If Mr. Butz is an expressive stage animal, Ms. Holmes is a listener who is more used to being observed (and photographed) than acting and speaking impulsively.
Dr. Ramo was described as flamboyant, mercurial and prone to speak impulsively, letting his thoughts bounce around, while Wooldridge, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, looked and acted like a professor, calm and introspective.
He acts and speaks impulsively, then regrets his actions.
Ramo was described as flamboyant, mercurial and prone to speak impulsively, letting his thoughts bounce around, while Wooldridge, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, looked and acted like a professor, calm and introspective.
"I'm just interested in speaking freely and impulsively and not having to edit things into a sensible shape," he said.
Melissa Stephens, a young woman I wrote about in my piece, did tell me that she needed to prepare herself mentally for the surgery, but most donors I spoke to decided to donate quite impulsively and didn't seem much troubled by the physical aspect of it.
"People don't realize what's happened since 2000," said Joe Trippi, the Dean campaign manager, when I spoke to him shortly after Al Gore, the Democrats' would-be technopresident, impulsively crowned Dr. Dean as his heir.
But she added, "He sometimes acts and speaks too fast and impulsively without reaching consensus first".
Mr. Gingrich's tendency to speak bluntly, provocatively and sometime impulsively may be part of his emerging appeal at a time when conservatives seem intent on sending a no-business-as-usual message to Washington.
He'd speak animatedly, excite easily and impulsively declare we all abandon school for the day to head to the local mini golf course.
Also, it is common to speak extremely fast and to act impulsively.
