Word: temperamental
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Both deans say that Pedersen will do a wonderful job as dean. She has both the necessary experience and temperament for the job, they say.
First, we can make no reasoned conjecture about the frequency, or even the existence, of life elsewhere in the universe. As an optimist by temperament and as a betting man, I allow that certain features of the natural world would lead me to place my chips on yes if someone...
Intellectual Russians, among the few citizens who oppose the war, see it as the ominous sign of an authoritarian temperament prepared to enforce "order" at the expense of "law." Some even charge him with completely inhumane cynicism, allegedly plotting the bombings that provided the outraged casus belli. No one so...
Joe Nuccio, playing the role of Monostatos, is also worthy of accolades. Nuccio brings across the deviousness of his character but does so with a charismatic temperament that lightens the mood of the opera without detracting from the plot. His cunning attempts to woo Pamina and his conniving intentions of...
"In 1964, I never would have entertained the idea that the genetically based temperament of the child would play such a powerful role in determining personality traits," he said.