Hargreaves towered throughout, gripping the audience from the outset: tetchy, moody, nervous, wheedling, sympathetic, insistent and bossy; but always engaging.
It has also been somewhat tetchy and bad-tempered in places.
Already in this country the cost of supporting dysfunctional families is reaching a level at which people are beginning to feel tetchy about it.
He will remember it very well, because he got a bit tetchy.
Much of that work will be complicated and very tetchy, as the earlier exchanges on sugar and other commodities have demonstrated.
As we may have to wait even until the summer, tempers may get a little tetchy, as last night's closing session proved.
It is getting late and no doubt that is why we are getting confused and at times tetchy.
I am sorry to sound rather tetchy, but this has been made to sound as though it is a very splendid amendment.