There is a tendency to throw temperamental fits and tantrums, which are often directed at close associates and loved ones. |
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Somehow the cameraman failed to achieve this, prompting an outburst from the temperamental artist. |
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I am quite temperamental and if I think I've been treated unfairly it can cook up and then I boil over. |
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She may be dizzy, forgetful, disorganised and temperamental but she has always been reasonably candid about herself and her game plan. |
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Prior to World War II, the sash was counterweighted by a temperamental arrangement of cords, pulleys and iron weights. |
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But others appear to find the low-lying land that borders the temperamental waters of the River Ouse a perfect des res. |
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Two temperamental artists wielding brushes and curling irons battled for elbow room. |
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He might be a volatile, temperamental person but, she did not think that he was actually dangerous. |
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I am a temperamental person myself, so I probably would've lashed out myself. |
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Both men were temperamental and subject to long periods of brooding followed by explosive outbursts of anger. |
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Tina bit her lip, wondering what kind of a mood her temperamental friend was in. |
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He started to find that he was increasingly temperamental around Alexandra. |
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Alone in my room, I collapsed on my bed like a temperamental teenager and proceeded to drench my pillow with tears. |
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He was sometimes a gruff and temperamental man, but his sense of humour came through in so many of his finest songs. |
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After saying that she realized it probably wasn't the best thing she could say to a temperamental customer. |
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Her character is a fiery, temperamental woman who likes to get her own way. |
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It made no allowances for cultural, regional, political or temperamental differences. |
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And these religious temperamental differences of course, they're very much prominent in their literary output and their way of life. |
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The final remedy given is usually that which matches the child's physical and temperamental constitution at birth. |
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The Helio's engines proved temperamental, frequently developing vapor locks on starting. |
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We can also expect fireworks from such a temperamental lot, most notably the manager. |
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During a competition the fencers get nervous, edgy and temperamental under the pressure involved. |
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The grenade may also have gone off prematurely as fuses were temperamental and several grenadiers in that era lost hands because of this. |
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The writers and intellectuals in the Congress for Cultural Freedom were, like writers everywhere, temperamental and quarrelsome. |
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A temperamental Plexiglas piece by Argentine Martha Boto was still being tinkered into operation on the day of the opening. |
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It was unfortunate that the Bulgarian summer this year was temperamental at best, and downright terrible at worst. |
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But I do find the above poem to be quite appropriate, being a bit of a theatre luvvie, temperamental writer and general drama queen myself. |
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No matter how hard we try, we can't have power over a mercurial economy, back-stabbing co-workers or temperamental managers. |
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Empirical studies have shown that different temperamental characteristics of the child elicit different parenting practices. |
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He was a bear to get along with sometimes, and temperamental as the very devil, but underneath it all he was really a good man and a great man. |
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His confidence drained away and he became more temperamental and increasingly isolated. |
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When he displays his handiness with a temperamental car, he is offered a job on the spot. |
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Some facility executives still believe that occupancy sensors are the temperamental beasts of yesteryear. |
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As a politician, Lincoln was ruthless and calculating, temperamental and strong-willed. |
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Some deep psychological compensation for my ineradicable temperamental wimpiness is at work. |
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There, Armstrong became famous for flying the dangerous and temperamental X-15 rocket plane. |
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Though well meaning, King was temperamental and sometimes ill, a martinet sea dog who did not easily translate to ruling a fractious young colony. |
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In fact, they are frequently over-bred, resulting in a congenitally temperamental animal or one that has physical defects that keep it in pain. |
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It involved pleasing a lot of temperamental deities who would not deliver on their bargains if they happened to be in a bad mood. |
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It covers a whole range of physical, emotional, temperamental and volitional behavior. |
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Despite the geographic and temperamental distance between them, this congruity is more than coincidence. |
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He is a very temperamental player, maybe too much sometimes. |
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My mother always told me I was too temperamental for my own good. |
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If temperamental young starlets like Rooney or Ronaldo had behaved in this fashion, we may have been able to put it down to inexperience and youthful mischief. |
