Before long the reader begins to suspect that this ill-tempered diary is also intended as a kind of psychological case history. |
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He was true to his word and bowed out gracefully after an ill-tempered special general meeting in Edinburgh. |
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His problem was rather the reverse, namely that he became aggressive, ill-tempered and moody. |
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All the indicators pointed towards a decent game of football although the game's early spell was fractious and ill-tempered. |
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I got through the first day of the month, then, not too grumpy, or ungrateful, or ill-tempered. |
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But when composure gave way to a series of ugly and ill-tempered clashes, there was only going to be one winner. |
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A generally ill-tempered second half boiled over into heated exchanges on a number of occasions. |
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It was the first indication that the game could become ill-tempered, and it also marked out Hammell as the fall guy. |
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Life for her and her siblings on Blawearie farm is conditioned by the weather and the mood of her thrawn, ill-tempered father, John. |
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Obviously, I would like to take the opportunity to thank the parliamentary secretary for helping me develop my ill-tempered nature. |
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However, the two years of negotiations from Bali to Copenhagen were fraught and ill-tempered. |
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Hmas Tobruk's renowned can-do attitude came to the fore when a remote coastal landing was in jeopardy last month because of ill-tempered tides. |
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Though charming and pleasant, she was too ill-tempered to be a perfect gentlewoman. |
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Any advice for well-tempered students who study with ill-tempered teachers? |
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How wrong is the Tea Party, irate and ill-tempered as it may be, in its critique of government operations? |
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The match was an ill-tempered clash, which yielded a record 14 yellow cards. |
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Serbia squeezed past Austria 1-0 in an ill-tempered Group 7 match in which eight players were booked. |
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At Weydon fair, this corn thresher got drunk and spoke in an ill-tempered way of his wife. |
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An ill-tempered, compassionless moneygrubber, Scrooge runs roughshod over everyone he encounters. |
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My dad was usually a passive-aggressive person, only when my mother pushed certain buttons did he tend to get irritated and ill-tempered. |
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He qualified the team for Euro 2004 and repeated the trick, in tough circumstances, for the World Cup, following an ill-tempered play-off against Turkey. |
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He was awkward, prickly, ill-tempered, condescending and unpredictable. |
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The match was an ill-tempered and full-blooded affair that saw one player sent off for each side and plenty of attacking action. |
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The big man has been in the thick of the action during the ill-tempered series and his chief tormentor grassed him on two, the slip-up proving costly for the home side. |
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It's clearly a kelpie, that ill-tempered water-horse of Celtic tradition, resurfaced for the modern age. |
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Sometimes she is unforthcoming and ill-tempered. |
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It makes you rotten, ill-tempered and cranky. |
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Go now, before ill-tempered queues start to form. |
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They did and an ill-tempered series ensued. |
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An ill-tempered, sometimes violent husband and his despairing wife. |
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Its aliens are unruly, ungrateful, slovenly and ill-tempered. |
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The ill-tempered all-UNCAF affair remained goalless until the 69th minute when an astonishing miscommunication at the El Salvador rearguard saw the ball fall to the feet of Jose Manuel Contreras. |
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Their ill-tempered personalisation of the controversy through sourly self-justificatory sound-bites merely brought broadcasting disputation to an unseemly new low. |
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I think they're generally skittish and ill-tempered animals. |
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Buried under a layer of quilts he alternated between moodily staring at the paper, morosely changing channels, or just being a great big ill-tempered miserable lump. |
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He is largely viewed as an ill-tempered, stodgy government bureaucrat. |
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And it is time for him to stop sputtering ill-tempered threats, not only at the judiciary but also at the U.S. Constitution, which he repeatedly has sworn an oath to uphold. |
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Ill-tempered child of the Gothic, itself an ill-tempered rebuke to a drably weaponized, mercantile, industrial canny. |
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On the other hand, lyrics are sung by John Geek, an authentic screamer whose shrill voice will annoy many a listener, so much it reminds of some ill-tempered pug's apoplectic bark. |
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Celtic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in the book and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close. |
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