cantankerousness

Cantankerousness among teammates, who must stay within 100 feet of one another for the entire race, is common.

"Cantankerousness is the building block of the counterculture," he said.

Rock is peculiar among art forms in its sheer cantankerousness.

Robert perfectly well knew from experience that there was more than just cantankerousness keeping George silent.

Cantankerousness, on the other hand, has been found to be a protective characteristic among the elderly.

And this cantankerousness within the aging Jazz may be the team's saving grace.

The old man's natural spunk and cantankerousness was returning rapidly.

People were often intimidated by Wilson's reputation for cantankerousness, but he could also be gracious.

But there is a touching explanation for his cantankerousness.

Nobody could be sure that the 84-year-old Ballard, who has made a career of cantankerousness, was joking.

Cantankerousness is undoubtedly part of the conservative's job description.

You deal with them with your dwindling stock of human cantankerousness and grace.

The chemistry still works, her charm smoothing out the edges of his cantankerousness.

While his manner is generally easygoing, he sometimes displays a flash of cantankerousness.

Emerson, who raised cantankerousness to an exquisite pitch, renounced photography in 1891, saying it was not an art after all.

His chronic cantankerousness has felt more authentic.

The closest he comes to fallibility is a weary cantankerousness that registers more like hostility than weakness.

There were certain constants in the universe and Worf' s cantankerousness was one of them.

They portray him as a confused mixture of honesty and cantankerousness: a big heart governed by a stroppy mind.

It was pure cantankerousness in her.

It was her night to go home and sleep, but Naomi's words haunted her, although she believed they were born of pure "cantankerousness."

That cantankerousness could boil over.

But as a token of Mr. Brown's confidence and cantankerousness, it's heartening.

Kincaid always criticized, and Gemma never changed her order, probably, he thought, out of pure cantankerousness.

In the biting envy and cantankerousness of Pike Purcell he had found companionship, if no more.