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Some that have met him have found him temperamental and surly. |
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In the flesh, he was temperamental, and on the stage, wildly dramatic. |
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In addition to his temperamental aversion to populism, Roosevelt also had a practical reason to be cautious. |
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If a writer is by definition a temperamental soul, than a Russian writer represents perhaps a most temperamental soul. |
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The main mechanism for the creation of Sauternes wine is a virulent but very temperamental fungus called botrytis cinerea, or botrytis to its friends. |
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This friend is rather temperamental and I don't know how they'll react. |
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Both a rocket engine with a temperamental record and an airframe of revolutionary design and construction had to be proved safe. |
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No area of disagreement between Jung and Freud reflected more clearly the temperamental differences between them than their respective attitude to symbols. |
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For all their brute strength, tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles can be temperamental beasts, requiring frequent attention to get the best out of them. |
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No one really minded if the cook was temperamental as long as he was good, since his cooking could make or break a camp. |
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They enter a phase of development known as neophobia, in which they reject new foods and become temperamental. |
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When I was very young and temperamental there was only one thing giving me pleasure: to invent, to create and to produce something. |
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With lots of traction, the Fusion Sport is one of the most logical choices for our temperamental winters. |
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Or the Imparja Camel Cup in July, where riders race temperamental camels around the dusty outback tracks. |
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He was temperamental, a kind of simple man, withdrawn, a loner. |
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Hungarian Hounds are courageous, tenacious dogs that are calm and well balance at heart, although they are also firm and temperamental. |
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They are independent and sometimes temperamental, but nevertheless very good family dogs. |
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So forget the scary stories about temperamental, delicate plants. |
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What may be perceived as a temperamental rejection of care or a psychologically based denial of illness may be a biologically based element of the illness itself. |
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It is a fly-in community with no access by road and only ice roads which are temperamental at best. |
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High activity and low sociability are less accepted in girls than in boys, and this may explain why temperamental difficultness predicted low self-esteem among girls only. |
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Donkeys, mules, oxen, and water buffalo carry loads, as do the offspring of the temperamental yaks, which are kept only to crossbreed with cattle. |
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However, alstroemerias are temperamental, sometimes not growing at all in the first year after planting. |
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On the other hand, the eight hypergeusic children were described as temperamental during meals and difficult in their food choices. |
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In his temperamental war with emotion, reason lost. |
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General Manager Danny Ainge did his best to assure Rondo, who has a reputation for being temperamental, that he was not shopping him, and that even being mentioned in a trade for Paul was a huge compliment. |
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He was temperamental, and this, along with his height, made him an intimidating man, and he often instilled fear in his contemporaries. |
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As babies mature, they learn to express feelings in words without having temperamental outbursts and begin to accept the limits parents set for their well-being. |
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To bring about unity and harmony in one's personality, certain obstacles of a temperamental, intellectual or emotional nature must first of all be overcome, and an ordered life style established. |
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They do not, on the other hand, tolerate in themselves such traits as grouchiness, impatience, temperamental outbursts, prima donna attitudes, arrogance, favouritism, or inconsistency. |
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But even when temperamental geniuses brim with belief and continue to deliver the goods for their team on a regular basis, it is really only the start. |
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Despite being issued with temperamental Ross rifles early in the First World War, Canadian troops often threw them away in favour of reliable Lee-Enfields picked up on the battlefield. |
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Very temperamental, yet gentle and affectionate. |
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As anyone who has used the self-serve checkout in a grocery store has learned, these printed tags are easy to copy, tricky to scan, and downright temperamental or ineffective if they fade or tear. |
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Bristol Street Motors, Rio branchDelayed commentary, fuzzy pictures and temperamental coverage were not the only subjects grousing viewers during the match. |
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Ziegen Zicke seems to be temperamental and hardheaded. |
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Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, Seamus Heaney spoke of his temperamental disposition towards an art that was devoted to things as they are. |
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Their friendship is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German. |
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