Word: temperamental
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"Susan is uniquely suited to take on these new responsibilities. By background, experience, temperament and judgment, she is ideally equipped to lead University Development in this challenging period," Reardon wrote.
Start with what people know. They know you're experienced, they know you're an adult, they can see the flintiness. But they don't know if you have the presidential temperament, that you're a big, good-natured, stable, tough-minded optimist. You also need to show that you...
All year your aides and friends have been telling you to show your passion. But after three years of sentiments and feelings from the White House, the whole country hungers for logic. (And in any case, every time your staff tried to make you show passion, you wound up pounding...
And I wanted to avoid overinterpreting what the results actually mean. It's possible that Perot's appeal to saucer spotters has nothing to do with what commentators are diplomatically calling his temperament. Maybe, in one of the many public appearances he has made to say that the Reform Party...
The official Corot is generally a bore. The nymphs, shepherds and Sileni who decorate the big classical landscapes of his middle years are inert and stereotyped. He didn't have the temperament for the sensuousness Poussin put in his classical scenes; Corot's nymphs are just studio models. In Bacchante...