Front-de-B uf would have replied, but Prince John's
petulance and levity got the start.
The very anger in her voice was silvery, as it were, and more like the
petulance of a seventeen- year-old beauty.
With the unreasonable
petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.
And then she would pout like a disappointed child; a pensive cloud would soften her radiant vivacity; she would withdraw her hand hastily from his, and turn in transient
petulance from his aspect, at once so heroic and so martyr-like.
She derived, however, great consolation, (during the tightening of the bowstring,) from the reflection that much of the history remained still untold, and that the
petulance of her brute of a husband had reaped for him a most righteous reward, in depriving him of many inconceivable adventures.
Thank heaven that there were two sane men--Lord John Roxton and myself--to prevent the
petulance and folly of our learned Professors from sending us back empty-handed to London.
No more of the girlish alternations of timidity and
petulance, the adorable naivete, the reveries, the tears, the playfulness...
Will spoke at random: he was merely venting his
petulance; it was a little too exasperating to have his grandmother's portrait offered him at that moment.
She felt so now about herself; and when her first
petulance was over, resolved to give up coasting and everything else, rather than have any nonsense with Tom, who, thanks to his neglected education, was as ignorant as herself of the charms of this new amusement for school-children.
To make matters worse, Albion substitute Hal Robson-Kanu was sent off in the closing stages for a mindless act of
petulance that will rule him out of the playoffs.
Rather than
petulance, this sounds like a condition called "school refusal" - and must be treated seriously and with respect.
But with players like that, managers are better off saying, 'Just go and do your stuff and I'll accept I'm going to lose you for five or six games a season through
petulance'.
Normally supportive of secessionist movements, he dismisses such current activity in Trump-era California as motivated by "
petulance."
I urge SISU to put its
petulance to one side and accept that Coventry Telegraph journalists are welcome to deal responsibly with the club and its fans."
The preening Real Madrid footballer has long been renowned for his
petulance and brittleness but he appears to have excelled himself by throwing a reporter's microphone in a lake.