Sample sentences for TEMPERAMENT

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Definition

usual mood and tendencies

She has the experience, temperament, and judgment for the job.

temperament = character resulting in mood and tendencies

She has a careful, sensitive temperament. She tends to look before she leaps.

temperament = usual mood and tendencies

The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman

temperament = usual mood and tendencies

But we are now learning that a strain of rice that grows in one place will not grow in another; that factories that produce at 100 percent in one nation produce less than half as much in a society where temperaments and work habits are somewhat different.
Gerald R. Ford -- A War That is Finished

temperaments = usual moods and tendencies

A dead mouse here makes an insect imbalance there, a population disproportion later, a bad harvest further on, a depression, mass starvation, and finally, a change in social temperament in far-flung countries.
Ray Bradbury -- A Sound of Thunder

temperament = usual mood and tendencies

And the temperament of both Bigger and Bessie kept it out.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
"Ah!" said Gringoire, " 'tis because his father and mother were fantastic people who made him of a taciturn temperament."
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Cooper's face remained a stoic mask, but Max knew this was the result of the man's injuries as much as his temperament.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
His unhappy temperament was like a cage; he could never get out of it; and he felt that other people, his wife in particular, must have put him there.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
WILL-O'-THE-WISP My reverence, I hope, will me enable To curb my temperament unstable; For zigzag courses we are wont to keep.
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
He stood to watch them saddle Gonzo, asking Joe all about him, how old the pony was, how many hands, whether paints had a special kind of temperament.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
Every child should have a mother of such even temperament, her rare displeasure evidenced so gently that the effect was lasting.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
It has been necessary to forge in you the wise and judicious temperament that will guide you as protector of the Heart Crystal.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
But this is Ignatius, and his temperament has always run a murderous trail.
Heather Brewer -- Tenth Grade Bleeds
Melanie's soft voice, tinged with indignation, went on and on as she told of the recent outburst of temperament on the part of the Lady Harpists.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Yet I must write papers and articles almost continually, and I have neither the temperament nor the opportunity to dictate.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
'I was just wondering whether Mr Potter has quite the temperament for an Auror?' said Professor Umbridge sweetly.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
She has the same temperament as Enrique and Lourdes: she is testy, a stubborn fighter who stands her ground.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
At the same time, the visible rite of baptism appealed strongly to their mystic temperament.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
Animal dose is partly body weight and partly temperament.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park

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