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Do Picasso's "blue period" paintings really strike one as "hot" and "temperamental"?
Other distinctions visible today point up temperamental differences between the two men.
In light of Mr. McCain's record and reputation in Arizona [as temperamental], one must ask how effective a Lone Ranger like him would be in the White House."
I see the rather boring point about using alumni to cover both men and women, and I quite agree that the use of relatively newer and less widely used terms like authoress, aviatrix , and poetess seems to be a deliberate, unwarranted attempt to identify someone as a female; but a graduate of the feminine gender is a `woman graduate' = alumna , the `first woman dancer in a ballet company' is a prima ballerina (I've never heard of a “prime ballerino”), and a `woman opera star' is a diva or prima donna . I hesitate to point out that we use prima donna of men, too, because my critics will say that they disapprove of the term's second life as designating a “temperamental person of either sex.
In its "exclusive" interview with Mom, the Enquirer extracts the information that as a boy Starr was spoiled and temperamental and so "got a lot of spankings."
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