• He suggested his wife had probably gone off in a temper.

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  • And that is odd, because when it comes to enlargement in general, older members of the club are in a foul temper.

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  • He was in a violent temper.

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  • Other women have been more confrontational in the face of obstacles: One entrepreneur, who had started a business in 1990, lost her temper when confronted with a "No Women Allowed" sign in a government department, and ripped the sign off the door.

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  • At Wimbledon in June her image suffered a further blow when she lost her temper in an interview with a BBC reporter who suggested she needed to refocus on her game.

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  • He denied shaking her in a fit of temper, claiming she fell off a stool she was standing on.

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  • In a spasm of temper Yvonne swung around and opened her hand, flinging away into the river something tiny that gave out one glint of light before it was swallowed without a splash, the water healing instantly behind it.

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  • He's a womanizer, sports a hair-trigger temper in matters that even vaguely concern the church, and generally has quite a bit of trouble maintaining his focus on good works.

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  • Back then, the dramatically low federal funds rate was enough to spur a wave of borrowing by companies and individuals, so much so that a series of 17 rate increases followed from June 2004 to June 2006 as the Fed tried to temper inflation in a boom period.

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  • The main problem is not lingering Marxist habits of thought: a taste for all-in-one explanation, a romantic refusal to temper the desirable with the achievable, a stoical faith that the historical agent of radical change may yet appear, though none is now visible.

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  • On the face of it, Melville's life was marked by failure: failure to make money, to obtain appointments, to achieve critical recognition, and in the final 19 years as a clerk in the Boston Custom House, failure of temper enough to drive his wife to the brink of divorce.

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  • It has been a long time since Republicans showed a fighting temper of this kind, unyielding in its contempt for what the choice of a Hagel represents about core values like the national defense, our stance regarding the most dangerous of our enemies in the world.

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  • He was heavily into drug use, sometimes had a violent temper and committed burglary and eventually spent three months in a court-ordered detention and rehabilitation facility in Waco, Texas, said Denise Martin, Rawls' mother.

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  • Nor did it concern ways to deal with a widely predicted collapse of North Korea, handle ties with post-1997 Hong Kong, ease military repression in Myanmar or temper fears among Asian trade partners about a U.S. penchant for unilateral action in commercial affairs.

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  • The Wizard of Westwood is candid about his own shortcomings, one of which was a fist-fighting temper in his early days.

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  • In a future case, we ought to temper our Commerce Clause jurisprudence.

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  • Scientists have looked at anger and violence, though, and discovered genetic variations, expressed as concentrations of a particular messenger molecule in the brain, that are both congenital and predisposing to a violent temper.

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  • But new research is showing that immunotherapy, a method of giving a small dose of peanut to a patient in a controlled setting and then increasing the amount over a few months, may help temper these reactions.

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  • You have done a nice job of describing how one type of manic episode looks, but in suggesting that what you see might be a temper tantrum you have also identified the challenge that faces us every time we try to give a name to psychiatric troubles.

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  • With her bulbous brow, she is properly tuned in to the temper of the original a frighteningly mad tyrant, convinced that she alone is sane.

    NEWYORKER: Alice in Wonderland

  • Louis plays a lo-fi version of himself, spending his days drifting through New York, brooding, bingeing on ice cream, slumping in wintry playgrounds, like Charlie Brown with a buried temper.

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  • From the Republicans' viewpoint a spell in opposition could be useful: it would give them a chance to cleanse their Augean stables, temper their fealty to the religious right and get rid of the nonsense of big-government conservatism.

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  • Berman is an intense, square-jawed man in his fifties, with a scarred body and a quick temper.

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  • He sauntered around the campaign office in his Texas boots, cracking jokes in his tequila-sharp twang and earning a reputation for temper.

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  • Losing my temper I quickly realised some people were in a worse situation, the lady before me was from Newcastle Australia and her house had burned down the previous day, she was crying.

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  • For all the talk of his supposed temper and indiscipline, his last red card in a United shirt came almost four years ago.

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  • Such behavior by politicians and such a public mood stand in stark contrast to Russia's temper earlier in this decade, when the first postcommunist government, headed by the same Mr. Yeltsin, vowed to pursue cooperation with the West and made good on this pledge by adopting political and economic reforms designed to transform Russia into a Western country.

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  • But in the meantime the spirit of new beginnings is a hard one to temper.

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  • Knight, of course, had a very visible flaw, an epic temper that erupted in menacing displays and confrontations.

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  • But who will dare offer guidance to a man with such a sharp tongue, fiery temper and who has friends in the highest office in the land?

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