temper tantrum

I know all of this sounds incredibly petty, like a philosophy professor having a temper tantrum when he is denied a nerdy pleasure or his intellectual birthright.

Whether the country or the courts buy into his imperial tantrum remains to be seen.

Just a few months ago my 3-year-old son, mid-tantrum, broke my grasp to run from me in a crowded subway station.

“When I was a kid I used to have temper tantrums on the basketball court,” he says.

“I have an unfortunate temper that flares up not too often, thank God,” Baquet says.

He is said to have received a warning from the overall al Qaeda organization to temper his videos.

The Marshals were inclined to attribute their disgrace to the ill-will of Berthier and not to the temper of Napoleon.

But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."

If any one has lost his temper, as well as his money, he takes good care not to show it; to do so here would be indeed bad form.

Victor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.

All these exhibitions of temper and anger result from what I have pointed out to your Majesty in many other letters.