Moody office worker taking ages with one sort of arithmetic

Usage examples of temperamental.

He had a reputation for being temperamental in the OR, but I had Dever seen him act that way on the floor.

Simon to erupt in temperamental rage, the very opposite of the love vibes he normally beamed at the Beatles.

He was editor, and he was completely within his rights to reject the story, and I was being pettily temperamental to be angry about it.

When the dogs are considered to be temperamentally and physically rehabilitated for return to civilian life, the Head Trainer and the Chief Veterinarian will submit a joint report on the temperamental and physical condition of each dog to the Commanding Officer in writing, with recommendations for final disposition, for transmittal to higher authority.

How on earth could a woman hope to hold her own against that kind of charisma, coupled with what looked like a shrewd understanding of both temperamental writers and women?

Harvey sofar forgetting himself at times as to let his voice rise in temperamental disagreement.

Generous to a fault of course, temperamental, no economising or any idea of the sort, always snapping at the bone for the shadow.

She was temperamental, even difficult at times, but no woman had captivated him, ensnared him as she had.

The temperamental telepaths had always to be handled carefully and Grimes did not wish to provoke the man into insubordination, with its inevitable consequences.

As a child she had often been the victim of his whims and moods and temperamental outbursts.

The word, in fact, characterises that artist whose temperamental preoccupation is with revelation of the actual interrelating spirit of life, character, and thought, with a view to enlighten himself and others.

At such moments she was relentless, she was temperamental, she wasn't taking calls, outside communications were filtered through the only two individuals who could or would dare to speak to her during production: her personal assistant, Elsie, a smaller, compacter, darker version of Freya who seemed instinctively to dislike everybody, and Rags, her husband, a spectral presence in leather pants and stainless steel glasses ("Nazi goggles," Freya called them), his large bony nose the subject of the usual jokes, the odious peat-bog aroma of his ever-present black cigarette enhancing the general aura of disquieting omniscience with which he distanced fans and followers.

I've been traveling for four days with two temperamental backseat drivers.

So how come you professional military types carry on like theyre the greatest thing since sliced bread if theyre so temperamental and unreliable?

So how come you professional military types carry on like they're the greatest thing since sliced bread if they're so temperamental and unreliable?