Bookish, balding, tall and ungainly, sunny in temperament, too trusting of others' good will: Dos Passos was the sort of man who aroused Hemingway's sadistic appetite.
It was a big night for Rice and Hudson-Odoi as Southgate trusted their talent and temperament in a volatile environment, and both came through with flying colours.
Clinton returns the sentiment by contending that Trump lacks the temperament to be trusted with the nation's nuclear weapons and is being aided by hackers directed by the Kremlin.
It's baffling to see some Americans trust a man with questionable temperament to lead them, when calm heads are an extreme necessity in the office of the president.
But Americans seem to be trusting what their eyes tell them: temperament trumps experience and every instinct of this man, whose very identity represents an act of reconciliation, hones toward building change from the center.
The manager will still have to decide when next he can trust in the centre-back's temperament.
Apart from his more ideologically ardent handlers, Bush has always seemed to have an essentially optimistic temperament and an instinctive trust in personal relationships and in the ability of reasonable people to work things out.
But in fleeting moments he reveals the temperament of a dreamer, the side that the trusting schoolteacher Ellen Orford sees.
Over half the public tilts negatively on other attributes, with a slight majority saying Trump cannot be trusted in a crisis and larger percentages doubting his judgment, temperament and honesty.
Sergeant Crowley was a trusted adviser of the Cambridge police commissioner, known for his even temperament and as a role model to younger officers.
The anti-trust suit that followed revealed the extent of Gates's hyper-competitive, arrogant temperament.
