The sidemen in question are guitarist Paul Bollenback, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Jimmy ... Leave it to the irascibly spirited and octane-charged Veronica Swift to release the party record of ...

Judge Robert Nugent was heard to exclaim irascibly [ii]: “Well, what is this book, for heaven’s sake? Is it [Tolstoy’s] War and Peace?” It wasn’t; and nor is Our Poisoned Land much like War and Peace.

For, as a dear friend remarked telephonically and irascibly to me this morning, ‘the country is, without a doubt, well and truly f----d’. Sometimes I feel guilty that my gorgeous wife (who did most of ...