Word: temperamental
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Common mental conditions, such as anxiety disorders, eating disorders and depression, can be thought of as a pathological rind wrapped around an intact core. Peel the skin away through talk therapy or melt it away with drugs, and the problem may abate. Personality disorders, by contrast, are marbleized through the...
All of which, to many of those who had to deal with him, made him a royal pain. The British Prime Minister thought the President behaved like a heathen come to rescue the missionaries. The French Prime Minister, exasperated by the President's airs, said that talking to him was...
But what about something else? Dr. Laurence Sperling, a cardiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, says in severe cases, antianxiety medications may become part of hypertension treatment. Raj scoffs at that prospect, but he realizes now that his temperament could have tremendous health consequences he didn't have time to...
He thought he might take his first step back into the arena in September, at the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, where two years earlier he savaged Bill Bradley as lacking the heart to "stay and fight." But Sept. 11 intervened; instead of the battle cry...
In between the two goals, the game was played with high intensity. Players sacrificed themselves going after loose balls. Bodies collided. Knees were bruised. Temperament wore thin. Naturally, the physicality of the game carried over emotionally, prompting several near brawls in the game.