He encourages his reader to take a "complex" view of wealth, one that acknowledges the
splenetic perspective, but also reinstates the "the pleasures of wealth and greatness" and how they "strike the imagination as something grand and beautiful and noble" (183).
In contrast to Roger Lewis's
splenetic, vituperative biography of Anthony Burgess (2004), which cataloged its subject's flaws while ignoring the most "writerly" aspects of Burgess's phenomenally prolific life, Bradford's biography deftly makes Sillitoe's daily writing routine central, even in his introduction.
(f, veloce, ardente) The phobic pathetic bathetic
splenetic schizophrenic ape, The fanatical implacable hypocritical paranoidal homicidal ape, The everyone-else-is-wrong-and-only-I-am-right tormentor-of-others man-to-mud-reverted ape,
(1) This
splenetic book ranges much farther afield than that, however.
In later years, Stiller Sr enjoyed a grand Indian summer playing George Costanza's
splenetic, hair-trigger dad in 28 episodes of Seinfeld.
Several
splenetic Clinton tirades against journalists, or hecklers, are popular online, and prompted some to question if Clinton's skills are dated.
The Twickenham editors explain that "these metamorphoses represent illusions commonly suffered by the
splenetic" (4.47-54, note) and Pope included his own gloss of the talking goose-pye, claiming that it "alludes to a real fact, a Lady of distinction imagin'd herself in this condition" (4.52, note).
Fantagraphics's publisher, Gary Groth, who has a reputation for being the angriest man in comics with his hyperliterate,
splenetic rants about the sad state of publishing, seemed downright star-struck as he conducted an interview with the brothers.
The entry concludes by noting Kenneth Rogoff's '
splenetic attack' on Stiglitz, which makes some of the notorious HETSA exchanges appear like polite conversation.
In contrast to the genial J-A Brillat-Savarin, whose Physiologie du gout has never been out of print in France since its publication in 1826, the peremptory,
splenetic Grimod has had to wait for rehabilitation: Bonnet's edition of selected works in 1978, Rebecca Spang's The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard University Press, 2000), and an earlier article by Garval himself (to which should be added two important articles by Julia Abramson, "Grimod's Debt to Mercier and the Emergence of Gastronomic Writing Reconsidered," EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 200l, and "Legitimacy and Nationalism in the Almanach des Gourmands, 1803-12," Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2003).
With the mother indolent, the father
splenetic, and the infant emperor three-quarters German, the regime had little chance of succeeding and lasted a mere thirteen months, from October 1740 to November 1741.
Huysmans cannot over-belittle Adrien and Cyprien, for between them they caress many of his artistic preferences: for the depiction of
splenetic landscapes and rachitic humanity, and their very bourgeois bourgeoisophobia.
A striking example can be found in Scalia's
splenetic dissent in the 2005 case McCreary County v.
Alfred Prufrock," "Preludes" and The Waste Land, but each poem's
splenetic tone is French.
Applause and a standing ovation for Tony Kushner's anti-Bush article in your October 26 issue ["An Unmannerly Pre-Election Day
Splenetic"].
