As an elegiac portrait of a writer, widowed and lonely because his daughter has a testy husband, this is a gem.
You never go broke taking profits, and when things get a little more testy going to a tactical approach makes me most comfortable.
He became testy when a reporter pressed him on whether his initial pronouncements had been too hasty.
"I'm as frustrated with the situation as anybody else, " Petraeus continued in a testy exchange with Menendez.
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The one exception was a testy and bizarre exchange between the Microsoft chairman and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.
"Obviously, Victor's a big part of what we've been doing the past couple of years, " a testy Reese said.
Mr. Dodd, a testy, old-fashioned businessman, quizzed Joe on the reason for my visit and then turned to me.
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Mr Hagel, a former Republican senator who broke with his party over the Iraq war, endured a testy confirmation hearing last week.
This is a testy time in American life, with all kinds of candidates emerging to express discontent with the country's political class.
"There will be no sneaking around today, " said a testy Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
With Mr Ahmadinejad set for a testy relationship with the new parliament, Ayatollah Khamenei may find it even easier to bend policy to his will.
President Barack Obama, who campaigned amid tensions with Israel and a testy relationship with its prime minister, saw his vote among American Jews decline in his successful bid for re-election.
As The Economist went to press, a testy court battle in America between the firm and Samsung over various patents connected with smartphones and tablet computers was drawing to a close.
Then, during a testy press conference, he dodged questions about whether the photo was of him and why he hadn't asked law enforcement to investigate if his account had, indeed, been compromised.
The 27-year-old left-hander got a little testy after being asked about his velocity.
Churchill was of course in the midst of fighting a war against the Nazis, so people may have forgiven him for being a bit testy.
The results really caught my attention because the survey highlights the issues of fees at a time when clients are apt to be a little testy when their next statements come and their account valuations are down.
There's no denying that Gore, a onetime newspaper reporter who had testy relations with the press during his 2000 campaign, presided over a lousy cable channel.
Maybe you see where I'm going with this, but people in these hills sometimes get a little bit testy.
The media derision for the protesters, most of whom are Republicans, reached comic heights when a generic CNN anchorman became testy on the air because protesters were making too much noise.
This spring, he released two lengthy audio responses to nearly a hundred of the nine hundred often testy queries that were posed.
Given its testy relationship with the other Gulf states, Iran has a hard time persuading them to play ball over smuggling.
So for us, to continue to get better and for us to have a really physical game, good game, testy game, we liked it.
Nooyi had to cut the 2011 earnings forecast from double-digit growth to seven or eight per cent, and when she was asked about this in a conference call with investment analysts, in February, she sounded testy in her replies.
Secretary Rice had another testy exchange with California Democrat Barbara Boxer, who accused the Bush administration of having a tin ear.
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