The interview shows Jobs as alternately witty, charming, cranky and bitter toward those he believed crossed him.
Yellow-jackets hung around, cranky and unpredictable, and we walked on the other side.
The restaurant layer proved very helpful when my daughter started getting cranky and we needed to make an unplanned stop.
Did Steinbrenner Jr. put you up to this, he has been known to be bitterly cranky and vindictive despite his young age?
Much of her recent work at Stanford University has debunked stereotypes about how older people are uniformly slow, cranky and mentally impaired.
The recent election strengthened the hand of those who want to extend all the tax rates at current levels, but the lame duck Congress may be a little cranky and not in an accommodating mood.
"Golden Gate's toll-takers deal with people of all walks of life, new drivers and older motorists, wealthy and broke, friendly and cranky, and rushed and leisurely, " said the local news website Marin Independent Journal in an editorial.
Thanks to his cranky moments and his rumpled suits, Bradley seems unteachable in the tricks of the imagemeisters.
But pilots can be a cranky bunch and are fiercely protective of their own -- and with good reason.
As the fiscally hawkish Republican governor of a Democratic state, Mr Christie has taken on a notoriously cranky legislature and has stared down the powerful teachers' union.
He gets his cranky sister and a group of embarrassed neighbors to take part in the charade, going so far as to work with a filmmaker buddy on fake news broadcasts about the unending triumphs of a regime that no longer exists.
Instead of being morose and cranky, maybe I should try being a little more open minded and more willing to explore new aspects of tech.
Don't phone after hours, when most hardworking bosses are tired and cranky.
Don't phone after hours, when most execs are tired and cranky.
It will be a defining race for a horse who appeared "tired and cranky" in her most recent win at the Diamond Jubilee Stakes in June.
At 29, Roddick has settled into the role of the cranky vet, and before 18, 000 at the Garden he played the clown, chucking his racket in playful frustration (though at one point almost accidentally hitting a ball girl) and briefly mimicking Nadal by pulling up his sleeves, exposing his biceps and imitating the Spanish champion's loopy topspin strokes.
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Drawing on the meditative traditions of Buddhism and Taoism, combined with deep-breathing and martial-arts exercises, it may seem somewhat cranky to non-adherents, and no doubt it has attracted its share of charlatans and crooks.
They bicker and whine, cranky old men.
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He was cranky man who smoked a pipe and kept slapping an L-shaped pica ruler into his palm.
The university's excellence in this field is, in typically British haphazard fashion, more the product of cranky enthusiasm than of a planned and focused strategy.
The New Yorker hated it at first and the magazine's cranky editor, Harold Ross, provided ample space for Lewis Mumford, E.
Airline employees and flight attendants could do without the cranky travelers who refuse to wait patiently, turn off cell phones or stay in their seats.
Cold weather is harder on the bus, and hard on the passengers -- everybody's cranky when it's cold.
But are there cranky little people who think the rover's camera is weak and has poor battery life, and "could have done it better" in their basements?
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Its beach is lovely, and the neighbouring Sesachacha Pond offers an alternative to chilly ocean temperatures, but the hot journey and lack of lunch options made the children overheated, cranky messes.
The newer and bigger store at the Time Warner Center has two line directors and 32 registers, still not enough to placate one cranky shopper from venting to the store manager on a recent Tuesday.
Lawyer friends tell me that the plain tiffs who bring test cases, the suits that change laws overturning discriminatory statutes, for instance are often cranky, obsessional people (not debonair dinner guests at all), and the same is often true of whistle-blowers, who try, sometimes without success, to alert the world to grand-scale larcenous behavior.
It is four minutes till midnight on a cool evening on Star Island off Miami, and outside a mansion-turned-nightclub the press pit is getting cranky.
Or look at Phoenix, lifting his head high and proud, as Brando used to do, with an added, cranky stiffness that comes from having, or being, a serious pain in the neck.
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