Sublime

Though Nice Guys frequently deny ever getting angry, a lifetime of frustration and resentment creates a pressure cooker of repressed rage deep inside these men. This rage tends to erupt at some of the most unexpected and seemingly inappropriate times.

For George is an old gray cat who has accumulated a hatred of people and things so intense that even hidden upstairs he communicates his prayer that you will go away. If the bomb should fall and wipe out every living thing except Miss Brace, George would be happy. That’s the way he would design a world if it were up to him.

I could see Peter walking steadily up the hill from the house, the bald patch on his head glinting as he moved between patches of shadow and sun. With every step he planted his walking stick in the manner of someone who would not suffer fools gladly, as though he knew this was something people said about him and didn’t shrink from the aspersion. It

walked slowly in the same direction. He looked about forty, very dark with a melancholy clean-shaven face. Some violent emotion

Uncle Irritable.

Nice Guys tend to express their frustration and resentment in indirect, roundabout, and not so nice ways. This includes being unavailable, forgetting, being late, not following through, not being able to get an erection, climaxing too quickly, and repeating the same annoying behaviors even when they have promised to never do them again.