Spall plays him brilliantly as a grumbling, grunting beast of a man whose sensitivity and kindness emerges slowly.
Now the grumbling is getting louder—and increasingly it focuses on the president himself.
Liberals have been grumbling for a while about the Obama administration.
Spitzer rolled his eyes at the interruption, grumbling a perfunctory “very funny.”
This came after months of grumbling about disappointing iPhone sales, and reports of a possibly too-small opening in China.
With all his grumbling, he had not contemplated Jenkins being away more than a day or two.
They went through the cloisters to the south gate, Ketch grumbling all the way.
The artistes gradually began to arrive, grumbling more or less.
If we have been grumbling in our hearts, it is to God we must confess: who else has to do with the matter?
So tall Clemence dressed herself again, grumbling the while.
1580s, from Middle French grommeler "mutter between the teeth" or directly from Middle Dutch grommelen "murmur, mutter, grunt," from grommen "to rumble, growl." Imitative, or perhaps akin to grim. Related: Grumbled; grumbling.
1620s, from grumble (v.).
