temperamental

And by the same token, how was I to guess that her brother Pat's offishness with me was anything else than temperamental gloominess of spirit?

It is not an individual, temperamental achievement, but simply the skilled use of a captured force, merely another step forward upon the way of universal conquest.

"It is just temperamental. Perhaps you haven't encouraged him to talk."

Not that I--a confirmed and, as Furuseth phrased it, a temperamental idealist-- was to be compelled; but that Wolf Larsen stormed the last strongholds of my faith with a vigour that received respect, while not accorded conviction.

Neither Cleveland nor Harrison, for temperamental reasons, used the magic wire very often.

There's something temperamental. I think you're a trifle cold, and I suspect I'm a trifle self-absorbed.

Larry Hegan, who rose ably to the largest demands of Daylight's operations and who had few illusions and less hypocrisy, might have proved a chum had it not been for his temperamental twist.

I am too classical, not enough up-to-date in the interpretative branches of science, and I can only plead the disadvantages of my education and a temperamental slothfulness that prevents me from doing the work.

This obstinacy and these poems are only the most conspicuous result of Wordsworth's chief temperamental defect, which was an almost total lack of the sense of humor.

Between two such organisms one would not have expected to find the slightest temperamental accord.

He had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle; of one whom the clenched fist of Fate has smitten beneath the temperamental third waistcoat-button.

A moment later the temperamental peer's dapper figure became visible in silhouette against a background of pale light.