Sanguine relates to air, choleric to fire, melancholy to earth and phlegmatic to water. |
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Spanish medical knowledge of the age, still heavily based on Galen and scholasticism, assumed that light-skinned men were colder and phlegmatic. |
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It's almost unbelievably fitting that these supremely phlegmatic men live in Spitalfields. |
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British governments maintained their phlegmatic calm and resisted provocation. |
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If we are as phlegmatic as we like to believe would we revel so conspicuously in our tragedy? |
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But not for Zander, an impressively phlegmatic young character who just takes that kind of publicity in his stride. |
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Macha is 145 pounds of phlegmatic composure, a St. Bernard who can't help but look dignified and profound, even when she is waiting for a treat. |
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Yet even his phlegmatic character would have been bewildered by the mountain of a task which he had roped himself into. |
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But while, to the outside world, he appeared as phlegmatic and calmly in control as ever, behind the scenes it was a different story. |
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The fact that they did so without any great fuss and noise seems to me to be a tribute to the phlegmatic Scottish character and should not be seen as a psychological fault. |
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Yet we still say a person is choleric or phlegmatic, in good or bad temper. |
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This view seems to extend, regrettably, to infant mortality and an evidently somewhat phlegmatic attitude to the ease of a replacement pregnancy. |
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Someone who is phlegmatic will be rather thin and limp with a pale complexion. |
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A phlegmatic temperament corresponds to a fatty body and cold skin with too little hair. |
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The character of the Persian Longhair is often being described as somewhat phlegmatic and very modest. |
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In the fall of 2004, the Libertines split up and the elegant and phlegmatic song writer Carl Bârat started working on his new project. |
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The masculine heroes are phlegmatic, resourceful and stoical. |
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He is also phlegmatic on the subject of his dealings with Hollywood. |
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It becomes even more acute when viewed through the eyes of phlegmatic observers whose upper lips have been conditioned to stiffness from their earliest years! |
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He is undoubtedly one of the most phlegmatic sportsmen in the world. |
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The normally phlegmatic Jones fumed at reports suggesting that Radcliffe was anything less than ready, saying they might act as an incentive to her rivals. |
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Humanly, Warrel seems phlegmatic, his personality composed and thoughtful. |
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Can lusty diet, and mollicious rest, bring forth no other fruits but faint desires, rigid thoughts, and phlegmatic conceits? |
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Jumpy, anxious, fussbudget Lemmon and phlegmatic, lethargic, slovenly Matthau became a household item with 1968's The Odd Couple. |
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Some phlegmatic European officials whisper that their American counterparts have become overly risk-averse, believing that they can see off every threat that may arise. |
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For instance if some one has a phlegmatic temperament he should avoid cold and humid foods and drinks and chose what is hot and dry and so on for each other temperament. |
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He became even more flabbergasted to discover his phlegmatic nephew. |
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For the past two years, the phlegmatic Dutchman, who thinks best while jogging, has devoted most of his time to getting the group's ethical policies right. |
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The Germans approached the game with their usual phlegmatic sense of discipline and organisation, preferring Thomas Berthold to Wolfgang Rolff to give them extra width, pace and penetration on the right. |
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Since the predominance of a Humour has an impact on the character, we can identify four basic temperaments: choleric, sanguine, melancholic, phlegmatic. |
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But three goals from as many corner kicks, two of them scored with headers by giant Dutch centre back Michel Vonk, surprised even the usually phlegmatic Kendall. |
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Their friendship is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German. |
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Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas. |
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