tempering

The money, I soon discovered, was compensation for the founder’s temper — and I put up with those tirades because taking home an extra $30 per week means a lot when you’re living paycheck to paycheck.

OK, call it what you want, but I had to get control of my temper.

In the past few days, as regulations change in my corner of the world, tempers are growing shorter, and I find myself and my co-workers to be a sort of lightning rod for customers' frustrations.

Four of the Capitals' games against the Sabres will come in the season's first 10 days, and players and coaches already have seen tempers get short.

There, they are vulnerable to disease and predation — not to mention one another’s bad tempers.

But I question whether we have achieved the proper balance of patriotic expression tempering dissent that Obama championed.

Even more so than Donilon, however, she has a temper that needs tempering.

And your current brand of persuasion entails tempering pushiness with aplomb, brute force with benevolence.

Tempering the turn toward the dark are a bevy of classes on comedy.

Now for the tempering of the Gudgeons, I leave it to the judgment of the Workman; but a word or two of the polishing of it.

The ministers of religion possess the secret of tempering the alarms which they have the art to excite.

The tempering of steel after it has been forged into shape is a specialty, almost a natural gift.

It is interesting to note that age and misfortune and illness had a tempering influence on Mark Twain's nature.

Glycerine is a good tempering substance, and to this may be added a small amount of sulphate of potash.