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" ... "I'll know when I see it" was "Jobs' credo," Gladwell says. He was a rude man, as everyone now knows well. But, "the great accomplishment of Jobs’s life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies—his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness—in the service of perfection." ... "
" ... But Obama hurt their feelings, and now those feelings must be expressed. A culture of aggrieved petulance pervades politics, and nowhere is it more intense than on Wall Street, where it is a kind of psychological buffer against the terrible responsibility the banks bear for their central role in the economic disaster that we're all still muddling through. So any slight must be taken literally. And politics is no longer mainly about defending interests (though, of course, it is still mostly about that); it's about payback and, ultimately, cheap emotional gratification. ... "
" ... Fred Carver, an advisor at the UN Association of the U.K. argues that: "The US wishes to block the appointment but cannot as such," he said, "They can prevent consensus from being achieved and so force the WTO to call a vote at its Nov 9th meeting, but if, as polls indicate, this administration has been voted out by then I imagine this will be seen as a last act of petulance by a lame duck administration, and not the crisis that a failure to reach consensus would otherwise be." ... "
" ... They did not, despite direct prodding. The Astros optioned Giles to Triple-A Fresno less than 24 hours following his second emotional outburst between the mound and dugout this season. Giles infamously punched himself in the face after being removed from a game in which he surrendered a three-run home run to Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez on May 1 (both outings, coincidentally, were non-save situations in scoreless starts by right-hander Justin Verlander). When pressed as to what role Giles’ petulance played in his demotion, Luhnow and Hinch stuck to a pre-established script on crisis management that would have served John Schnatter well. ... "
" ... When the voters did reject the E.U. Obama dug in further by promising to push Britain to the back. It reeked of petulance. ... "