She is confident, short-fused, and will do anything to protect innocent life.

Dallas had given the impression of being short-fused and itchy-fingered.

Seemed like it wasn't just them; everyone seemed short-fused lately.

The challenge for Stevens will be keeping his famously short-fused temper in check.

Through Thursday, stressed-out shoppers and short-fused clerks will be the order of the day.

If he was, then Marek was more dangerous than a short-fused bomb.

In his six seasons as a major leaguer, Ethier has developed a reputation for being short-fused.

One is a short-fused 25-year-old Australian with a penchant for night life and building the body beautiful, not always tandem pursuits.

William is a good boy usually, better behaved than his short-fused father, but he'd had enough of Wisley almost before he'd arrived.

Essential Quote: "You are a hard-drinking, short-fused, mess of a woman."

He commiserates with the leather-lunged, short-fused Green.

Unfortunately, neatly constructed though it is, the play's subdued comic rhythms feel alien to our short-fused 21st-century sensibilities.

Is your child sweet, adaptable and well-functioning, or short-fused, clingy and irritable?

It's a part that calls for some histrionics; daft and short-fused, Terry does not go gently into that bad marriage.

Susan, according to Chaplin, is a "slightly racy," short-fused blonde with a suicidal inheritance from her father; she also has two daughters.

He changed, became moody, sneaky... but also short-fused, testy, self-absorbed, full of himself.

He stands extremely still, like a reptile ready to strike, and proves a disturbingly calm adversary for the short-fused Kirk.

He took Wilde's viewpoint of the young man in love, and a spontaneous killing by a man whose passion exploded through a short-fused temper.

Stuck with an overbearing, short-fused boss, he set up a meeting with him and asked if he could have someone else supervise him.

Overcrowding is a huge problem many prisons face because handling so many short-fused inmates at once can lead to many altercations.

Scary and volatile, the short-fused Begbie rivets attention while also defining the limits of Renton's universe.

"You can turn everything into a vaudeville routine if you want," his blase nurse tells the short-fused Willie after he suffers an inevitable heart attack.

His anger, short-fused, flared.