After one speech, he was spotted in a tense exchange with an aide, a flash of temper his spokesman later attributed to a teleprompter malfunction.
Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California, showed a flash of temper when asked what will happen when the Senate rejects the House's offer.
Balls shows a flash of temper for the first time: I don't really give a toss, to be honest with you.
As for Mr. Boehner, on Friday he played down any personal animosity between him and his Democratic adversaries, but did show a flash of temper when he referred to suggestions from the White House that Democrats had the advantage.
A flash of ill-temper when he was a teenager saw him ditched by Arsenal but there is now a fair prospect, 10 years on from the expulsion, that he will win his first England cap at some stage in the friendly with France.
Guo B has often been likened to him, but when I mentioned the comparison I evoked a rare flash of temper.
When he reported that his horses were "absolutely broken down from fatigue and want of flesh," Lincoln displayed a rare flash of temper: "Will you pardon me for asking," he telegraphed, "what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietam that fatigue anything?" In the words of his secretary John Nicolay, Lincoln kept "poking sharp sticks under little Mac's ribs".
And a jazzy walk, an interesting tremor, the occasional lordly flash of temper or mood swing might in their milieu mark out a man of character.
