Those huge issues aside, it seems clear that Mr. McCain's success in the Senate has been limited by his temperament in two ways.
Fingers thoroughly loosed by Prokofiev's climactic tempest, Mr. Bronfman offered further evidence of his technical brilliance and refined temperament in two encores, Chopin's Études in F (Op. 10, No. 8) and C sharp minor (Op. 10, No. 4).
In the early nineteen-nineties, Worley developed a sixty-item questionnaire that he called Worley's Identity Discovery Profile, or W.I.D.P., which sought to quantify a person's temperament in three areas: social and vocational, leadership, and relationships.
In her book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), she showed that masculinity is not necessarily expressed through aggressiveness and that femininity is not necessarily expressed through passivity and acquiescence.
Her other works include Growing Up in New Guinea (1930; new ed., 2001), Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935; new ed., 2001), Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis (1942, with Gregory Bateson, to whom she was married in 1936 51; reprinted 1962), Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964; reissued 1999), and A Rap on Race (1971, with James Baldwin; reissued 1992).
His "Four Temperaments" in four symphonic movements is a triumph of sincerity over originality.
When he played Harvey Two-Face in Batman Returns - a character whose head and temperament are split in two by acid, simultaneously Jekyll and Hyde - it wasn't his best performance but was, perhaps, the most literal self-description, since Jones's greatest cinematic virtue is to always appear to be a double.
Both sides of the pianist's artistic temperament were represented in two encores: a contemplative rendition of Debussy's ethereal "Clair de lune," performed with a restraint that informed much of his recital, and an electrifying account of Liszt's "Transcendental Etude" No. 10 in F minor.
Whether one agrees with this assessment will be a matter of philosophical temperament, in particular of one's willingness to tolerate subjective probabilities in one's account of evidential relations.
On the contrary, they were flush with dramatic allusions: the god with his muses in "Apollo," the women winding as if across a Greek vase in "Concerto Barocco," the troubled sleeper in "La Sonnambula," the Temperaments, in the "Four Temperaments".
Animal models have implicated oxytocin effects in two temperaments, Novelty Seeking (NS) and Harm Avoidance (HA) [ 10], but a study of human OXTR variants has pointed to a third temperamental factor, Reward Dependence (RD) [ 11].
