11. Zell, 53, insisted in his gravelly growl, which enhances his reputation for irascibility . 12. Though his blindness and other traumas deepened his irascibility , Thurber apparently retained his comic equipoise. 13. Guitarist and singer Jackie Paris was a first-hand witness to Mingus's irascibility . 14. Dewar's irascibility was legendary. 15. Dabney Coleman has been allegedly leavened with a dash of humanity while not losing his trademark irascibility . 16. But there were a pair of incidents last season that hinted at Rocker's deep irascibility . 17. For all his fabled irascibility , of course, Davis was right about his own career accomplishments. 18. His superiors still considered him of middling ability, and the impression of melancholy and irascibility persisted. 19. Although intelligent and brave, his career was several times set back by his irascibility and vanity. 20. Beales looks at the emperor s personality, with its arbitrary behavior and mixture of affability and irascibility .