noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a forceful personality/character/opponent etc
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He gained a reputation as a forceful member of the party.
a personality disorder (= that stops someone behaving in a normal way )
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The study suggested that 84% of prisoners have a personality disorder.
a sports personality (= someone who is famous for playing sport )
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The event will be opened by a well-known sports personality.
flamboyant style/character/personality
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his flamboyant style of play
multiple personality
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multiple personality disorder
personality cult
personality type (= with a particular type of character )
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personality/character traits
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a mental illness associated with particular personality traits
split personality
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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The interplay of these very different personalities with Beckett's mercurial temperament results in fascinating and varied music.
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Again, they may have been one Goddess whose different sides became assigned to different personalities .
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Vyner, as he was known, was a very different personality from his father.
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You have to have good hosts, guys with different backgrounds and personalities .
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It would finally make her into a different personality .
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His correspondence revealed a very different personality than what detectives had described.
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I've had a series of producers, all with very different personalities .
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Actually, we both have different personalities , and we are totally different people.
forceful
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Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf was undoubtedly a most forceful personality .
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In contrast to Burt, Bob was a big man whose height and girth substantiated his forceful , dominant personality .
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But through her looks and forceful personality she quickly became Britain's best known actress of the 50's.
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She was a forceful personality who did not suffer fools gladly, but her sternness was accompanied by grace and Victorian courtesy.
human
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Idleness is at root alien to human personality .
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But the human personality of a particular body is not superfluous when we fall in love with some one whose body it is.
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Abraham Maslow has drawn up a model of seven motivational needs, all of which are basic to human personality .
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Whereas human personality is present in bodies, divine personality is present in what is inanimate also.
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Politicians rarely change sides unless their instinct is purely one of self-preservation, human personalities remain predictably the same.
individual
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Judge them by their product and not their individual personalities .
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But the current penchant for mixing styles has placed new importance on that special little table with an individual personality .
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Despite this the finale still manages to ride on a wave bigger than any individual personality , bigger than the music itself.
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The psychological counterpart is an acknowledgement of the many aspects of an individual personality .
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Firstly, children should be able to establish reasons why there are individual differences in personality traits and emotional reactions.
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General rules are difficult to give because each disciplinary encounter is unique, given the specific circumstances and the individual personalities involved.
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Secondly, the impact of individual personality traits are considered.
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At local level, control exerted by NGOs varies widely, depending on their philosophy, their economic clout, and individual personalities .
legal
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The distinctive attributes of the company, separate legal personality and limited liability, are beyond the reach of private agreement.
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Unlike a company, a partnership possesses no legal personality separate from the partners that comprise it.
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Agency and partnership Agency may be regarded as an extension of legal personality .
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The property of a partnership belongs to all the partners in common, since the partnership itself has no legal personality .
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This theory treats the company as an artificial entity whose separate legal personality is granted as a privilege by the state.
multiple
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On one end is daydreaming, on the other, multiple personality .
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He pulls the old multiple personality excuse.
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Austin would apparently give Mach, said to be free of AT&T code, multiple personalities like OS/2 or OSF/1.
political
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Some or the political personalities saw it as a new political pressure point on the Westminster government.
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Television, a medium of hits and stars, turns political personalities into national celebrities comparable to entertainment stars.
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A political personality does not necessarily have to be eloquent or even verbally articulate to come across well on the television screen.
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For Barber, key personality traits define each of the four types of political personality.
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This last question is at the heart of the disagreement about the value of such political personality studies.
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Recent analyses of the political personality of top leaders often take a more explicitly psychoanalytic perspective.
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Barber acknowledges that political personality is not deterministic in a strict sense.
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The most focused research on political personality has studied top political leaders.
powerful
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Although she remained a strong, happy, powerful personality everything about her seemed transformed.
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The similarities in their powerful personalities and political activism are obvious.
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It was Alain's presence, his powerful personality , his devastating masculinity.
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Their keen intellects and powerful personalities could spark off more than just brilliant ideas at times.
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Berton was a powerful personality , a cocksure businessman with a fast-talking line in hard sell.
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Roman came into the room and it seemed to shrink before his powerful personality .
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It may well be that risk-taking companies are managed by risk-taking individuals with powerful personalities .
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If the figure was too high, many future decisions could still be influenced by powerful personalities .
split
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As tonight attests, a tape of two halves was the product of a band with a split personality .
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Schizophrenia is classified as a functional psychosis and split personality as a dissociative hysterical neurosis, as different as tonsillitis and appendicitis.
strong
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Azhag was not entirely Azhag any more, the immeasurably strong personality of Nagash was gradually eating him away.
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But none had to manage so many strong personalities and get so many others to understand their roles.
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Plas Newydd is dominated by his strong personality .
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Yes, I have a strong personality .
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Always the strong personalities had great power of influence.
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The battle between Beck and Mackenzie, two strong and stubborn personalities , was over, at least for the moment.
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Even allowing for these limitations, Smythson's is the strongest architectural personality to have survived from the Elizabethan and Jacobean age.
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The heavily favored Cowboys dominated the news with their strong personalities and big egos.
■ NOUN
change
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She's well regarded, except at times in her local supermarket where Phyllis occasionally undergoes something of a personality change .
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Although the patients could leave the asylum, they often demonstrated some personality changes .
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The loss of spontaneity and initiative may be accompanied by personality changes , anxiety and restlessness, particularly around tea time.
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Even more disconcerting were the personality changes .
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And the trauma had caused personality changes which made him irritable and difficult to live with.
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But for me the agent for personality change is not hormonal.
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He may suffer a severe personality change from which he might not recover.
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Two members, however, seem to have undergone a major personality change .
characteristic
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Eysenck's theory depends on a high correlation between criminality and particular personality characteristics identified by personality tests.
