intemperateness

Before, we could only suspect the intensity of his anger, resentment and intemperateness.

His intemperateness, sexual and social, is a waning echo of adolescence.

However indignant and hotheaded he might appear, his intemperateness could rapidly be defused by humour or kindness.

Mr. Barenboim let the grandeur and the humor, the quiet sentiment and the intemperateness play themselves.

A few correspondents verged on intemperateness, e.g.:

The intemperateness of Mr. Truman's anti-Stevenson campaign probably gave Mr. Stevenson the nomination on the first ballot.

Charles Socarides, who has asserted that "homosexuality . . . is a masquerade of life," has rivaled Bergler "in intemperateness, though he lack [ s ] Bergler's smugness and cruelty."

SCHOENBERG'S Second Quartet tells more of his story than anything else he wrote: the love for familiar music's beauties, and the intemperateness, the loneliness, the striving always for something better, purer, truer, stronger.