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And as nerves fray and tempers rise, you can be assured of a catty remark or backstage rumpus.
It's doubtful if either of the two gentlemen have the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers.
The anarchic comedy of these performers effectively tempers Baxter's tendency towards deferential sentimentalism.
One difference, however, is the note of realism and levity that tempers every show.
I am also a Taurus, they say that we have bad tempers and are very domineering.
It's known for hot tempers, drug lords and timber barons, none of which you want to mess with.
We quarrelled, like any couple in love and we both had terrible tempers when we were roused.
Every week we sit and work hard, with music as our only comfort, maintaining our sanity as tempers flare.
Yesterday, however, the mayor ventured out of New Orleans to visit a shelter in Shreveport where the tempers are short and the passion's high.
Emerald was a cunning, quick, but brutal girl with a temper as bad as tempers come.
Like most expats, however, he tempers his fascination with some critical observations.
What's more, protein tempers blood sugar fluctuations, preventing the spikes and crashes that can leave you hungry and drained.
Coconut milk tempers the spices of the green curry fish, so it works with the cherry, smoky plum, and other flavors in the Pinot Noir.
Home boss Allan Evans was banished to the stand as he too fell victim to fraying tempers.
Mara and the president went at it hammer and tongs, beating out offer and counteroffer as blood boiled and tempers rose.
Solid waste has become a touchy issue these days, with tempers flaring up at the slightest mention of the topic anywhere.
It also helps if the filmmaker tempers those ambitions with a little humor, which always goes a long way in a short subject.
In unfortunate cases, these dogs possessed short tempers when they were around noisy children.
We usually have short tempers, and can be more than a little hard to get along with.
First, all vessels with exotic, non-quartz tempers ought to occur either as outliers to the local chemical groups or in the unassigned category.
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She was a harmful woman, a destroyer of young tempers, a hardener of young hearts.
The brute in him urged him as madly in his desire as it did in his harsher tempers.
Strangely enough the voice, though well-known, seemed to have a sobering effect on all these ebullient tempers.
They will have smiled at his childish tempers, applauded his snakelike cunning, and laughed outright at his heathen superstitions.
Under the silent horror of foreboding our nerves became raw and our tempers, like those of the others, short and raspy.
But the difference of their tempers made the characteristical distinction between them.
Especially, if you both have inflammable tempers, do not both get mad at once.
I told him that it was the badness of our language, he thought it was the badness of our tempers.
Under such circumstances tempers often wear thin, and a habit of bickering takes possession of a mess.
Towards evening, when the tides of travel set northward, it is curious to see how the gripman and conductor reverse their tempers.
If I am capable of judging, our tempers and inclinations are vastly different.
This bred high tempers, turbulent manners and contempt for the weak.
They are all on the defensive, lose their tempers, as though they all want to make one feel something.
The tempers of men were never worse than at that moment, Renard wrote.
Generally, however, this harmless question would only make his fellow workingmen lose their tempers and call him a fool.
But under Monk there is a resoluteness about the Swans, a battling quality that tempers their traditionally creative instincts.
Ascribes to the difference in each of their tempers their mutual love.
The wines had been heady, and all tempers were at fever pitch.
Yet even the gayest of tempers succumbs at last to constant friction.
Tighter controls and staff cuts are already leading to long queues and short tempers.
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