Any concerns, though, seemed tempered by what the e-mail also noted was the lucrative nature of the arrangement.
But while the troops seemed clearly pleased to have Mr. Bush with them, their enthusiasm seemed tempered in some cases by the likelihood that they might have to ship out again next year for a long deployment, possibly to Iraq.
The decline far outstripped the expected 800,000 barrel decline, but a rise in stocks of refined products like gasoline seemed tempered the trader reaction.
Yet Perdue's pride in his work history seems tempered by reports that his campaign deleted a paragraph from its website that described Perdue's stint as a consultant for a startup in India, from 2007 to 2009.
The mood even seems somewhat tempered at Maxim, which installed a new editor in chief four months, ago -- Keith Blanchard, a Princeton graduate and suburban father who has spent a good part of his career writing for men's magazines.
The report seemed to temper some of the market's losses.
Similarly, the influx of Belgian and Japanese designers who came to show in Paris in the early 1990s seemed to temper the traditional seductiveness and frivolity of Parisian designs.
That discovery seemed to temper Nixon's nerves, making her mindful that, unlike someone undergoing chemotherapy, she still had her eyebrows, eyelashes and radiant pink cheeks.
Existing in an alternate realm of time, the ghost also has a tempo of its own, a phlegmatic, nearly shuffle-like glide that seems to temper the tempo of the entire movie — as if the movie itself were haunted, inhabited by this practical, ever-so-slightly yet overwhelmingly comical, silent ghost, who's invisible and inaudible to the living.
