Word: temperedness
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The fact that Schiller, Toobin and Cochran are all published by Random House, Inc., has not tempered their Bosnia-like, three-way war. When Cochran finishes attacking Schiller, he has a few choice words to say about Toobin: "His opinions really are racist in their implications: that the jurors weren...
Despite their obvious dominance over the Crusaders, the players' elation with the result of the game was tempered by their knowledge that they did not play up to their potential.
Farther afield and five years after the war, other coalition members watch Iraq through a more complex lens. Gratitude for defeating Saddam back then is tempered today by new interests and demands. Turkey's Islamist government is keen to revive relations with its old trading partner. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain...
Johnson abhors ostentation. Not surprisingly, Fidelity has no corporate jet or limousine. No Fidelity tower looms over the Boston skyline. He walks to work. Like all true Yankees, he has a visceral hatred of waste. Beneath his gentility is a steely confidence tempered by years of business combat. He has...
Clearly a project for which Jane Seymour was not approached, Once a Thief is nevertheless a perfectly viable movie-of-the-week, one in which Woo has tempered his darker instincts. Present are his trademark slow-motion shots, ingeniously choreographed fisticuffs and gunplay--yet nary a visible drop of blood...