They call that vulcanized or galvanized or tempered.
Steel is tempered by heating and then cooling it.
But many men need a warmhearted and good-tempered carnation to be his wife.
All parents soon realise how much of child-rearing is improvisation, tempered by exhaustion.
Thompson always holds his dog in leash as it is not sweet-tempered.
Gerty sparkled too, or at least shone with a tempered radiance.
Though he had a very well-tempered constitution, his hold upon life had lost its firmness.
But this risk will be tempered by the slowdown already afflicting the American economy and heading across the Atlantic.
Her beaky nose, red-rimmed eyes, and feathery pink hat gave her the look of a bad-tempered flamingo.
Even left-wing editorialists in France, quick to sneer at degenerate American capitalism, have tempered their glee.
But the elation was tempered by news that Nelson Mandela, the revered anti-apartheid leader and former South African President, would not attend the ceremony.
There were no mutual concessions; one stood erect, and the others yielded: and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?
The crowd was more restrained during Wednesday's match but aimed abuse and plastic bottles at their own team after they lost the ill-tempered game.
But I chafe at the idea that great American debates, in all their ugliness and splendor, should be tempered for terrorists and their attempts to recruit.
Xiao has been estranged from his roommate and former buddy because he was short-tempered with him for dawdling before leaving for classes.
But the number of job losses were the fewest in the past six months, tempered in part by the federal government's hiring of temporary workers to prepare for the U.S. census next year.
