, play solitaire, or set a trap for a wireless mouse.
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In making these assertions, I am not being a curmudgeon, a whiner or a spoilsport.
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What is it about the ageing process that turns us into moaning curmudgeons who think everything is going to pot?
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Rooney’s remark was curmudgeonly, which is what he does for a living.
Is Discrimination Against Latinos Getting More Costly? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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Straus was Ickes's alter ego a newspaperman, a liberal, a fighter, a curmudgeon.
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Then of course there are curmudgeons like me who think it's a waste of time to invent something that helps nincompoops organize their recipes, play solitaire, or set a trap for a wireless mouse.
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Developments like these make the former FDA commissioner David Kessler, a kindly curmudgeon, optimistic.
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Veteran TV and stage actor Eric Peterson - best known as the curmudgeonly Oscar Leroy on
Thestar.com - Home Page
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They are workers, or spouses, curmudgeons, derelicts, or hopeless romantics.
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From the stack: Time and Again vol. 1 « The Manga Curmudgeon
From the stack: Time and Again vol. 1
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Hard not like a man who describes himself as "an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.
Deo gratias ..
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I am an enemy of progress and a mean-spirited curmudgeon.
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Carli, unlucky at love but still hopeful, works at a deli alongside curmudgeonly Ed Asner, who serves up grouchy asides "You want a spark, chew on a lamp cord" with all the energy of a narcotized bulldog.
Roush Review: Comedy, Animated and Rehashed
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He takes his shots at me, but he has an acerbic, curmudgeonly style that gives me a laugh and he happily owns up to his prejudices.
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With a down-home Cork folksiness that frequently irritates, he addresses himself as though to an audience of elderly curmudgeons, pooh-poohing the antics and excesses of the younger generation.
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Read a selection of past interviews and you're left with a picture of a truculent, grumpy old curmudgeon.
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Who can be found this quirky capital of curmudgeons and quidnuncs?
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It speaks, a little, to me as an affirmation the we (or maybe just I) are more optimistic than pessimistic, which is a bit of a stretch for someone that has been described as curmudgeonly since the age of about 18 or so.
The impersistence of memory
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Among those of us who look on, a few will be curmudgeonly - carping at inaccuracies or misrepresentations of the original.
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His last industry job was with IBM Rational Software, where he was known as "the RUP Curmudgeon" and was also a member of the original Rational Suite team.
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Beneath this curmudgeonly exterior lurks the soft heart and even softer head of a hapless romantic.
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The first time I attended Book Expo was so long ago it was called ABA, the American Booksellers Association pause to shout out to my fellow curmudgeons who don't believe that mashing together a non-word like "Expo" with a perfectly good word like "Book" is an improvement on either one, nor that putting the mashup next to "America" can turn the latter into an adjective.
Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America
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One can see that his colleagues must have regarded him as a cross-grained old curmudgeon.
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And the loveable curmudgeon is responsible for most of literature's best quotations, maxims and aphorisms.
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The curmudgeon felt their initial routine was too lackluster and "piddly" so he gives them a good ol 'kick in the butt, metaphorically speaking, of course.
Reality TV Calendar Headlines
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His beautifully enunciated vowels and curmudgeonly misogyny were so accurately rendered that he took over the stage whenever he appeared.
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As we approach the announcement of the winner of the award it seems like the perfect time to celebrate some of the curmudgeons and grumps that (for whatever reason) decided not to play…