Word: temperamental
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On Chaplin's first night in New York in September 1910, he walked around the theater district, dazzled by its lights and movement. "This is it!" he told himself. "This is where I belong!" Yet he never became a U.S. citizen. An internationalist by temperament and fame, he considered patriotism...
It's going to happen one of these days, a woman in the White House," he says. "She's got the qualities and the temperament to do a good job."
Still, my temperament is more cautious. I'd hold Microsoft but wouldn't buy more just yet. The continuing investigation could push the stock lower than its $85 9/16 at Friday's close. I'd buy if it dropped to about $77. As for Microsoft's sworn enemies, Sun Microsystems...
He knew your hidden heart. Did anyone know his? He sang and made us all believe we did. And then, just when we had his assurance, he changed and kept us guessing. How could the guy who made an album as naked, turbulent and forsaken as Only the Lonely get...
...really was a very simple family man, entirely devoted to his temperamental wife--he was really a henpecked husband...I sang a lot of his lieder, and often his wife Pauline would listen. Some of the lieder seemed to bring back happy memories to them both, and Pauline would run to him, throwing her arms around him, saying with big sobs of touching sentimentality, "Do you remember, Richard?"--and he would have tears in his eyes, too. They were a strange couple. They fought like mad--needless to say, Pauline always started the fights...He said to me when...