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In Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," a crotchety and self-centered grandmother, held at gunpoint by an escaped convict in rural Georgia, becomes suddenly sensitive.
But others find the film "beautifully crafted, intricately designed" (Eric Harrison, the Los Angeles Times ) and credit Samuel L. Jackson's outstanding performance as a crotchety and morally ambiguous violin appraiser.
I am not some crotchety old fool.
And what could have possessed the movie-makers to cast the topmost of top bananas, Paul Newman, as Costner's dad--a crotchety, albeit caring, voice of wisdom?
H. L. Mencken, in one of his more crotchety moods, said this: The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.