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• s  not easily irritated

• Though considered to be an even-tempered, if not altogether unexciting, politician, he has a stated affection for music and has composed his own love songs.
• Young Sam has seemed a bit brash and arrogant to outsiders, but friends at Williams found him "relaxed" about his wealth and "even-tempered.
• Less irascible and blunt than his hard-driving predecessor Zhu Rongji, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has earned the reputation of being a modest, even-tempered and practical person .

• equable
• good-tempered
• placid

News & Articles

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• Flowertown Players and South of Broadway to collaborate
  Theater people are notorious for being more dramatic than the shows they put on, but the even-tempered people of Next Stage are trying to change that. Next Stage is the combined effort of two theater companies: Summerville’s Flowertown Players and North Charleston’s South of Broadway. more…
  June 12, 2013 - Charleston City Paper

Quotes

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• Ric Keller in FOXNews
  I can just say that Gates has an even-tempered demeanor and he tends to give us the facts without a lot of adjectives,said Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., after leaving a meeting Wednesday between Gates and 23 House Republicans, mostly moderates...
• Phil Garner in SI.com
  He's a very even-tempered guy,said Garner, who managed Milwaukee from 1992-99. "Robin Yount was this way, Paul Molitor was the way, some of the great pitchers I've had, they're very even-tempered."
• Pierre Trudeau in The Daily Star
  However, India may appreciate what former Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau said of his big neighbour: "Living next to the US is like sleeping with an elephant; no matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and...