Artistic temperament?

It's a matter of temperament.

Singular. A woman of your temperament.

Your volcanic temperament makes me nervous.

Those gestures, that nobility, that temperament!

Surely man is created of a hasty temperament

Surely man is created of a hasty temperament

Now the most fearable affair, it is my father's temperament

It's a clash of temperament that's going on in there.

As I was saying, she has a very fiery temperament.

The person in question has a very passionate and jealous temperament.

So, you see, when I tell you... that I understand the artistic temperament...

An occupation for which many people feel I'm well qualified by temperament and training.

Besides a temperament, which consists mostly of swooping about on a broomstick and screaming at the top of my voice.

Cornelius Osgood, an American anthropologist, attributed Korean extremism to the peninsula s weather. He observed that the Korean temperament is a product of long, harsh Siberian winters and hot, humid summers, with only short springs and autumns.

For me, the choice is simple and not only because I am, by temperament and history, a Democrat. The long and intense political campaign has revealed huge differences in the two candidates positions, style, and personal qualities.

To be sure, the colonizers amassed huge fortunes, thanks to the toil of those peoples, but they could not prevent the slaves from passing on their languages to us, along with their religious beliefs, their music and their temperament.

It is no coincidence, for example, that the law treats corporations as persons. We think of the organization in which we work as if it was a person with rights, obligations, values, reputation, and temperament, on whose behalf managers regard themselves as acting.

As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reputedly quipped after meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt Second class intellect, but first class temperament. Most historians would agree that Roosevelt s success as a leader rested more on his good nature than on his analytical skills.

Neo conservatism thus cannot be reduced to advocacy of the free market or right wing populism, since its ideological specificity consists in the fusion of these contradictory outlooks. The question was how to package elites interest in free market capitalism with the provincial temperament of a parochial constituency.

No president in recent decades has had a better temperament and a clearer vision for facing the world s challenges than the one that Americans have just reelected. Obama now has an opportunity to put that talent to work in ways that he could not in his first term.

I do not mean the slick books and television advertisements that are produced for their campaigns. While image consultants and acting ability can mask a candidate s character, an integrated life over time is the best basis to judge the authenticity of the next president s temperament and how he will govern.

The Shia are the majority in Iraq, and the Sunnis need to become reconciled with that fact. There is certainly good reason to be concerned about Maliki s temperament, his small group of advisers, his tendency to exercise personal control in the use of state power, and his reputation, partly merited, of making empty promises.

Because Spain and France defaulted so much in the early modern period, and because Greece, from the moment of its political birth in 1830, was a chronic or serial defaulter, some assume that national temperament somehow imbues countries with a proclivity to default. But that search for long historical continuity is facile, for it misses one of the key determinants of debt sustainability the identity of the state s creditor.