hot-headed

Example Sentences

• "Bat who will the next Democratic President be? Harry A. Wise? The eloquent Virginian is hotter-headed than we are. We have no objection to him, however. A radical lawyer very often makes a conservative judge, and the peace of nations is never securer than when a great soldier bears his hand upon the helm of State."
• "They were hard now with frost, sodden with autumn rains, and looked black, mourning, and desolate, as the unhappy fate which had befallen one of the best and noblest hearted, yet hottest-headed men that ever loved the sunlight, and at all times, unless under great excitement, God’s dumb creatures."
• "He told me how he compelled Capt. Anderson and the Secretary of the Interior to yield to his imperious demands for the privilege of bearing arms in the Park and going where he pleased. (Capt. Anderson’s account of this is a shade different. I haven’t heard from the Secretary of the Interior.) Young Wittich was hotter-headed than his father, who held the same beliefs, but was temperate in them. Young Wittich said the soldiers ought to be abolished and was of the belief that the Cooke City road must be built through the Park peaceably if it could, by force if it must."
• "Mercedes Armitage befriended me when I was younger and hotter-headed than I am now."
• "He [Robert Chilton] added, however, that “some of the hottest-headed guys I’ve seen have been docs. They don’t like to lose.” That may be attributable to the inner drive physicians need to get through college, medical school, internships, and residencies."
• "John counseled that I proceed cautiously, hear Hy out before making any judgments. This coming from my brother, who had once been the hottest-headed bar fighter in San Diego County."