American Presidents who have attempted large-scale economic transformation have always had their efforts tempered — and sometimes neutered — by powerful economic interests.
But some colleagues and former Sotheby's employees, who signed confidentiality agreements in exchange for lucrative financial settlements but who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, said she displayed a temper and willfulness, sometimes directed even at Mr. Taubman, the chairman, who himself is strong willed.
His violent temper and great strength sometimes led him to go beyond the rules of propriety, and in May 1743 he was placed under arrest.
The voice carrying the novel is witty, observant and hypnotic, and tempers the sometimes cloying dialogue and improbable plot.
Cooped up together during the day, the family battles boredom and cabin fever, and sometimes tempers flare.
And sometimes, tempers flare, as they did in late October in Iowa, where polls show Dr. Dean fighting it out with Mr. Gephardt.
The Schaeffers' son, Frank, a novelist, illuminated Mrs. Schaeffer's contributions further in a 2011 memoir, "Sex, Mom & God," portraying his mother as the skilled and uncowed handler of her moody husband, whose tirades and sometimes violent temper tantrums she endured and kept hidden from L'Abri's shelter-seeking guests.
Grant is shown to be a complicated character, whose thoughtfulness and kindness are balanced by a too quick and sometimes uncontrollable temper (taken out on his mother and his ex-boss) and a tendency to lie (he has cheated on his girlfriend, and pretends he hasn't lost his job).
For example, a person whose mèt tèt is Ogou is expected to be brave, bold, and sometimes quick tempered.
