"Hands-on mentoring" of a junior colleague can be code for an affair, hopefully not coupled with a "volatile" personality, which means terrifying eruptions of temper.
His effusive geniality is streaked with eruptions of temper and impatience with his wife, Katrine (the excellent Charlotte Cornwell), and grown daughter, Petra (Isabel Pollen).
For years, we were playacting the daily routines of marriage, with my sudden, sometimes insane eruptions of temper, our long-standing joke about moving each other's tchotchkes, our constantly repeated lines (though his, ideally, came from Shakespeare).
Sloane Pearson, the Chicago cop who was introduced in Theresa Schwegel's "Probable Cause" and who returns in LAST KNOWN ADDRESS (Minotaur, $24.99), is a fighter, which is genre code for a woman constantly goaded by men into unladylike eruptions of temper.
He frequently was hours late arriving for floor and committee sessions and colleagues noted that he was given to slurred and bombastic speeches, volcanic eruptions of temper and to seemingly going out of his way to pick arguments.
McCormack, the chairman and editorial director at St. Martin's Press, enjoys various sorts of fame for his acute commercial instincts, for his love of serious literature and for his laconic personality--occasionally interrupted by wry bursts of wit and volcanic eruptions of temper.
Tantamount to calling for insurrection against democracy, the only saving grace of her extraordinary late-night eruption of bad temper was its futility.
He was prone to eruptions of pique.
It was an eruption of his dismay, a temper tantrum because games were simply passing him by.
He dislikes swearing or displays of temper.
