prima-donnas

All of the classic hallmarks are there: the similar glisten of newly-polished trophies, the glimmer of a Champions League final on the horizon, grossly over-paid prima-donnas complaining of 'tiredness', and a fans cold realization that there are a dark few months ahead.

Dan Bigmore: The State of the Game Dan Bigmore 2011

Playgrounds, as we all remember, are ruled by bullies, loud-mouths and prima-donnas.

Book Reviewing 2010

All of the classic hallmarks are there: the similar glisten of newly-polished trophies, the glimmer of a Champions League final on the horizon, grossly over-paid prima-donnas complaining of 'tiredness', and a fans cold realization that there are a dark few months ahead.

Dan Bigmore: The State of the Game Dan Bigmore 2011

These organizations seem to have solved the problem of managing the work of intellectuals, idealists, excentrics, prima-donnas and other self-motivated neurotic but otherwise talented people.

Academic Self-selection, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Frankly, the construction industry as a whole has been pretty sloppy and disorganized in almost everything it has done, probably due mostly to the temperamental, proprietary nature of its designers and architects, mostly a herd of prima-donnas and joiners.

Barak Obama should do this immediately 2008

She also knew the actresses, her rivals, and all the prima-donnas; in short, that whole exceptional feminine society, so kindly, so graceful in its easy “sans-souci,” which absorbs into its own Bohemian life all who allow themselves to be caught in the frantic whirl of its gay spirits, its eager abandonment, and its contemptuous indifference to the future.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

"Cultivate your voice, and your fingers too; for the positions as prima-donnas are sometimes lacking, then you have a little class to fall back on."

Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

"Yes, a queen, and a great queen of song;" and being inspired with great admiration for our own Australian cantatrice, who was great among the greatest prima-donnas of the world, I began to tell them a little of her fame, and that she had been recently offered 40,000 pounds to sing for three months in America.

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

I have come from a modern country, where we have everything that money can buy; and with all our spry young fellows painting the Old World red, and carrying off your best actors and prima-donnas, I reckon that if there were such a thing as a ghost in

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

The boys are concluding that it's cheaper to buy a piano-player than to marry one, that canned prima-donnas are better than the home-grown article, that women are more to be desired than playthings.

Keeping up with Lizzie Irving Bacheller 1904