Word: stung
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...while loitering around a railroad station, he is adopted by two abandoned children. He snarls like a bee-stung samurai, he sulks like a spoiled geisha, but the kids tag along. And so Junpei has two kids, a sweetheart on the lam, and no yen except to do right by the youngsters and to get Komako (and his money) back...
...stung was Brizola that he demanded help from the judiciary, from Congress, from the armed forces, and pleaded with his brother-in-law Goulart to force Chateaubriand to give him equal space. He threatened to bring a slander suit against Nasser. But for the moment, at least, Brizola had to take his lumps...
...Bonn press predicted that De Gaulle would try to whip the Germans into line in case they had got too friendly toward the U.S. He was not as crude as that. But he had been stung by Kennedy's Frankfurt speech about Atlantic unity (although dismissing it as "salade, salade, salade"), and De Gaulle obviously wanted to find out in Bonn if the Germans had been sufficiently impressed by it to move away from the Franco-German alliance. Answer: the Germans were just about standing still. They chided De Gaulle and his top ministers for the announced withdrawal...
...question is, should a gentleman lick the wasp-stung buttock of a lady in distress? Please Don't Walk Around in the Nudel fails to provide an adequate answer, but it does pose the problem in a delightful fashion...
...other, and the very least they have to do (even if one completely discards the question of continuity with Richard II and Part Two) is to develop themselves on the stage to justify the descriptions. This Philip Kerr's Hotspur accomplishes splendidly. Begining as a simple hothead, "nettled, and stung with pismires when I hear/Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke," laughed at by his elders (Northumberland and Worcester), Kerr refines and solidifies Harry Percy into a striking gay fanatic, the man who mistakes...