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What personality characteristics do you think are desirable in a political leader?
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During the first few years of life, enduring personality characteristics are established.
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Psychologists have never had much success at defining which personality characteristics are inherited in humans and which are not.
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But in fact lawyers vary all over the lot in their personality characteristics .
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Other event-producing situations are unrelated to an individual's approach to life or personality characteristics .
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There are also personality characteristics which are manifested both as strengths and weaknesses.
clash
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But it is not just this personality clash that is driving Solidarity-as-we-know-it to extinction.
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There is talk of personality clashes , and sniping against the campaign chairman, Tony Coelho.
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Blaming a personality clash within the department for her ultimatum, she said she would resume work when her back was better.
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Where there is a personality clash , the learner should be re-allocated to another clinical teacher.
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They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity.
cult
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Propping up the world's most enduring dictator is a slavish personality cult , and rigid control of the nation.
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But at no time is this conditioning of mild hysteria and personality cult a wholesome thing.
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However, Nyerere was said to be personally opposed to this kind of personality cult , and eventually the policy was changed.
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It was also a result of the growth of the press, which delighted in personality cults .
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I don't agree with people who say it was just a leadership personality cult effort.
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Mr Koizumi is the centre of a virtual personality cult in his homeland, with support ratings of almost 90 %.
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The Sicilian tyrants did not, however, take the personality cult as far as the successors of Alexander.
disorder
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And they were shocked to hear at the end of the three-month trial that Allitt suffered from a dangerous personality disorder .
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Defense psychiatrist George Woods diagnosed Davis as suffering three specific personality disorders .
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Other studies suggest that personality disorders are relatively uncommon in anorexia nervosa.
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Typically, psychological problems and personality disorders compound as obesity creates a different view of reality.
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This personality disorder is characterised by a lack of guilt and an inability to keep rules or form lasting relationships.
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Psychologist Lenore Walker argued for eliminating personality disorders altogether because of bias.
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She is an elderly lady, she has had one stroke, and she has a personality disorder .
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If Atlanta were a person, a psychologist might well render a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder .
radio
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But the scenery was not all friendly here where conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh grew up.
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We have a number of radio personalities on public broadcasting who write books.
television
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One embarrassing experience involved Jan Leeming, the television personality , who was taking part in a film I was producing.
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In this story, the crows represent different television personalities .
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One well-known television personality is said to be rather hard on the teleprompter operators.
test
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Eysenck's theory depends on a high correlation between criminality and particular personality characteristics identified by personality tests .
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They were also given personality tests , since some studies have found an association between susceptibility to infections and personality type.
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Personality is an area of subjectivity he avoids, despite the proliferation of personality tests .
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Ask him if he would mind taking a personality test .
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They do not judge personality , nor do they use personality tests .
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On the following trip, 1 interviewed every-one who worked with Ed and asked him to take a series of personality tests .
trait
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Is it associated with remediable personality traits ?
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Initially, they defined the personality traits of those with this syndrome: Authoritarians are extremely conventional in their attitudes and morality.
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For Barber, key personality traits define each of the four types of political personality.
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What are the personality traits of Chemical Dependency?
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As a result, they are unable ever to get beyond the personality traits they find irritating.
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Secondly, the impact of individual personality traits are considered.
type
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State institutions, we should remember, can change a good deal faster than child-rearing regimes or basic personality types .
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They were also given personality tests, since some studies have found an association between susceptibility to infections and personality type .
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This is concerned with groupings based upon personality types , including life styles.
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No particular personality type seemed to predominate.
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A particular personality type is said to be favoured: those with good listening skills who will implement party decisions without question.
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Below are a few of the personality types which are the result of habit and conditioning.
■ VERB
develop
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I felt we had to find and develop talk personalities who could be entertaining as well as erudite.
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Every one of these older persons is a fully developed personality .
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He developed the classic personality of the tycoon: huge ambition combined with enormous charm and total ruthlessness.
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Do you have to develop a personality well-suited to golf to become good at golf?
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They have excellent, fully developed personalities and even interact with each other and their environments.
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But we are given no clues as to why some people should develop such personality traits.
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Through the integration of feminine role learning with self-definition, housekeeping behaviours tend to be developed as personality functions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
magnetic personality/charm etc
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Among them was Christopher Hitchens, the Washington-based writer, a figure of magnetic charm and great volubility.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sports personality
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Billie Holiday or Bessie Smith had more personality than a hundred of today's pop singers.
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Dotty was a smart, good-looking 17-year-old with a lively personality .
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Everyone loves her for her cheerful personality .
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For years she was one of the best-loved personalities in the newspaper gossip columns.
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It's true he can be emotional at times but that's just part of his personality .
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Radio personality Don Imus has gotten in trouble again for what he said on the air.
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The disease causes memory loss, often leading to changes in behavior and personality .
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The Senator is a good, reliable man, but he lacks personality .
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There are three islands off the coast, each with its own personality .
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This election should be about issues and policies, not about the personalities of the candidates!
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Yes, he's got plenty of talent and ambition, but he's got no personality .
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Yun has a lovely, warm personality .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Closely allied to the fundamental fear-complex within the personality is violence.
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Inside of her 4-10, 90-pound body was a lively personality and incredible desire.
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Most are Type A personalities, very outgoing, although a few are very shy and express themselves through their cars.
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Plas Newydd is dominated by his strong personality .
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Relationships in a single policy area also vary over time according to the issues and personalities involved.
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The critics held him in high esteem as an actor, and the fans adored him for his outrageous and boozy personality .
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This information is important in understanding the circumstances and influences on the development of the client's personality and belief systems.
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What type of personality do you have?