While Mr. Phillips tempers the intensity of the workout when it comes to his older clients — including Mr. Weiner, who has had double hip replacement surgery — that doesn't mean they lollygag through their 60-minute sessions.
Dressed all in black and accompanied by piano, guitar, bass and drums, her moment has finally arrived and she's grabbing it with both hands, delivering every line as if her life depended on it and tempering the intensity with self-deprecating humour.
While it hardly sounded as if Mr. Taylor had lost his edge, it did sound as if he had found a way to emphasize the lyricism that has long been an important if underappreciated color in his palette, and to temper his intensity without damping his fire.
Tempering the intensity of his remarks Charles said, "Once people are pulled into my work, I want them to feel joy and happiness -- because when I'm painting I'm happy".
His intensity is tempered by an irreverent sense of humor.
Borthwick then used that "ball-busting" anecdote to illustrate how he has tempered his once-consuming intensity.
The strident thrust of early songs such as Geno and Dance Stance may have been tempered by the years, but the intensity remains and is now channelled into vocal performances that walk the line between passionate and melodramatic.
There's lamb with the purple intensity of hogget, its pungent animality tempered by goat's curd and minted broad beans, its… Oh, who am I kidding?
The intensity of his early works -- tempered by maturity and rationality -- is still very much there.
However, this memory may have been tempered by the perception that meteorologists over-hyped the intensity of the wind- and wave-damage from Irene for the major cities along the Eastern Seaboard, where tens of millions of Americans live.
His self-described attitude to wine is one of "ignorance, tempered slightly by philistinism," and his culinary heroes are notable less for subtlety of palate than for intensity of passion.
