She is as interested in the quirky intellectual temperaments of astronomy's pioneers as their discoveries.

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When we look back at our greatest presidents, we see our greatest presidential temperaments.

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It will reach a fever pitch between Christmas and New Year's, as more fragile temperaments begin to snap.

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Keller and Abramson came to treat their different interests and temperaments as complementary.

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The first is that successful pairing is merely a matter of matching personalities, finding people with compatible temperaments and attitudes.

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Both Baroness Thatcher and Mr Blair refashioned the cabinet system, as previous premiers have done, to suit their particular temperaments.

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"Unquestionably, I think a major link is to the underlying temperaments of both bipolar illness and depression, of reflectiveness and so forth, " Jamison said.

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Arguably, Mr O'Neill's strictures reflect a clash of temperaments.

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Pitchers come in all sizes and temperaments.

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Fascinated by the lives and personalities of others and fond of art-world gossip, Golding possessed emotional intuition that enriched not only his intimate relationships but his art-historical writing, where artists are presented as individuals with temperaments that profoundly influenced the tenor of their work.

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