Norbert, decent and serious, is the temperamental opposite of his fiery compatriot Conan, who thrives on the savagery of trench warfare.

And like most comic pairs, they're temperamental opposites.

Combining Grealy's letters with her own spare prose, Patchett portrays a complicated relationship of temperamental opposites.

Like fire and frost, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were temperamental opposites whom not even George Washington could reconcile.

They were the temperamental opposites of the people who had raised us, this house the opposite of the one we grew up in.

People who have known both Bishop Egan and Cardinal O'Connor say that the two men are temperamental opposites, with very different styles and skills.

McLaren is, in Roxburgh's estimation, 'an old man in his head', which makes him the temperamental opposite of Ferguson.

Using Grealy's vivid letters and her own spare prose, Patchett describes a complicated relationship of temperamental opposites.

The characters are drawn too neatly as sets of temperamental opposites.

When used as writing machines, computers are temperamental opposites of typewriters.