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For all the eccentric Dr Hinzpeter's efforts over a ten-year period, that too was to no avail.The Kaiser grew up to be emotionally needy, bombastic, choleric , hyperactive and hypersensitive.
As a result, both main unionist parties may be losers in this election.As always, the choleric Ian Paisley, founder and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), accuses the larger Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) of preparing to "sell Ulster out".
Not according to the indignant panelists in this glorious Fox Business segment, led by the professionally choleric Lou Dobbs:Juan Williams fears the worst.
What Indonesia has not done is close radical schools like al-Mukmin or figured out how to counter JI ideologues like Abu Bakar Basyir, the choleric cleric controversially acquitted of involvement in the Bali bombings.
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Picador; £15.99PicadorSIR VIDIA NAIPAUL, the choleric and controversial author of "A House for Mr Biswas" and "Enigma of Arrival", rose from modest beginnings in Trinidad to win (last week) the Nobel prize for literature.
So any talk of a "Bayreuth crisis" must be the nonsense that Wolfgang Wagner, choleric director of the festival and grandson of its founder, snorts that it is.
They also blame Mr Trimble's erratic style for the fact that the Democratic Unionists, led by the gruff Ian Paisley, a 79-year-old fundamentalist preacher, gained four seats and now have nine MPs, with a whopping 33% share of the vote.Mr Trimble's admirers counter that their man, a choleric hardliner turned seeker of compromise, was undermined by the IRA.
But the choleric cleric was also reputed to be the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist network, although prosecutors could never prove the allegation.In this section Green around the gills Arrest of a smiling extremist Party poopers Over my dead body Running into the sand They have returned ReprintsNow the police say they have him cornered.
The concept of neuroticism can be traced back to ancient Greece and the Hippocratic model of four basic temperaments (choleric , sanguine, phlegmatic, and melancholic, the latter most closely approximating neuroticism).
According to their relative predominance in the individual, they were supposed to produce, respectively, temperaments designated sanguine (warm, pleasant), phlegmatic (slow-moving, apathetic), melancholic (depressed, sad), and choleric (quick to react, hot tempered).
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The word "choleric" functions primarily as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe a person or thing characterized by irritability or quick temper. Ludwig shows its use across various contexts, aligning with its dictionary definition.
Expression frequency: Very common
