- A pet peeve, pet aversion, or pet hate is a
minor annoyance that an
individual finds particularly irritating to a
greater degree than the norm. The noun...
- 8, 2013. O'Connor, John J. (May 4, 1996). "After 5
Years of
Family Fractiousness, 'Sisters'
Exits Elegantly". The New York Times.
Retrieved June 8, 2013...
- of the
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, Lord
Deputy of Ireland,
fractious Irish politics combined with a more
ambitious Henry to
cause trouble....
- each other. The
correspondence ultimately proves a
metaphor for the
fractiousness and
contention between Israeli Jews of
different political and religious...
-
decisions in
favour of the former, but
without settling the controversy. His
fractious temper coloured all the
controversies in
which he took part, in Gaul,...
- years.
According to
Sheila Weller, "[Simpson and Brown] were a dramatic,
fractious,
mutually obsessed couple before they married,
after they married, after...
- coal miners,
which brought the
strike to an end
without violence. The
fractious relationship ended in
March 1890,
after Wilhelm II and
Bismarck quarrelled...
-
foreign ministers. The 2018
meeting in Charlevoix, Canada, was
marred by
fractious negotiations concerning tariffs and
Donald Trump's
position that Russia...
- "His
speaking voice, a
gruff husky tenor,
added to the
impression of
fractiousness he conve****.
There was a
touch of
paternal contempt in it, even toward...
- makeup,
although I'd have done it for Franco."
Father and
daughter had a
fractious relationship on set, with the
young Anjelica having difficulty learning...
