All 13 Uses of
temperament
in
Man And Superman
- But you must not expect me to adopt your inexplicable, fantastic, petulant, fastidious ways: you must take me as I am, a reasonable, patient, consistent, apologetic, laborious person, with the temperament of a schoolmaster and the pursuits of a vestryman.†
Chpt Ded.
- The only moral force you condescend to parade is the force of your wit: the only demand you make in public is the demand of your artistic temperament for symmetry, elegance, style, grace, refinement, and the cleanliness which comes next to godliness if not before it.†
Chpt Ded.
- The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations, or in philosophic systems, is not the main world at all: it is only the self-consciousness of certain abnormal people who have the specific artistic talent and temperament.†
Chpt Ded.
- Faulconbridge, Coriolanus, Leontes are admirable descriptions of instinctive temperaments: indeed the play of Coriolanus is the greatest of Shakespear's comedies; but description is not philosophy; and comedy neither compromises the author nor reveals him.†
Chpt Ded.
- I tell you, this is the most staggering blow that has ever fallen on a man of my age and temperament.†
Chpt 1
- She had humor; she had intellect; she could cook to perfection; and her highly strung temperament made her uncertain, incalculable, variable, capricious, cruel, in a word, enchanting.†
Chpt 3
- Why, sir, do you not join us, and leave a sphere for which your temperament is too sympathetic, your heart too warm, your capacity for enjoyment too generous?†
Chpt 3
- Let us be just, Commander: it is a question of temperament.†
Chpt 3
- I don't admire the heavenly temperament: I don't understand it: I don't know that I particularly want to understand it; but it takes all sorts to make a universe.†
Chpt 3
- The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.
Chpt 3 *temperament = usual mood and tendencies
- The poetic temperament's a very nice temperament, very amiable, very harmless and poetic, I daresay; but it's an old maid's temperament.†
Chpt 3
- The poetic temperament's a very nice temperament, very amiable, very harmless and poetic, I daresay; but it's an old maid's temperament.†
Chpt 3
- The poetic temperament's a very nice temperament, very amiable, very harmless and poetic, I daresay; but it's an old maid's temperament.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(temperament as in: it is her temperament) usual mood and tendencies