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Some are nervous but Finn was calm, unruffled and phlegmatic and he looked like he belonged.
BBC: Jonathan Agnew column
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Hard to be phlegmatic when the cards are stacked and the capricious gods are pissed and feeling vindictive.
BBC: In search of the perfect road in Mallorca
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He was an unassuming man, steady, phlegmatic, with a thick brush of white hair and a craggy outdoorsman's face.
ECONOMIST: Robert Taylor
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No other city in India bears such colossal inconveniences with such phlegmatic grace.
ECONOMIST: Terrorism in India
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True to form, his approach in their first meeting was forthright and phlegmatic.
WSJ: The Architect and the Plantsman | Partnership
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The abuses of the post-Suharto era have turned Indonesia's financiers, and perhaps its voters too, into a fairly phlegmatic bunch.
ECONOMIST: The party that backed Suharto remains strong
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Losing Glasgow East would panic even the most phlegmatic Labour MPs.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot
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Hence his venomous anger at postwar England's "sycophantic, phlegmatic and pusillanimous" upper middle classes, among whom the right accent was far more valuable than a high IQ.
WSJ: Look Back in Anger | Still Angry After All These Years | Theater Review by Terry Teachout
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So, on the face of it, it looks heavy-handed for the airline to have antagonised its normally phlegmatic cabin staff to the point where they vote to strike.
ECONOMIST: British Airways
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The Canadian media, a phlegmatic lot on the whole, seems to be taking a certain nationalistic pride in the fact it was probably their man who made the commission president crack.
BBC: The Canadian who riled Jose Manuel Barroso
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The featurette, set in the summertime, brings a mother and daughter from the suburbs of Paris to a vacation apartment that Sylvain manages and pulls them gradually but inexorably into his phlegmatic vortex of chaos.
NEWYORKER: A World Without Women
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On the housing front, the National Association of Realtors reports that sales of existing homes rose to an annualized pace of 4.13 million units in August, which was consistent with the consensus of forecasters but also the second most phlegmatic pace of sales since July of this year.
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