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Her father drank too much hard cider, had a raging temper, and ruled the household as master.
Her mother educated her in strict seclusion, but even this measure failed to tame her imperious and ambitious temper.
Her friendship with Annabella Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth, dates from about this time and lasted for some seven years ; it was brought to an end apparently through the Baroness's unreasonable temper.
Her behavior became unpredictable, her temper impressive, and her decisions harsh and unforgiving as she displayed behavior that made all who knew her suspicious.
Her performance earned her a part on Ugly Betty as herself, the victim of Wilhelmina Slater's temper as they vie for a cab in the episode " Bananas for Betty ", which aired December 6, 2007.
Her extravagance, foul temper and promiscuity provoked diarist John Evelyn into describing her as the " curse of the nation ".
Her savage temper also had a contribution in Drusilla's death.
Her face was fair, her person pleasing, her temper amiable, and her heart kind.
Her bluntness and short temper sometimes comes in handy.
Her even temper and her patience were instrumental in knowing how to deal with a difficult husband and make a success of her marriage.
Her short temper and eccentric nature lead her to many hand-to-hand fights with adversaries often even larger than her.
Her temper tantrums are a force of nature.
Her husband, Philip, drinks, is insanely jealous and has a vicious temper.
" Her charming manners, noble character, amiable temper, scholarly power, find their full opportunity and inspire such friendships as are seldom made afterward.

Her and sparked
Her death while en route to Scotland, sparked off the disputed succession which led to the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Her ideas have sparked an explosion of debate in areas as diverse as primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology ( Kunzru, 1 ).
Her appearance together with the Iranian leader sparked immediate negative reactions: Socialist MP Maria Roth-Bernasconi said it was " irritating that she had angered feminists in Iran ".
Her imprisonment sparked rebellion across Brittany on her behalf.
Her death sparked the disputed succession which led to the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Her presentation sparked Peter Cooper's interest in Indian issues, and led to the founding of the US Board of Indian Commissioners and the subsequent Peace Policy in the administration of Ulysses S. Grant.
Her appearance-as an unknown ( her debut record had been released less than a month before )-on Saturday Night Live television show on April 7, 1979 sparked an overnight sensation.
Her own independence inspired women throughout the region as her writings sparked controversy in her own culture.
Her actions sparked the modern civil rights movement.
Her introduction to tai chi sparked a desire to learn ballet.
Her bizarre sense of humour and atypical song choice immediately sparked an interest with viewers, particularly on the Internet.
Her solo rebellion sparked a stop-work meeting by 250 of her newsroom colleagues who made a broader stand for truth.
Her conviction was controversial, and sparked much debate about whether Marks was actually instrumental in the murder, or merely an unwitting accessory.
Her death sparked a week of mourning for Māoridom leading to her funeral on 21 August 2006.
Her mother's research in linguistics and father's stint as the founding director of Black Studies at the University of California at Berkeley sparked her interest in language and culture.
Her second book, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, sparked her rise to fame, selling over 3 million copies.
Her disappearance from Duluth, Georgia, sparked a nationwide search and intensive media coverage, including some media speculation that Mason had killed her.
Her interest for flying was sparked when she was 12 years old when she and her father had the opportunity to fly in the cockpit of a Ford Trimotor airplane.
Her death sparked off a bitter feud between Nolan and author Patrick White, who excoriated Nolan for abandoning his first wife ( she and White were close friends ) and remarrying Mary Perceval so soon after Cynthia's death.
Her disappearance sparked one of the largest searches ever conducted by the Connecticut State Police.

Her and like
Her legs were the full, sexy kind, full bodied like a rare wine and just as tantalizing to the appetite ; ;
Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.
) Her Nicolas lay curled in the sun like a fawn, black hair falling over his eyes.
Her `` Rockabye Your Baby '' was as good as it can be done, and her really personal songs, like `` The Man That Got Away '' were deeply moving.
Her tanned foot, whose arch swept high and white, pointed artfully toward tapering toes -- toes like fingers, whose tips glowed white.
Her cough sounded like cloth ripping.
Her Cousin Emma Carraway had written it, in her loose high old lady's script -- t's carefully crossed, but l's inclined to wobble like an old car on the downward slope.
Her attire often consisted of " thrift shop " babydoll dresses, and her face adorned with smeared makeup ; MTV reporter Kurt Loder described her as looking like " a debauched rag doll ".
Her image with the dead Memnon across her knees, like Thetis with the dead Achilles are icons that inspired the Christian Pietà.
Her familiar Homeric epithet Boôpis, is always translated " cow-eyed ", for, like the Greeks of Classical times, its other natural translation " cow-faced " or at least " of cow aspect " is rejected.
Her ideas also inspired other writers, ranging from horror authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Dennis Wheatley to Robert Graves.
Her outspoken defense of capitalism in works like Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal ( 1967 ), and her characterization of her position as a defence of the ' virtue of selfishness ' in her essay collection of the same title published in 1964, also brought notoriety, but kept her out of the intellectual mainstream.
* Her eyes twinkled like stars.
One character, identifying him, says that it is " just like On Her Majesty's Secret Service ", which was Lazenby's only Bond film.
Her justification for the action, " I don't like Mondays ," inspired the Boomtown Rats to make a song of the same name.
Her mother rejected her at birth, and she was hand-raised by the zookeepers like a human child, dressed in clothing and fed from a bottle.
Her cousin Stephen of Blois was, like her, a grandchild of William ( the Conqueror ) of Normandy ; but her paternal line meant she was senior to Stephen in the line of succession.
Her speeches became rambling and incomprehensible, and even her enemies lamented that debating her had become " like playing squash with a dish of scrambled eggs ".
Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!
For example, in Love ( 1927 ) a title card reads, " I like to be alone "; in The Single Standard ( 1929 ) her character says, " I am walking alone because I want to be alone "; in Susan Lenox ( Her Fall and Rise ) ( 1931 ) she says to a suitor, " This time I rise ... and fall ... alone "; in Inspiration ( 1931 ) she tells a fickle lover, " I just want to be alone for a little while "; in Mata Hari ( 1931 ) she says to her new amour, " I never look ahead.
It was a relationship he explored repeatedly, particularly in films like Manhattan ( 1979 ) and Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ).
Her father liked the idea of having daughters named Olga and Tatiana, like the sisters in the famous poem.
Her specialty is naïve young girls – much like myself … Once she sank her teeth into me, she didn ’ t let go.
Her influence extends to contemporary filmmakers like David Lynch, whose film Lost Highway ( 1997 ) pays homage to Meshes of the Afternoon in his experimentation with narration.

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