America is perfectly set up for extroverts, which is one reason the introverted intellectual class feels alienated and grouchy.

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Hard-pressed workers are feeling grouchy: workforce surveys report record levels of job dissatisfaction.

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All of which is to lead up to this: it does not pay to make customers grouchy about their precious devices.

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They are a grizzled, grouchy team, full of Tommy Jones characters.

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Yet despite that incredibly grouchy disposition, LA charmed me.

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Next door to the family lives a grouchy old woman (Ann Guilbert) who is visited by her two granddaughters a virtuous wallflower (Rebecca Hall) and a selfish, hard-nosed cosmetician (Amanda Peet).

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Add to this the fact that he did not exactly come to office overburdened with knowledge of foreign affairs and you can see why he sometimes looks a little grouchy.

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John McCain is running a grouchy and incoherent campaign.

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With a free-for-all political scene, pitting the boy-dictator-wannabe, buttressed by his ambitious aunt and often antagonistic uncle, against a grouchy and arrogant military establishment, it could well be that the agreement was scuttled as part of an ongoing battle to settle personal rivalries.

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And makes many scientists grouchy.

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