And then, a few querulous sessions later, I began to feel some pride, and not simply in my improved performance.

NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

Mr Blunkett did not go out of his way to quell this suggestion by saying cheerfully to a conference of querulous teachers last weekend that he was, alas, taking his leave of them.

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Michael Portillo, though potentially formidable, returned to active politics after losing his seat in 1997 with the fire in his belly evidently extinguished, a fact confirmed by his strangely querulous bid for the leadership.

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