querulous
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Edward, a World War I veteran, is a querulous man who’s canceled all seasonal festivities at his home.
If so, why?—Evelyn’s narrative takes on a querulous, panicking tone.
Against a long and attenuated trill of the viola, Mehretu’s backgrounds become a lurid green or mysterious blue and the black lines of the paintings start to look more querulous.
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The British novelist Hilary Mantel, who died on Thursday at age 70, left a wide-ranging and hard-to-classify body of work that encompassed memoir, story collections, contemporary novels and brilliant, querulous literary essays.
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Snarky and sometimes rude, the verse drama tells of a querulous prince stepping anxiously into the spotlight.
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