Si Cwan had once remarked that Kebron had gone overnight from a typically surly teenager to a feelings-obsessed adult.

"If the AIs are our children, as the blessed Diana taught us," King Douglas said dryly, "God help us when they become surly teenagers."

Most of Murray's critics behave like surly teenagers.

Like birds perched on telephone wires, surly teenagers used to plant themselves on the railings just outside the door, smoking, drinking, shouting rude words at customers and making regular disruptive forays inside.

A surly teenager can sour the occasion by sulking, and the burning of the joint gathers tragic overtones.

The newest hollowed-out Bush word to mask the endgame in Iraq is "phase," as if the increasing violence were as transitional as the growing pains of a surly teenager.

Low-attention-span kids and surly teenagers watch.

It's up to you to find Manny, but before you do, you'll have to contend with surly teenagers, crabby senior citizens, and those rotten Whirley Street kids.

Has your cheerful, sweet-natured child become a surly teenager?

He was driving east on Broad Street, where surly teenagers lingered on corners and in front of boarded-up buildings, glaring at the unmarked car with all of its antennas and hidden blue lights.