huffiness

Not once did I encounter the kind of huffiness that restaurants as busy as this one often project.

We agreed that a united front was necessary here, but I was warned to be prepared for wheedling and huffiness.

The hologram's huffiness seemed to abate at the ego-preening.

Though the words were sharp, the voice that spoke them was feeble and the huffiness in the tone pathetically assumed.

Some of the huffiness dropped away.

"If you think he'll need the help I'll ignore the huffiness, but I think he can handle it on his own."

More like the huffiness between a divorced couple who want to conduct themselves with decorum but simply can't stop bickering.

Among its features, he said, are "tenacity, sanctimoniousness, huffiness, a stubborn lack of a sense of humor."

"Well, yes, it is," Rosco said, a hint of huffiness coming into his voice, "and it's not getting any younger, you know.

All the acronyms, the different groupings, the various cabals, the insistence on following due process, the huffiness when due process isn't followed.

The words were still inside my head somewhere, still bouncing with indignation and huffiness, but they were no longer first in line and maybe not even second.

Thomas Weidemeyer, president of UPS Airlines, mustered some huffiness about the jokes.

She had been increasingly short with him since their night encounter with Micah Willows, and he had responded with injured huffiness.

Sheryl Lee Ralph as his national security adviser, Gayle Redford, exhibits a cool, glossy huffiness more appropriate to a pop diva than a government official.

Dashes of vaudevillian humor are provided by Ms. Alston, who shoos off Mr. Hall's advances with an exaggerated huffiness.

Doreen Hepburn plays Helen as a regal grande dame whose agonized confessions of concealed family secrets are delivered with an affected huffiness.

Ms. DiCioccio recalled that Ms. Nugent responded with "a bit of huffiness and wanted to know if I was pulling her leg."

The Slug made the Nestbuilder fold its armoured, spindly limbs across its mouthparts, a gesture of displeased huffiness.

Ms. Sullivan's is a dramatic medley of "Remind Me" and "I Must Have That Man," that segues from comic huffiness to romantic obsession.

Auntie can even learn from the Queen's huffiness; like Her Majesty, it does not need to take off its public service tiara in a grubby attempt to grab a few more viewers.

The first few times I saw her after the conversation under the eaves, I was ready for at least a bit of huffiness, but no, she was completely civil, if a little flat.

All this talk brought to mind the national huffiness about Hillary Rodham Clinton's taking her name back, and, by extension, about her taking up any space at all in Washington.

Then, while it seemed that he was the one who was going to apply the antiseptic - a job she could do quite well herself - he was speeding away any huffiness she felt at that last thought by asking her her name.

But I have been determined that things should go smoothly, so I have never taken any notice, and when she came yesterday she seemed so nice and sweet again that I hoped she had got over her huffiness and we could be the chums we used to be.