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We stepped off the jet yesterday to a cold snap, a surly stock market and kids who see Marji and me as waiters, dishwashers and ATM machines.
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The defense revealed inconsistencies in the testimony of the current accuser when he took the stand, and the teen's younger brother was a surly and unsympathetic witness.
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Legislation and the peace process have improved their lot, but left a residue of surly loyalist resentment.
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He took a wrong exit on a recent night and turned surly and anxious.
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Store clerks and restaurant staff can be surly and have the capacity for stunning rudeness should they decide a customer is behaving densely.
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They would be forgoing new carpeting, their clerks would be dressing shabbily and acting surly, and their vast capital expenditures would have them out on a limb.
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Surly immigration officials do little to enhance America's claim to be a welcoming country.
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Going to a movie theatre and buying food will no longer expose us to surly teenage employees.
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After a professor at the Institute (Stellan Skarsgard) discovers that the surly janitor he's argued with in the hallway is capable of off-handedly deciphering mathematical equations that leave his graduate students staring blankly at the chalkboard, Will is taken under the professor's wing.
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An "attitude" restaurant, with a claustrophobic town house setting, and service that is mostly condescending and surly.
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Throughout his career, the work of singer-songwriter Eric Bachmann hasn't exactly radiated warmth, whether he was unfurling surly screeds as lead singer of Archers of Loaf or re-creating himself as a crooning indie-rock Neil Diamond with Crooked Fingers.
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But now, with all the airport security, flight delays, baggage fees, and surly attitudes of airline employees, it has become the least favorite part of what I do for a living.
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