orneriness

Underneath Bill’s orneriness and Tina’s neuroses, one glimpses two aging actors confronting their own mortality with touching candor.

“He got his art from his mom, and he got his orneriness from me.”

There was a hungry old wolf after Violet but thanks to her orneriness and my dead aim, I still have fresh milk every morning.

“And if I were a betting person, which naturally I kind of am, I would bet on American orneriness and refusal to line up,” she added.

It seemed to me that it was also motivated by something unambiguously Texan, a romantic spirit at the heart of the state that mandates fearlessness, orneriness, liberty.