Word: temperamental
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Q. You've said in different ways to different audiences that you don't have the patience to be President. You said once, "My orientation toward results would get me into deep trouble." You've obviously thought about this and decided that you do, after all, have the temperament?
Q. But you're not going to change your temperament. What you're saying is that the country now wants a temperament like yours?
But in sharp contrast to his counterparts in the Washington journalistic firmament, Greider boasts the temperament, outlook and career trajectory of an angry outsider. For one thing, he writes these days for Rolling Stone, a publication rarely confused with, say, the New Republic. Greider's stance also sets him apart...
Now Howards End, Forster's richest novel, has become Merchant Ivory's finest film. Elegant and powerful, accommodating collisions of class and temperament with the grace of a perfect Edwardian hostess, Howards End is the work to which all Merchant Ivory's other films have pointed and aspired.
"I wrote that the content of Mr. Buchanan's quoted remarks was indeed anti-Semitic, 'whatever it was that drove him to say and do it: most probably, an iconoclastic temperament.' In short, I communicated my own private guess that Buchanan is not anti-Semitic."