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Marie was told to "flatten out" her Glaswegian accent, and keep her fiery temperament hidden.

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His temperament has been criticised plenty of times since then and often his game discipline too.

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Goal-kicking has always been dominated by obsessive backs - think Jonny Wilkinson and Owen Farrell with their meticulous routines - but Eales showed that forwards can also have the required temperament and technical skills.

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Suzanne claims to want everyone to feel “empowered,” though her controlling temperament pokes through her welcoming facade.

Subsequent synthetics display a range of temperaments, from Lance Henriksen’s Bishop, realistic enough to pass for human, to Michael Fassbender’s David 8, the earliest Weyland-Yutani invention to achieve a lifelike version of artificial intelligence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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