The word 'phlegmatic' is a valid and commonly used word in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is calm, composed, and unemotional, especially in a situation that would provoke a strong reaction in others. Example: Despite the chaos and panic at the accident scene, the emergency responders remained phlegmatic and efficiently carried out their duties.
The Germans approached the game with their usual phlegmatic sense of discipline and organisation, preferring Thomas Berthold to Wolfgang Rolff to give them extra width, pace and penetration on the right.
Balls, the frontrunner for the role, admitted he was surprised, and was said to be disappointed but phlegmatic.
He's less phlegmatic about the rise of sub-agency deals, whereby one agency sell his pictures to another, and who sell to another, vastly reducing the photographer's initial cut (50% at best).
Having failed to win the 2013 city of culture bid (it went to Derry), phlegmatic Hull is talking up how success this time around would help it overcome centuries of prejudice.
For the past two years, the phlegmatic Dutchman, who thinks best while jogging, has devoted most of his time to getting the group's ethical policies right.
IN THE middle of Syntagma Square in central Athens, flanked on one side by parliament and on another by luxury hotels, would-be revolutionaries jostle for space with phlegmatic African street-traders selling handbags.
Some phlegmatic European officials whisper that their American counterparts have become overly risk-averse, believing that they can see off every threat that may arise.
Even in Cumbria, there is a more phlegmatic view of it.
Otherwise, he says, "we will continue to live under the tyranny of the status quo that we have seen in the past two years".Mr Berisha is more phlegmatic.
At least a decade passed before he agreed to sit to Velázquez once more, and his pain shows through in the care-worn, paunchy face of the 1656 portrait.As the king was aware, his "phlegmatic painter" saw it as his duty to portray what he saw before his eyes with a cool detachment.
The former Labour chancellor of the exchequer retains the manner of the Edinburgh advocate he once was: clear about what he thinks, insistent to a degree, yet a little world-worn and, in the end, phlegmatic.
