Word: temperers
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...tempting, as with any good fable, to see the Saints' 3-0 regular season record as a harbinger of the city's revival. But even the most devoted Saints fans have learned to temper their enthusiasm. "We love them even when they lose," said Anderson. "I'll be happy if they just finish the season eight and eight...
...instead. People power has declared that Irwin was a good bloke-and there's nothing the sneering smarties and wowsers can do about it. It was not surprising that Irwin's family turned down the offer of a state funeral; that sort of pomp did not match his democratic temper. Anyway, the spontaneous mourning is a fitting tribute to the way Irwin lived and a gut reaction to the shock of his early departure. No longer will he carry the top weight. The next Australian symbol, whenever one emerges, will find Irwin a singular act to follow...
...operative word there is "imagine." The movie can't really prove anything against him beyond bad temper and a foul mouth. Which leaves us reaching for Occam's razor, that most useful of philosophical concepts, which holds that the simplest explanation for complicated events is generally the best one. In that sense, the occurrences recorded in Hollywoodland are like the theories surrounding Monroe's death (or, for that matter, JFK's assassination); they require a lot of coincidences to fall into place, as well as the complicity of too many unreliable individuals, for them to be truly plausible. The film...
...anything can temper the sorrow after his tired heart finally packed in last week, it is the certainty that Len could not have extracted any more fun from his life. As we drove up to the Hunter last Thursday, my daughters in the back seat heard a brief tribute on the radio. Nine-year-old Emily asked, "Do you think Grandpapa had done everything he wanted to?" "He never got to Barcelona," I said-the beleaguered heart had several times frustrated his desire to see Gaud?'s architecture- "but I can't think of anything else...
...some ways it is just a repetition of what happened in the Balkans. Is there a role in Iraq for an international court? That should have been decided before they started the trial of Saddam Hussein. It's probably too late. You are renowned for having a temper. What makes you angry? Injustice. Not criminal injustice - global injustice...