(a.) Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relationship between extreme temperament in infancy and clinical status at 4.7 years of age was studied in temperamentally different groups of infants matched for sex and SES, and subselected from a large birth cohort representative of the general population.
(2) To investigate the role of "behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar" as an early temperamental characteristic of children at risk for adult panic disorder and agoraphobia (PDAG), we compared children of parents with PDAG with those from psychiatric comparison groups.
(3) Impulsive and bonhomous, Saakashvili, meanwhile, is clearly the temperamental opposite of Putin, the sober and clinical former KGB colonel.
(4) Children suffering from a psychiatric disorder had more temperamental difficulties and their parents showed a higher level of psychopathology than those without a disorder.
(5) The motion recorder results confirm with instrumentation a critical assumption of temperament theories and identify the presence of genetic contributors to temperamentally relevant behavioral differences in infancy.
(6) It is hypothesized that abdominal pain represents an interaction between a vulnerable temperamental style and environmental stresses.
(7) Yet like many Hollywood stars, he could also be temperamental.
(8) It was concluded that from a global temperament standpoint, our high-risk preterm 3-year-olds were not perceived as more temperamentally difficult than term controls.
(9) The initial dispositions to approach or to avoid unfamiliar events are 2 temperamental characteristics of children--among the many that have been described--that appear to be moderately stable over time and associated with distinct, physiological profiles that may be under partial genetic control.
(10) Results suggested that interaction of temperamental proneness to distress and secure attachment history leads to intolerance of a lengthy laboratory separation at this age.
(11) He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility.” He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility Hillary Clinton Flanked by US flags for the widely trailed address, Clinton said a Trump presidency could lead to catastrophe.
(12) They showed temperamental organizational difficulties and some indication of psychosomatic reaction to stress.
(13) The sun shone continuously, our little tent seemed great fun and we travelled around in a lovely (if temperamental) convertible sports car.
(14) It also enabled her to satisfy that temperamental need to be inside and outside whatever world she was in.
(15) The functional linkage between platelet MAO activity and psychopathology was explored by analyzing temperamental correlates in 40 male subjects by means of scales from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), the Zuckerman Sensation Seeking Inventory, and the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP).
(16) He bought the temperamental Marseillaise, and United have never looked back except in the anger that now jeopardises their hopes of a unique treble.
(17) The role of the environment was significant in explaining the cognitive, language, and temperamental status of these children at age 3 years.
(18) In general, the interaction between mother and infant had a synchronous quality that was influenced by, but largely independent of, the temperamental characteristics of mother and infant.
(19) However, a multivariate regression analysis showed only low socioeconomic status (P less than .01) and increased perceptions of temperamental difficulty (P = .02) associated with maternal behavior problem scores.
(20) She behaves like a temperamental teenager with a chip on her shoulder when it comes to authority figures.
Tempestuous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Jets have overperformed to this point, reaching the halfway stage at a respectable 4-4, when many had expected them to struggle in the wake of a tempestuous offseason.
(2) Spurs’ title hopes were abruptly ended following a tempestuous match in which 12 players were booked by the referee, Mark Clattenburg.
(3) Among the big names in the running for the awards are Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, who are recognised for their portrayal of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a BBC4 drama based on the couple's tempestuous life together.
(4) It seems that Malema's dramatic and tempestuous political career may be over for now.
(5) This derby bore little resemblance to the tempestuous Merseyside affairs against Everton – of which Gerrard played in 33 – and he was withdrawn three minutes from time.
(6) In 2007 Winehouse married Blake Fielder-Civil, a part-time gopher for a music video company with whom she had been having an on-off tempestuous relationship.
(7) Notwithstanding tempestuous progress in the development of monoclonal antibody kits, culturing of Coxsackie viruses will continue to be of substantive importance to diagnosis, because of the small size of pathogens.
(8) Before the long balmy era we have enjoyed over the past 10,000 years, climate was often much more tempestuous.
(9) He left his children's mother for Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel , with whom he had a brief, hedonistic, tempestuous relationship with violence on both sides.
(10) Among the big names in the running for the awards are Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, who are recognised for their portrayal of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a BBC4 drama based on the couple's tempestuous life together with leading actor and actress award nominations.
(11) Prominent substance abuse history, tempestuous biographies, and unstable early home environment were common to all diagnostic subgroups.
(12) Eight years later they'd meet again at Villa Park, Rafael Albrecht getting himself sent off for kneeing Helmut Haller in the swingers during a tempestuous (but goalless) group game.
(13) Mourinho, reviled in Spain following his tempestuous spell at Real Madrid, made it known in the build up that it was Hazard, and not Cristiano Ronaldo, who deserved to be known as the second best player on earth.
(14) Roy Keane has described himself as living with a “self-destruct button” as he looks back over his tempestuous career and tries to explain his old drinking habits and how difficult he found it to adjust to life after playing football.
(15) The birth of the parliament in Edinburgh has been tempestuous, with rows over Section 28, the mounting cost of the parliament building and the exam results fiasco.
(16) At a tempestuous session of the self-proclaimed supreme council of the Donetsk People's Republic on Tuesday afternoon, there was shouting and arguing about the best way forward, and the divisions between different strands of the movement were apparent.
(17) Over the tempestuous decade of his 1970s glory years, Bowie illuminated popular culture in a way unequalled since, and which is unimaginable in the X Factor era.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vice-president Joice Mujuru, formerly known as Spill Blood, has an often tempestuous relationship with Grace Mugabe.
(19) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
(20) But her announcement, following the departure this year of Behan's predecessor, Cynthia Bower, will have drawn much of the sting from what was likely to have been a tempestuous hearing.