These days, of course, ugly displays of temper are most likely to become public on the internet.
You know, maybe this could all be summed up in just one overarching rule: When you've lost an election and feel like throwing an ugly, months-long temper tantrum just to hurt your opponent out of spite... don't.
Fortunately in tennis, the news about Serena Williams does not involve the ugly parts of her temper but her latest comeback from a foot injury.
From the outside it may look like malingering, bad temper and ugly behaviour – and who can empathise with such unattractive traits?
Three of his best routines have been collected here, with a CD of the original 1958 recordings: about Kate Higgins, Miss Goggins — "who was not only very ugly, but had a temper" — and the forgetful Martha Matilda O'Toole.With witty illustrations by Lindsay duPont.
Despite what fans may chant from the stands, refs are able to unpick intent in handballs, divine the degree of danger in ugly tackles and calm fraying tempers as no computer can.
Another critic said, "while Ferraro is interested in issues of distance and impermanence, there is no lo-fi fuzz or warm nostalgic haze to temper how flat and ugly the music he's referencing on Far Side Virtual is".
HE had a quick temper, and friends found it ugly.
It was, as Le Monde put it, "a crime of the times, a form of magnifying glass on the real state of our society".It is not just the ugly nature of the murder that has stirred tempers.
For all its acrid temper, "Shrek!" was very much a charmed fairy tale: the perfectly ugly creature finds his perfectly ugly mate.
