Word: tempering
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...ending. The sense of doom that begins gathering from the very first moments is suddenly, not quite persuasively, blown away in its final ones. This is not a movie imposition. It's pretty much the conclusion Price chose for his novel. Perhaps understandably. There is a human need to temper misery with mercy. And as we emerge from this exigent movie, we have some reason to be grateful for this last-minute softening of its spirit...
...Ripken does have a flaw, it is his temper. He doesn't tolerate incompetence on the part of umpires or teammates. "I'm also stubborn," he says. "I think that's one trait I share with Gehrig." But by and large he conducts himself with consideration and intelligence and good humor. His parents have something to do with that, but so does the Orioles' organization, which has a unique tradition of encouraging players to become active in the community. Ripken is particularly involved in an adult-literacy program in Baltimore...
Fried, while calling the temper outburst "amistake," has maintained that he had a right tothrow the protesting students out of his office...
...have a temper too. I stifle an impulse to fire back what W.C. Fields called "an evasive answer." Instead I pause and let the adrenaline subside; I roll my eyes to the ceiling and raise my open palms, priestlike: Peace...
...just very concerned about the politics ofdivision. We built this country on beinginclusive, but division is sort of the temper ofthe times," Sanders said. "I hope that rationalvoices will prevail and that I'll be one of them...