grouchily

He came up to me--he was a little disheveled and perspiring noticeably--he looked at me very grouchily, and said, "Duane, thank God we trained you to be a good lawyer, because you damn well never would have made a living as a cartographer!" And once again, he of course was right.

Now he has competition: two state legislators, a doctor, a lawyer who helped fight the tobacco suit, and, any day now, the fiscally (and somewhat grouchily) conservative former Representative Tim Penny.

And he grouchily claims that Curzon saw Africa as `populated by black barbarians'; yet in 1917 Curzon expressly opposed the settlement of former German East Africa with Indians on the grounds that the soil belonged to the native (i.e.

"The director grouchily plodded through the multipage script," Charlton says, "until - near the end of the history where I had proudly proclaimed that our company 'helps to meet man's basic needs around the world,' he suddenly convulsed.

She's a friendly interviewer, trying to draw out artists typically assumed to be grouchily reticent or cultural bureaucrats whose public pronouncements are usually made in press release-speak.