temperamental

• “Reveka, honest and temperamental, is easily outmaneuvered, and so it is usually Reveka who joylessly plunks a silver tray on the coffee table and retreats in a sulk.”

  Excerpt: A Death In Vienna by Daniel Silva

• “And yet there is a certain temperamental similarity, evident enough now, though it would not have been so a dozen years ago.”

  Inside the Whale

• “There, he became known as a temperamental experimentalist, obsessive and fearless.”

  NPR Topics: News

• “But the truth is that we’ve always had it; it’s just that it used to be called being a brat, and then it was called temperamental, and now it’s called something else.”

  Simon & Schuster: You Raising Your Child

• “The main temperamental difference between Blair and Brown is that Blair really is/was a neo-Gladstonian, and there’s no sense of that kind of lofty paternalism in his approach to governance.”

  Matthew Yglesias » “Pro-American”

• “Yaks are known to be temperamental, which is why I gave them plenty of respect even as I clamored closer for photographs.”

  Lukla To Phakding » Dave Brosha Photography

• “CZ: You have been called temperamental, eccentric and tempestuous.”

  The Huffington Post: Patricia Zohn: Off the C(H)uff: Zaha Hadid and Her MAXXI Museum in Rome

• “BEHAR: I remember you from the old days of "Catch a Rising Star," and you were what you would call a temperamental comic.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2009

• “BEHAR: You are a very -- I remember you from the old days of "Catch a Rising Star." you were what you would call a temperamental comic.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009

• “One set of errors are what might be called temperamental errors, i.e., excessive domination by a given passion.”

  Malebranche and Seventeenth-Century Views of Heredity

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