How To Use Petulance In A Sentence
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And stranger than all was that, now that he did see that she was lost in love of him, there came to him, not sorrow and humility and abasement, but something else that he struggled in vain against -- something entirely strange and new, that, had he analysed it, he would have found to be petulance and irritation and resentment and ungentleness.
Widdershins
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His reaction, between petulance and rage, spoke volumes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.
Chapter XLIV
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Exhibiting a petulance last season, it has been alleged that he would throw tantrums if substituted in youth matches.
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His fitful petulance, his unsuccessful attempts to take control, his complete incomprehension of adult assumptions and mores.
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Leo sprang to his feet with an expression of petulance at yet another interruption.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
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Peter Frechette plays Peter as emerging into manhood from a scruffy, boyish petulance.
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He owns, however, that the vivacity of the French degenerates into petulance among foreigners, (p. 488.) and vain loquaciousness, (p. 9 Per viam quam jamdudum Carolus
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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It's only a matter of time before she goes and spoils it all with an act of self-destructive petulance or a complete misreading of a perfectly innocent situation.
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Frustrations, particularly those created by what he perceives as unjust treatment from match officials, can induce paranoid reactions that are too riddled with foul-mouthed bitterness to be euphemised as boyish petulance.
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His impassioned diatribes are laced with the queasy petulance of someone who already knows he's lost the fight, going to the mat with a whine instead of a real donnybrook.
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Although I know not, I dare say it is owing to some petty petulance, to some half-ungenerous advantage taken of his obligingness and assiduity.
Clarissa Harlowe
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He's a ham actor wearing caricature expressions: petulance, fury, arrogance, dismay.
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Following the herd, as the media advise, would lead me to applaud childish petulance, crudity, and bad manners.
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Everyone has had a pop at him for his petulance in chirping her and getting sent off.
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He could not do it yesterday, settling instead for a display of petulance and frustration.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's only a matter of time before she goes and spoils it all with an act of self-destructive petulance or a complete misreading of a perfectly innocent situation.
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China's new assertiveness is more than a matter of provocation and petulance.
China's Aggressive New Diplomacy
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Whether his resignation was tendered because of petulance or careful stratagem, he now has a real measure of the Government's dependence on him.
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It was always going to be a difficult game to officiate given Tyrone's willingness to hit the deck but White punished petulance as well as could have been expected.
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I have never seen him descend to such a depth of petulance and spitefulness that he reached last night.
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Frustrations, particularly those created by what he perceives as unjust treatment from match officials, can induce paranoid reactions that are too riddled with foul-mouthed bitterness to be euphemised as boyish petulance.
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Anger would have been misplaced, petulance completely out of character.
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They move in together and negotiate the complexities of their unequal relationship: Sophie is young and sexy, but culturally and economically insignificant; Carrère is famous and successful, but unable to be happy, crippled by his own petulance and self-absorption.
A Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrère – review
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As petulance and lust belong to the young more than to the old, yet not to all young men, but to those who are not virtuous; so that senile folly, which is commonly called dotage, belongs to weak old men, and not to all.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
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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
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I mean, I’m sympathetic, but petulance is not an excuse here.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Reminder
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These characters frequently bear expressions of mindless petulance, as if adult emotions of rage and frustration were seething beneath their all too kawaii surface.
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Such fabulously unlikeable petulance, such hubris and arrogance.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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He tore up the manuscript in a fit of petulance.
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He gives us petulance rather than pain, self-pity rather than rage.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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He gives us petulance rather than pain, self-pity rather than rage.
Times, Sunday Times
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They rowed and niggled years ago, most memorably here in 2005 when they jostled with Olympian petulance.
Australian Open 2011: Nalbandian and Hewitt fight dying of the light | Kevin Mitchell
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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."
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Calderwood was so angered by the petulance he refused to acknowledge his midfielder.
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That candidate wasn't establishment by any means, but the petulance is the same.
Pajamas Media
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It consisted chiefly of a dialogue between the two lovers; and the boy, with a wonderful ease and grace and skill, mimicked the shy coquetries of the girl, her fits of petulance and dictation, and the pathetic remonstrances of her companion, his humble entreaties and his final sullenness, which is only conquered by her sudden and ample consent.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
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babyish tears and petulance
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Lear, childlike in his petulance, denies Cordelia her dower.
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A slight degree of petulance had crept into his voice.
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SCHULZ: In what can only be characterized as petulance the Bush administration vented its displeasure with France for its opposition to military action in Iraq by opposing an increase in the level of the French-led U.N. peacekeeping effort in Ivory Coast.
CNN Transcript May 28, 2003
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Yet when he did get it right, for once finding space that was deemed legal, he spoilt it with a show of petulance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The old petulance, the bearlike hunching ill-temper of his bachelor days has vanished.
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But this imperious petulance, curiously as it contrasts with the patience which, a little later, she will display, is native to Ottima; she is not the victim of her nerves this morning, though now she passes without transition to a mood of sensuous cajolement --
Browning's Heroines
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Lope's success, of petulance and querulousness, and so on; and it was in this that the sting lay.
Don Quixote
