Yet in other moments he seems petulant, tentative and even frail.
You grow old if you are irritable, crotchety, petulant, and cantankerous.
Bryant is often portrayed as petulant, selfish, and at times overbearing in newspaper coverage and magazine profiles.
Francis never showed up in Vancouver, having been petulant and pouting enough for the Grizzlies to send him elsewhere.
Chinese officialdom and many ordinary citizens were furious: another petulant effort by Western foes to thwart China’s inexorable rise.
The point of this story is not that the directors of Sheffield Wednesday have behaved like a bunch of petulant bullies.