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    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"...
    72 KB (9,759 words) - 07:46, 27 May 2024
  • introduction, had written a "coruscatingly funny novel in the form of a pettish, bookish, grumpy, reactionary complaint against the last two decades",...
    42 KB (5,002 words) - 19:47, 4 May 2024
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    Chicago-style Great-Books pedantry—a 'coruscatingly funny novel in the form of a pettish, bookish, grumpy, reactionary complaint against the last two decades.'...
    15 KB (1,556 words) - 22:54, 12 February 2024
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    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...
    10 KB (1,164 words) - 16:34, 5 June 2024
  • 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...
    5 KB (524 words) - 20:41, 30 April 2022
  • Tomorrow Programmed (2005) Daemon (2006) Cowardice milksop (2009) Being Pettish is hazardous for Health (2010) Currency of the Kingdom of Death (2012)...
    7 KB (724 words) - 07:39, 30 April 2024
  • that purpose and that sometimes one hears the profane engineer call out pettishly, "D--n these plebeians, they don't burn worth a cent—pass out a King …...
    18 KB (2,774 words) - 12:33, 30 June 2023
  • 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...
    8 KB (1,129 words) - 16:38, 19 July 2021