Sentence examples for powerful temper from inspiring English sources

His adopted son Matthew (Montgomery Clift, in his film debut)- -- orphaned years ago in an Indian massacre -- joins him, but when the two cross swords over Dunson's obsessiveness, the older man loses his powerful temper and expels his ward, vowing to kill him if and when he next sees him.

While he believed that men should dedicate their lives to the pursuit and enjoyment of pleasure, he also believed that they should use good judgment and exercise self-control to temper powerful human desires.

Back then, Safin's fluid but powerful game and his volatile temper were spiraling out of control.

Silva's controlled cinematography and desaturated color palette temper the dancers' powerful rhythms with subtlety.

In a strongly worded statement, associate director Evan Harris branded the development as a "temper tantrum by some powerful people used to having their own way".

"To assume that a childhood temper tantrum is so powerful that you can't do anything but buy a kid a meal that has a toy with it is ridiculous," he said.

This is a temper tantrum by some powerful people used to having their own way and they will in due course see that the voluntary independent self-regulation proposed by Leveson is a generous settlement".

Replica Exchange with Solute Tempering (REST2) is a powerful sampling enhancement algorithm of molecular dynamics (MD) in that it needs significantly smaller number of replicas but achieves higher sampling efficiency relative to standard temperature exchange algorithm.

But their bitterness about the Assad's decision to put them at the vanguard of the war has been tempered by an even more powerful sentiment: fear.

American Presidents who have attempted large-scale economic transformation have always had their efforts tempered — and sometimes neutered — by powerful economic interests.

The tension between star and director was nevertheless productive: Paths of Glory is a dark, emotionally powerful film in which Douglas's passionate humanism tempers Kubrick's harsh, traumatic view of European history.