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  • The facial features are unmistakable : almond-shape eyes, fleshy cheeks and sensuous, full lips, often drawn downward as if in a pettish scowl.
  • Sophie Gengembre Anderson's " It's My Turn to Play Mother " shows a pettish child understandably tired of playing housemaid while her sister lolls on the sofa with a doll, a teacup, and a bell to call the servants.
  • Even User : Bishzilla can count up to three . " I am sure that you can find an admin willing to do that ( just don't ask me to do it ) " as you say above, is childishly pettish, and also makes you look bad.
  • The pleasures are infrequent and incidental; a pettish, destructive movie star is brilliantly summed up in one sentence ( " Sean York had a knack, or even a genius, as compensation for his lack of talent, for reducing people to a kind of nightmare version of themselves . ")
  • Author Mark Vieira, a working portrait photographer himself, creates a fascinating portrait of Hurrell _ insecure, pettish, temperamental, very much an artist, struggling with competition from Clarence Sinclair Bull, the other photographic eminence on the MGM lot, as well as with interference from the corporate bureaucracy whose point man was the powerful publicity chief Howard Strickling, who had his own ideas about how stars should be presented.
  • In his Dedication to The Virtuoso, Shadwell claimed that he had created four entirely new humours characters, by which he meant the titular virtuoso Sir Nicholas Gimcrack, Sir Formal Trifle ( described in the cast list as  the Orator, a florid coxcomb ), Sir Samuel Hearty (  a brisk, amorous, adventurous, unfortunate coxcomb; one that by the help of humorous, nonsensical bywords takes himself to be a wit ), and Sir Nicholas s uncle Snarl (  an old, pettish fellow, a great admirer of the last age and a declaimer against the vices of this, and privately very vicious himself .  ) Though some critics believe that Sir Nicholas is an inconsistent character, of the four, his is the character with the most significant literary legacy.