| 31. | With uncanny Quincy-Braintree accent and prominent pate, he exudes the fabled Adams integrity, charm, and crankiness.
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| 32. | This is a business that chews up the strongest of men, causing stomach miseries, heart problems and chronic crankiness.
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| 33. | We tolerate, even enjoy, such crankiness in great talents like Vladimir Nabokov, Evelyn Waugh, even Gore Vidal.
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| 34. | While Neumann tends to be viewed as a crank, crankiness itself is an honorable tradition in the annals of art collecting.
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| 35. | The only thing aunt and niece appear to have in common is their predisposition toward crankiness, which seems to be genetic.
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| 36. | His crankiness and impatience with anything commercial perhaps can be excused; Leigh takes quite seriously his obligations as filmmaker and artist.
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| 37. | The simple desire for relief from noise has in our society always been treated as something of a joke, akin to crankiness.
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| 38. | "And there's going to be a lot of irritability and crankiness as people withdraw from this trial ."
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| 39. | And after he floats over the competition and hauls in a substantial gain, all that crankiness moves aside, like plowed snow.
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| 40. | For someone who's made a fortune mining the comic potential of his own crankiness, Larry David is a surprisingly cordial sort.
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