Choleric

The third temperament is called choleric; it applies to the hard-driving, “get things done” kind of person. ❋ Dr. Lynn Anderson (2000)

And in choleric wrath he left her in pursuit of the chief officer. ❋ Unknown (1993)

A food such as honey, for example, which was thought to be "choleric" and extremely "hot" in quality, could be harmful to people who were also choleric in temperament and to those who tended to have a lot of natural heat, like the young. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Note 196: Since Federico was born on 7 June, he was said to be of "choleric" temperament, the humor of red bile seated in the heart and given to anger and strong emotions. back ❋ Unknown (2008)

Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) ascribes this to "choleric" persons: ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Objection 1: It would seem that the species of anger are unsuitably assigned by the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) where he says that some angry persons are "choleric," some "sullen," and some "ill-tempered" or "stern." ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

That is not true, of course, for in repose his face was heavy, his countenance more than ruddy; it was even of a "choleric" cast, and at times almost livid, especially when he was recovering from one of those attacks of asthma from which he habitually suffered. ❋ Unknown (1919)

In Greek and Roman medicine Excessive bile was supposed to produce an aggressive temperament, known as 'choleric'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"choleric" persons, who are angry too quickly and for any slight cause. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Bobby was a loner, though, and that was unheard of in our family of raging sanguine choleric extroverts. ❋ Misti Rainwater-Lites (2011)

Bill is a choleric/sanguine temperament and Obama is melancholic/phlegmatic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No wonder that the gods of Egypt – of which there were approximately 1,500 in all – can seem, to anyone brought up on tales of the Olympians, or even the choleric god of the Old Testament, decidedly lacking in individuality. ❋ Tom Holland (2010)

It has as little place here, where we are talking epistomology in modern scientific terms, as a taxonomy of humours — sanguine, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic — has in biology. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Sime thundered, the choleric blood darkening his thick bull neck. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Warden Atherton was a choleric man, and he took my request for insulting braggadocio. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After the death of Brian Johnston he seemed to abandon levity and good humour, on air at least, alternating between choleric disdain for the players he thought not good enough and an unsatisfiable appetite for contrasting the modern game in a stridently unfavourable light with the one in which he had made his name. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Instead, the cheeks, under the whiskers, puffed; the eyelids lifted, exposing blue eyes, choleric and fully and immediately conscious; the right hand went out to the half-smoked pipe beside him, while the left hand reached the matches. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From the choleric exhibition he gave there and then it has been an unceasing wonder with me to this day that he has not long since died of apoplexy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The choleric TV anchors, partisan journalists and opinion-mongers of India's corporate media routinely amplify the falsehoods and deceptions of Indian intelligence agencies in Kashmir. ❋ Pankaj Mishra (2010)

I don't see how he gets strongly [choleric] from this chart at all. *. [Choleric] temper, seek to irritate him. *. Choleric temp [eram] ent with his SoM Merc [ury] in a fixed sign on the ASC. ❋ Nallaten (2014)

Choler wrote: Were [Clegg] to say that he approved of eating delicious moist chocolate cake I would change my eating habits! Choler wrote: The arch-Tory Daily Mail quotes his ([Nick Clegg's]) son as asking “Why are the students angry with you, Papa?” Well, it’s like this Antonio…your father is a lying [scumsucker] with all the moral integrity of a rabid [stoat], and he and his party are directly responisble for keeping in power a Conservative majority coalition government who are steadily dismantling everything of value in the country. Result of Choler’s first poll. Posted by Choler on February 23, 2011 I asked, whom would you most like to punch in the face and you, my heroic comrade readers, said: 1.Nick Clegg. 30.43% Choler wrote: I hate Nick fucking Clegg! ❋ Choler (2011)