disposition

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We'll see if her cheerful disposition continues when she's tired and under stress.

She is an open-minded senator with a conservative disposition.

Her disposition is to work within whatever guidelines are set. She'll do a great job unless you need a rule breaker to solve this problem.

His disposition had been irritatingly sour lately.  (source) Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976

As far as dispositions go, hers wasn't really enviable, although she had a good record with foster kids in the past.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

Yeah, I swear I've been looking in the rearview mirror and wondering where my babies were and where these three bad-dispositioned, sour-faced, middle-age midgets came from.  (source) Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, 1995

He's a sweet little male with a lovely disposition.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

Because Alexander Rostov could be counted upon to draw his dinner companions into a lively conversation, whatever their dispositions.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

If she's dispositioned like you, I vow I'll just about love her to death.  (source) Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory, 2003

His behavior was due at least partly to Mamaw's disposition.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

He will learn their dispositions and inclinations.  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

She had auburn hair, a curvy figure, a buoyant disposition, a quick mind, and a family cat named Chopper.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

You have told us about the dispositions of your Berlin organization, about its personalities and its agents.†  (source) John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, 1963

We are awaiting the commander's final disposition of the matter.

That August, the Japanese War Ministry would issue a clarification of this order, sending it to all POW camp commanders: At such time as the situation becomes urgent and it be extremely important, the POWs will be concentrated and confined in their present location and under heavy guard the preparation for the final disposition will be made ….  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

The disposition of Michael Oher's application to Briarcrest was Steve Simpson's decision, and normally he would have had no trouble making it: an emphatic, gusty rejection.  (source) Michael Lewis, The Blind Side, 2006

In order to fully protect Miss Cardinal's rights in this matter, we are seeking to have her declared mentally unfit, and to have a guardian appointed so that an orderly disposition of her affairs may be conducted, including this very lucrative offer from Southern Valley.  (source) David Baldacci, Wish You Well, 2001

And we must make our dispositions accordingly. [due to the plague]  (source) Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders, 2001

The press was there in force, but I sensed that they understood, too, that the occasion wasn't particularly momentous or crucial to the disposition of actual events, the real violence and tension, even if they would portray it as such on the evening programs.  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

It is so, with testamentary dispositions.  (source) George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

The first of these dated from ten years back, and consisted of a series of dispositions by which he left the great mass of property to his daughter, with becoming legacies to his two sisters.  (source) Henry James, Washington Square, 1880

And so, making his last dispositions, Captain Crawley ... went through the various items of his little catalogue of effects, striving to see how they might be turned into money for his wife's benefit, in case any accident should befall him.  (source) William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848

I drew it out and was scratching down the directions for these dispositions when the door to the cottage opened.  (source) Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders, 2001

The store is going to close forever. We have not decided on the disposition of the inventory.

The line was busy for the second time so Webb replaced the phone and returned to W. F. Vella's Siam under Rama III to see if the Burmese exchange student had been right about Rama IPs conflict with the sultan of Kedah over the disposition of the island of Penang.  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986

Did you, in any of your previous interviews, ask my client directly about disposition of funds?  (source) J. D. Robb, Glory in Death, 1995

The person or group with the POWER to originate the disposition of honors and salary is more likely to attract than be attracted to the POWER that can only block them.  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

Sherrie wanted to talk about the disposition of certain funds, but John kept joking with her, stalling her with odd cracks and silliness.  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

Frankly, however, I must admit that in this case any other form of disposition would have rendered impossible the carrying out of her wishes. For by her predeceasing her daughter the latter would have come into possession of the property, and...  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

As the couple grew older, they quarrelled more and more often about the ultimate disposition of their 'property.'  (source) Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918

You do not like to hear these things, Vincy, but on this occasion I feel called upon to tell you that I have no motive for furthering such a disposition of property as that which you refer to.  (source) George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

Miss Crawley was now in the habit of writing to Mr. Waxy her solicitor almost every day in the week, for her arrangements respecting her property were all revoked, and her perplexity was great as to the future disposition of her money.  (source) William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848

Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter either penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a matrimonial alliance.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

Was disposition of the troops done in a strategic manner?  (source) Mother Jones

ADDRESS: 2929 Ridgemont Lane FINDING: Suicide DISPOSITION: Deceased  (source) Sharon M. Draper, Tears of a Tiger, 1994

—from a roomful of white men who held in their manicured hands the disposition of armies and atomic bombs, the power to extinguish every life on earth.  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

The first was that the size and disposition of the attacking force could not be accurately estimated and the risk of capture or death outside was too great.  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986

But I disliked him for speaking them: he had spoken as someone who had foreseen it all and had made his dispositions.  (source) V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River, 1979

The line of aircraft coming up on Gruensee from the south was funneled toward it by the disposition of mountains and the track of the sun.  (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

The Serbs stopped firing and stayed their ground, thinking that the engagement was finished, but First Battalion discovered that the route they were taking led to high ground over the enemy dispositions.  (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

I had been commanded to serve at dinner at the Hall that afternoon, and before that I would have to scour the house from bottom to top and then figure on the disposition of Mr. Viccars's effects.  (source) Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders, 2001

Through a powerful telescope chained to a plate in the ceiling so it would not be inadvertently dropped from the window, he showed Alessandro the latest Austrian dispositions, upon which he had become expert.  (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

After their carriage ride, the Lincolns eat dinner with their sons, and then Crook walks the president back to the War Department for a third time, to see if General Sherman has sent a telegraph stating the disposition of his troops in the South.  (source) Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Lincoln, 2011

When we came to the discussion of the sequence of our efforts and of the disposition of our forces, there were new sources of doubt.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

...in all probability, he does not know that such a power exists to us as can sterilize his lairs, so that he cannot use them as of old. We are now so much further advanced in our knowledge as to their disposition that, when we have examined the house in Piccadilly, we may track the very last of them.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed.  (source) Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 1726