He amusingly has to deal with two deeply prickly Iron Curtain personalities: Pryor's thin-skinned and mercurial lawyer Vogel (Sebastian Koch) and top DDR apparatchik (Burghart Klaussner), each of whom is given to office-based temper tantrums.
NPS director Stephen Mather is colorfully described as "charismatic, with his movie-star looks, exuberant personality, and Rotarian bonhomie" (96), while thin-skinned George Goodwin (a chief civil engineer of the NPS) is cast in less complimentary terms to illuminate his contentious personality.
Carswell is not the only member of Ukip to have fallen out with the party leader this week – Patrick O'Flynn, Ukip's economic spokesman, claimed Mr Farage had become "snarling thin-skinned and aggressive," while turning the party into a personality cult.
It's probably what you'd expect from someone with a personality not unlike our President's — thin-skinned and pugnacious, with a tendency to treat women as chattel.
Election campaign chief Patrick O'Flynn said Mr Farage was a "snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive" man who risked turning UKIP into a "personality cult".
On Thursday the party's economic spokesman and MEP Patrick O'Flynn described Farage as a "snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive" leader who was turning the party into a personality cult.
Nigel Farage has become a "snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive" man who is making Ukip look like a "personality cult", the party's campaign director has claimed in a devastating attack.
Gilbert and Sullivan sometimes had a strained working relationship, partly caused by the fact that each man saw himself as allowing his work to be subjugated to the other's, and partly caused by the opposing personalities of the two Gilbert was often confrontational and notoriously thin-skinned (though prone to acts of extraordinary kindness), while Sullivan eschewed conflict.
This triggered a civil war at the top of the party, with MEP Patrick O'Flynn saying in an article in the Times that Mr Farage had become a "snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive" man who is making UKIP look like an "absolutist monarchy or a personality cult" and others calling for a leadership contest.
There could be a clash of personalities as well, which wouldn't be too surprising considering how thin-skinned Trump has always been.
Published in The Journal of Research in Personality in 2006, it found that subjects who at 3 years old had seemed thin-skinned, rigid, inhibited and vulnerable tended at 23 to be political conservatives.
