Word: temperamental
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Though she has been sightless since the age of 12, Sabriye Tenberken has never lost her vision. She sees the needs of those who share her disability. In the late 1990s, the Bonn native, who was blinded by a congenital degenerative retinal disease, studied for a master's degree in...
He said that jurists should be selected for their “lawyerly skills and judicial temperament.” But he said that the Court’s progressive voices had politicized the judicial process in recent years.
So if Kerry's test in Boston was to show voters that he is not weak, Bush's task at the Republican Convention in New York City this week is to show that he is not wrong, that his strength comes not from a six-gun temperament but from judgment...
There were no doubts about the winner the next night. Russian diva Svetlana Khorkina, the three-time world champ, wobbled on the balance beam and was more ballerina than athlete on the floor exercise. But Carly Patterson, 16, whose klutziness in the team final let Romania beat the favored Americans...
Sean Penn is a big left-winger--plus he's won an Oscar--but he may not have a politician's temperament.