(1) His nameless sorrows ensure that he stands aloof, his distance from the other characters endowing him with a wisdom absent in the quarrelsome officers and journalists.(2) By now his hostile rhetoric has carried him beyond the self-discipline of consistency, and he becomes merely quarrelsome and captious.(3) One of the disqualifications for leadership in a church, and it should similarly be a disqualification from an office of public trust, is someone who is quarrelsome or overbearing.(4) Disillusioned by both Stalinism and the conformity of cold war America, he and his wife, Mickey, questioned whether an effective left could be built at all from its quarrelsome subculture of factions.(5) Luther adds the final piece to the happy ending, giving the cruise tickets away to his formerly quarrelsome neighbors (the wife has cancer and the husband has been demoted).(6) Though Cook was a seasoned campaigner known for beating the odds, he could not overcome a severe loss in public confidence at the end of a quarrelsome and often hostile primary campaign.(7) He turned into a Dublin ‘character’: a querulous, quarrelsome countryman with a sharp tongue and an axe to grind.(8) That said, a Japanese beer company seems to have come up with an excellent way to handle noisy, quarrelsome children: give them a drink.(9) According to the British District Gazetteer for 1904, ‘with some exceptions these priests are ignorant and quarrelsome , and are by no means popular in the neighbourhood.’(10) So if you see history as politics viewed from afar, you begin to understand that history is a controversial, argumentative and quarrelsome subject - much the same as politics.(11) The Crusades did manage to reduce the number of quarrelsome and contentious knights in Europe.(12) Whenever he took cocaine, he became violent and quarrelsome .(13) The writers and intellectuals in the Congress for Cultural Freedom were, like writers everywhere, temperamental and quarrelsome .(14) Then, too, Michelangelo had a quarrelsome disposition, and he was harsh in his criticism of others.(15) René Descartes has always been one of the more appealing philosophers, not least because he was so human, quarrelsome and frequently bone idle.(16) The intelligence offices decided that the Scouts were quarrelsome and difficult to manage and so substituted girls for boys.
