Those who made it through the second attack spent their days grumpily buzzing around, or huddled pathetically together.

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From the beginning, when Scottie grumpily tells Midge to turn off her eighteenth-century music, art fails to tame chaos.

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For the next 20 years Engels worked grumpily away, handing over half his generous income to an ever more demanding Marx.

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When you or a family member needs care, you grumpily wonder how much it's going to cost you before you surpass the deductible.

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Adam Lubroth, a contemporary American photographer, uses the technique to create brightly-coloured images of people sitting grumpily in their cars at red lights.

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What is nagging Europe's political leaders is not the text, which they grumpily signed up to last year, but the difficulty they are having getting it ratified.

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And for all their novelty and historical moment, it remains to be seen how many voters, grumpily indisposed to politicians in general, will be influenced by the contests.

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