Sample sentences for PHLEGMATIC

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showing little emotion

She views him as phlegmatic and dull, but I think of him as steady and unflappable.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The Sirens of Titan
No sign of astonishment appeared on Emil's phlegmatic face.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
She said "Good morning, Miss," in her usual phlegmatic and brief manner; and taking up another ring and more tape, went on with her sewing.
Bronte, Charlotte -- Jane Eyre
They seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
They had not got us; they might have got something better worth having; and your phlegmatic attitude suggested what.
Hornung, E. W. -- A Thief in the Night
"As I am a sinner," exclaimed Asa, usually one of the most phlegmatic of the youths, "the girl is blown away by the wind"...
Cooper, James Fenimore -- The Prairie
He was phlegmatic, stolid to such a degree that one could not but wonder how the Revolution had any meaning to him at all.
London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
murmured the doctor, who had recovered all his phlegmatic coolness.
Verne, Jules -- Five Weeks in a Balloon
Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr.
Verne, Jules -- Around The World In Eighty Days
Where and how did we get the idea that the Germans are a stolid, phlegmatic race?
Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
was the phlegmatic reply; and my appearance prevented further discussion.
Bronte, Anne -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man
The PLAYER is phlegmatic.
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
It transported its great, lumbering bulk with more than railroad speed, and set itself phlegmatically down on whatever spot she glanced at.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
Thenardier, masterful and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques Rousseau did even better!"
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
But that is just how it is, sometimes, especially in cases like the present one, with the decisions of the most precise and phlegmatic people.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for him.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
"Be enlightened!" said Athos, phlegmatically.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Ed, who for a cowboy was somewhat phlegmatic, calmly made ready for another attempt.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars

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