Ballow was a man of deep and extensive learning, but of vulgar manners, and, being of a splenetic temper, envied Akenside for the eloquence he displayed in his conversation.
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They include " Pictures of the Time, " a rarity of sorts : a splenetic, witty scrapbook of clippings from newspapers and magazines that Evans compiled with the writer James Agee.
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Yes, in some ways that approach is like blaming the loss of the Titanic on cabin stewards, and that is whom the great and good often choose as the objects of splenetic outbursts.
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And Sher, whose Macbeth later assumes a gangsterish menace that recalls Bob Hoskins at his most splenetic, may be a shade too bogus in his rhetorical lamentations after the body of Duncan is discovered.
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The descriptive passages mix whimsical, often Agathla, centuries aslumber, shivers in its sleep with splenetic splendor, and spreads abroad a seismic spasm with the supreme suavity of a vagabond volcano . " ).
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I apologize for this splenetic post, and there's no reason anyone should pay attention to me, but there you have it . talk ) 16 : 55, 31 August 2015 ( UTC)
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Since the release of his splenetic masterpiece " Naked " in 1993, Leigh has directed four features, the best being " Topsy-Turvy, " a spiky entertainment about the songwriting team Gilbert and Sullivan.
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His encouragement of fellow writers, his practical kindness and hospitality towards them, certainly bulked larger in my mind when I was writing it than the splenetic egocentricity that led him into all too well publicised excesses.
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In his preface to the printed edition of the play ( 1693 ) he makes a splenetic attack on William Congreve's " The Old Bachelor ", which had appeared during the same year.
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Hastings in 1994, however, thought it " by any criteria an extraordinary work ", and credited it with establishing Waugh's public image : " stout and splenetic, red-faced and reactionary ".
