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By the 19th century, a new and pejorative meaning arose, "one inclined to uncivil or loutish behaviour"—hence "churlish" (cf. the pejorative sense of the term boor, whose original meaning of "country person" or "farmer" is preserved in Dutch and Afrikaans boer and German Bauer, although the latter has its own pejorative connotations such as ...
Texasville is a 1990 American drama film written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich.Based on the 1987 novel Texasville by Larry McMurtry, it is a sequel to The Last Picture Show (1971), and features Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Timothy Bottoms, Randy Quaid, and Eileen Brennan reprising their roles from the original film.
Bodach s are seen at the beginning of Moonshine by Rob Thurman.; Bodach s occasionally appear in Charles de Lint's books of mythic fiction.; The term Bodach is used to describe shadow-like or "ink like" creatures—invisible to most people—that appear at locations before disasters in the books Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, and ...
Churlish though this will sound, my heart sank a little. Last year, I almost made the decision to stop sending cards at Christmas. There was the faint environmental guilt, the outrage over the ...
Letters to the Editor: If Mr. Thayer dislikes the Governor so much because he feels the legislature didn’t get enough praise, a simple “Congratulations” would have been adequate, appropriate ...
Only fans turned on him in his disheveled outfit, angry over another lost Eagles season, and cold, tired and feeling a bit churlish, they chucked snowballs at the woeful Santa impostor.
In September 2014, Key and Peele revealed that they were negotiating with Paramount Pictures to develop a movie around "Substitute Teacher". [14] In November 2015, Deadline Hollywood reported that 21 Laps Entertainment would produce the film and that it would be written by Key & Peele executive producers Rich Talarico and Alex Rubens.
The New York newspaper Long Island Telegraph reported on 20 May 1830 "when two churlish boys were determined to fight, a chip [of wood] would be placed on the shoulder of one, and the other demanded to knock it off at his peril".