The phrase 'explosive temperament' is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe a person who has a very quick temper and is easily angered or frustrated. For example, you could say: "My colleague is known for his explosive temperament, so I try to avoid getting into arguments with him."
So nitrogen, for example, is "a regular guy with an explosive temperament".
The John Gosden team has done a tremendous job in keeping a lid on Rainbow View's explosive temperament.
Daffy Duck, cartoon character, a gangly, black-feathered duck whose explosive temperament and insatiable ego lead him into an endless series of comic misadventures.
From the outside looking in, Bielsa may have cut a ghastly figure, stalking the pitch on the touchline and displaying an explosive temperament.
It's this passivity that sets Mr. Garrel apart from his two more famous contemporaries, Jean Eustache ("The Mother and the Whore") and Maurice Pialat ("À Nos Amours"), whose similar attempts to seize a sloppy, unmediated reality were energized by compulsive intellectualizing (Eustache) and an explosive temperament (Pialat).
Penn, of course, has had more than his share of run-ins with the media and is known for an explosive temperament.
Gerry and Devlin, from similar backgrounds and with similarly explosive temperaments, once had to be dragged out of a fist fight behind the speaker's chair at Stormont.
Fitt and Devlin, coming from similar backgrounds and with similarly explosive temperaments, once had to be dragged out of a fist fight behind the Speaker's chair at Stormont.
Heavy users of cocaine, other stimulants, and alcohol were more likely to have an irritable-explosive temperament.
Iñárritu has an instinctive feeling for the volatility of hard-pressed people, for the varieties of explosive sexual temperament, and he has drawn committed, almost reckless performances out of such actors as Gael García Bernal, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts — even Brad Pitt, as the man trying to save his wife's life in "Babel".
When the explosive Choleric ballerina in "Temperaments" crouches in a ball center stage and four men approach her cautiously, the image doesn't lose its power: I still see them as men advancing toward an unexploded bomb.
