Word: temperedness
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What purpose was served by Mansfield's presence? His arguments and indeed his presence were irrelevant and in the end proved distracting. Let's be clear about this: Jackson was the featured speaker, and he alone was the reason that people waited on line a full hour before the program...
Nine years after Cosette and company immigrated to the United States, it is safe to say that Alain Boubil's epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1500-page toms has a death grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all...
That Saturday morning I was up bright and early, rearing to go. My excitement was not tempered by the fact that the only golf I had ever played was an annual round of putt-putt on family trips to the beach--I was decked out in all the golf attire...
My sympathy for Koestner is tempered by my understanding. of the facts, and by the fact that it is inconceivable to me, that in a situation where one's physical and mental health might be jeopardized, one would deliberately engage in behavior which would almost certainly guarantee that outcome.
It adds up to the most radical program of any serious candidate for President. Alexander is well equipped to sell it. He is statesmanlike and disciplined; charming and even tempered-everything, in short, that Perot is not. Republican theorist Bill Kristol calls Alexander "a gentler, saner Perot" who can run...