Sentence examples similar to odd temperament from inspiring English sources

But the odd rhythms of his temperament are less interesting when so much is at stake.

The lax genre of personality journalism would not seem to be the most congenial medium for a man of David Salle's sharp, odd mind and cool, irritable temperament.

The Chilean was headhunted to solve the two faults the club grandees identified in Mancini: a volatile temperament and an odd failure to thrive against the continent's aristocrats.

They have a good temperament.

The ghost of George Balanchine made a few tantalizingly elusive appearances, most notably in a solo entrance for Mr. Angle that looked like a meditation on hauntingly odd male solos in Balanchine's "Four Temperaments" and "Square Dance".

Instead of regarding them as so many millions of individuals with separate temperaments and outlooks, all they saw was an odd, conglomerate being which they called women.

"Fluid" is perhaps an odd word to use for a movement that includes violent changes of temperament and rudely interrupted phrases, but Ornstein's sense of narrative is supremely assured.

The odd and inappropriate line of questioning by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C). about Sotomayor's temperament was widely seen as sexist, and indeed it was.

People seem to think that the sole features of autism involve being solitary and odd, possibly with a dash of "magic disabled supergenius" thrown in and a prickly temperament.

Mr. Klugman was already a decorated actor in 1970 when he began co-starring in "The Odd Couple," a sitcom adaptation of Neil Simon's hit play about two divorced men — friends with antagonistic temperaments — sharing a New York apartment.

Weight, sex, temperament, and time point during the study had a minor effect (< 10% change in Odds ratios).