Ejemplos de uso de PEEVES
1. Today, the president has a monopoly on power –– so much so that his whims, peeves and dislikes instantly become national policy.
2. Clinton‘s peeves were different from Bush‘s, and a quarter of his uses of the "unacceptable" label after 2004 were aimed at providing leverage in his budget battles with the Republican–led Congress.
3. The show and its depictions of torture are particular peeves of civil libertarians (and a general and some military interrogators who complained to the show‘s creators about it, the New Yorker wrote in February). Lisa Graves, deputy director of the nonprofit Center for National Security Studies, says there‘s something pernicious about the show‘s premise.