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It advances McCain's campaign themes--integrity and fearless independence--while sating reporters who imagine that their questions about his "temper" amount to tough-minded scrutiny.
Its effort to reorganize political parties on a social and economic rather than ethnic basis misread the temper of the Malay masses.
The Farrelly brothers' latest slapstick is said to hark back to the screwball romances of the 1940s: The Dumb & Dumber directors temper their repulsive humor--which includes gags about a mangled penis and the mentally retarded--with a touching love story.
His voice was growlier, his temper quicker, and his shaky masculine pride always on the line.
Consider Diana, the baby sitter to the Sloane Ranger crowd who apparently threw daily temper tantrums from the moment she entered the royal palace, who developed a pathological jealousy of her husband's ex-girlfriend that may have driven him back into her arms.