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Republicans were sullenly falling into formation behind this pick, as evidenced by the suppression of the ethics report.

In the usual braying-and-pouting choreography of the State of the Union evening, members of the president’s party leap ecstatically when he praises himself, and members of the other party respond sullenly, by not responding.

I've been hurt by starters that would never become sufficiently foamy, by doughs that sullenly refused to rise, by boules that baked into oversized hockey pucks.

He lost that opportunity because he could not create the necessary heroic drama — the one in which he was not sullenly subverting the presidential election but selflessly upholding its real results.

"You are a class act," she sullenly admits to one such saint in an upcoming episode, "and that is not beneficial to me."