Word: temperamental
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"It's a job description that is reasonably coherent, and the tasks are known and the number of people who have the required kinds of experience, temperament, knowledge of the institution and talent is a very small pool," Rudenstine said. "It's not a position in which you want to...
Like his contemporary Chopin, Liszt was immeasurably better at writing for piano than for orchestra. In either of his two piano concertos, every part except the soloist's will seem like mere accompaniment. This was especially true in this performance of Liszt's second concerto, in A, where Yukiko Sekino...
In physical type, and in superficialities of temperament, Hiss and Chambers could not have been more different. Hiss on first inspection looked like the Fred Astaire of the mandarin left, lithe and well bred, the Establishment's own darling prothonotary warbler. Chambers, sad-sack Dostoyevskian pudge, more Slavic than American...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The change in the temperament of the people seems to make it easier than reducing the deficit in the past has ever been. It's a lot different."
It's quickly established that Brad's siblings are staggeringly mean, given to berating him in tandem with statements like: "If we put mamma in a home, she'll die, you know. And it'll be all your fault." But other than this single, salient feature, none of the characters...