But the effect of Mr. Turner's efforts is hard to assess, in part because his hot-and-cold temperament sometimes undercuts the weight of his words.
For the neutral there is always a hope that with the final now in his grasp Messi might revert to the style of his earlier years as a relentlessly scurrying false 9, the all-action Messi who seemed the perfect fusion of imagination and athleticism and that deadly cold "European" temperament.
The four essential mizaj (temperaments) are hot, cold, moist, and dry.
His juxtaposition of the two — cold north versus hot south, Swedish temperament combining with African license — gives the novel its unusual flavor.
We seem now to be living in a world where everyone has an artistic temperament — emotive and touchy, cold and self-obsessed — yet few people have the artistic gift.
The two men are of clearly opposite temperaments, one hot and one cold, and Tyler is prone to what he calls "LSD – Lead Singer Disease".
In "More Money Than God," Mallaby, who interviewed Mercer, describes his temperament as that of an "icy cold poker player"; Mercer told him that he could not recall ever having had a nightmare.
The very fatalism that has always defined the Russian temperament – the ability to bear the cold, the wars, the dictators, with a hollow shrug, is now, in tandem with modern contraception, being turned against their species.
The way people spoke, in short, clipped phrases or long, flowing rambles, revealed so much about them: their place of origin, their social class, their temperament, whether calm or angry, warmhearted or cold-blooded, foulmouthed or polite; and, beneath their temperament, their true nature, intellectual or earthy, plainspoken or devious, and, yes, good or bad.
Neither seemed the obvious murdering type, much less someone with the icy temperament to gun a woman down in cold blood.
