phlegmatic

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As Brent Griffiths at Business Insider explains, the "approach breaks people down into five types: Melancholy, Choleric, Sanguine, Supine, and Phlegmatic."

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2023

The repertory has plenty of shining opportunities for them too, like the title roles of “Prodigal Son” and “Apollo” and parts like the Phlegmatic variation in “The Four Temperaments.”

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2018

I single out Christopher D’Ariano, who on Tuesday gave an exemplary account of the Phlegmatic variation, caught up in the movement as if infected by it; but I’m tempted to name several others, too.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2016

His roles in Balanchine ballets included the Cavalier in his “Nutcracker,” Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Phlegmatic in “The Four Temperaments.”

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2015

These Lovers were not so Phlegmatic, they ardently repeated their Protestations to love each other with an eternal Constancy.

From The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol by Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de