Carping

But much of the carping feels driven by either utopianism or boredom.

Small boats may be thwarted — and Labour doesn’t have a convincing alternative policy, despite its carping.

Pelosi has faced carping from some Democrats for playing hardball at the risk of going home empty-handed, but that criticism has been largely muted since McConnell keeps stiff-arming the negotiations.

You wouldn’t know it, given all the carping and hostility from the left, but the Trump administration has put forward a very positive solution that answers the policy problems associated with employer-provided health coverage.

Hence, the nutting nawabs of negativism (with due apologies to William Safire) should stop carping about Modi’s victories not being a reflection of liberal (in the true sense of the word) democratic forces.

He should ignore the carping.

But a lot of the carping was needlessly personal.

Dynasty, then, is the great leveller — as it is in Tamil Nadu or states on the other side of the Vindhyas, never mind the carping over the differences between southern and northern states.

His intense training methods angered senior players and he alienated the board with a disparaging treatment of Spanish striker Diego Costa and constant carping over the club’s failure to replace top players with those of similar ability.