Bogosian, best known for his funny, splenetic performance pieces, turns a confrontation between a couple ( Heather Robison and Daniel Pearce ) on the eve of their wedding into a robust comic look at the sexually divided self.
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The Mayor is splenetic as ever, and Greg's mood takes a turn for the worse when the entire Department of Audience save for one unspeakably ugly man in a vest refuses to go out with him.
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It is " a detailed narrative of the attempts . . . to make rules about how we speak and write " and " a historical guide to the sometimes splenetic battles that have been fought over English down the centuries ".
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Werther is also full of splenetic, murderous fury at human kind, and he has a secret involving a bad but commonplace habit that Ives discovers by accident when the two of them are camped in a humid jungle spot in Sumatra.
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Its plainly autobiographical content, Hastings suggests, gave the public a fixed image of Waugh : " stout, splenetic, red-faced and reactionary, a figure from burlesque complete with cigar, bowler hat and loud checked suit ."
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Seymour responded by saying that Kirchick's review " was the most deliciously splenetic fanboy tribute to unreasoning hysteria that it has ever been my pleasure to gloat about " in a piece for his blog that was subsequently reposted by Salon.
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A person who vented his spleen was said to be splenetic, which was something like going ballistic, e . g ., " Alan Dershowitz was positively splenetic when Dick Cavett criticized his syntax on the Larry King Show ."
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A person who vented his spleen was said to be splenetic, which was something like going ballistic, e . g ., " Alan Dershowitz was positively splenetic when Dick Cavett criticized his syntax on the Larry King Show ."
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As usual, Kirchner's conversation cast a wide net to catch personal reminiscence, philosophical reflection, uncompromising but not unfair views of the recent works of some of his younger contemporaries, and splenetic outrage at the state of the music business.
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Most of the action is concerned with domestic upsets or misunderstandings, which find humour in the opposing temperaments of Walter splenetic, rational, and somewhat sarcastic and Uncle Toby, who is gentle, uncomplicated, and a lover of his fellow man.
