Petulant

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–adjective 

moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, 

esp. 

over some trifling annoyance: a petulant [toss] of the [head].  



—Synonyms 

irritable, peevish (乖戾的), fretful, pettish, touchy.





　

As Jack's waning heart beats out the last faint pulses of a lost cause, writer-director Miller delivers a frankly unnecessary critical autopsy of failed nature-child ideals (I know environmentalism is dead, I heard it on NPR a few weeks ago). 



Rose's petulant theatrics don't bespeak the [perils] of boundary-free parenting so much as a mental disorder, 

or 

a coarse [screenplay]. 



One of Kathleen's sons explains all: "Innocent people are just, uh, dangerous, I guess." But not too dangerous: This Ballad [strikes] a final note of prosaic humility, even if Miller all along has been promising The Wreck of the Hesperus with a Dylan score. 



bespeak

–verb (used with object)

1. to ask for in advance: to bespeak the reader's [patience].  

2. to reserve beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for: to bespeak a [seat] in a theater. 

3. Literary. to speak to; address.

4. to show; indicate: This bespeaks a [kindly heart]. 

5. Obsolete. to foretell; forebode.





pert  

brash insolent indolent 

curt laconic

terse

terse (polish, brusqueness) 

succinct (originally)

shoddy

intentionally rude or inconsiderate

a shoddy [bookcases] [behavior]

petulant

showing sudden, impatient irritation, over some trifling annoyance

a petulant [toss] of the [head].  

Rose's petulant [theatrics] don't [bespeak] the perils of boundary-free parenting so much as a mental disorder, or a coarse screenplay. 

Tony



ulterior (consealed, future) 

prescient 

augur prognosticate harbinger /jer/

Threnody