All 5 Uses of
sulk
in
Mrs. Warren's Profession
- When the intellectual muscle and moral nerve of the critics has been developed in the struggle with modern problem plays, the pettish luxuriousness of the clever ones, and the sulky sense of disadvantaged weakness in the sentimental ones, will clear away; and it will be seen that only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a…†
Act Auth
- [Crofts sulkily obeys].†
Act 1 *
- MRS WARREN [angry] I'll trouble you to mind your own business, and not try any of your sulks on me.†
Act 1
- [He thrusts his hands in his pockets, and begins prowling about the room, restless and sulky].†
Act 2
- MRS WARREN [sulkily] Oh well, yes, if you come to that, I suppose you are.†
Act 4
Definition:
-
(sulk) to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved