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  • There was Steve, a soft-spoken man with a temperament to match.†   (source)
  • Despite their different temperaments, the two had become friends in recent months.†   (source)
  • If a man, boldest and most intelligent of creatures, won't wander from place to place, a stranger to all, beholden to none, why would an animal, which is by temperament far more conservative?†   (source)
  • Savannah was thoroughly English in style and temperament; Charleston had French and Spanish influences as well as English.†   (source)
  • 'I was just wondering whether Mr Potter has quite the temperament for an Auror?' said Professor Umbridge sweetly.†   (source)
  • I used to wonder what she thought of him, if her reputed silence wasn't due to temperament at all, but due to fear.†   (source)
  • It was not just that she was the baby, it was her temperament—she was never angry or sullen, she was not given to tantrums or to self-pity.†   (source)
  • I don't care for her temperament.†   (source)
  • Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such grave responsibilities.†   (source)
  • The killer felt a stirring of arousal as he recalled the fiery temperament of Leonardo Vetra's daughter.†   (source)
  • It's time-consuming work—takes a certain mind-set—he didn't have the temperament nor the physical hardiness for it.†   (source)
  • I was suffering then (and still do) from moods that kept my head under water (figuratively speaking) and allowed me to see things only from my own perspective, without calmly considering what the others—those whom I, with my mercurial temperament, had hurt or offended—had said, and then acting as they would have done.†   (source)
  • She has the same temperament as Enrique and Lourdes: she is testy, a stubborn fighter who stands her ground.†   (source)
  • As much as possible they try to avoid any huge disparities in intelligence, temperament, social background, and age.†   (source)
  • Usually it's an older woman of kindly temperament and humane politics.†   (source)
  • It has been necessary to forge in you the wise and judicious temperament that will guide you as protector of the Heart Crystal.†   (source)
  • Dogs of every imaginable size and shape and age and temperament.†   (source)
  • I guessed that she knew Ambrose's temperament well enough to know that if she bolted away and embarrassed him, he would make her pay for it later.†   (source)
  • Sometimes his temperament seems as gentle as a sack of gravel, but he's a kind man in his way, as you'll discover.†   (source)
  • Not politics, not a desire for freedom—they don't have the temperament or the intellect for such things.†   (source)
  • But those things, always an integral part of his temperament, had almost wholly ceased.†   (source)
  • Nadia had long been, and would afterwards continue to be, more comfortable with all varieties of movement in her life than was Saeed, in whom the impulse of nostalgia was stronger, perhaps because his childhood had been more idyllic, or perhaps because this was simply his temperament.†   (source)
  • My temperament and how I see myself alter from one minute to the next.†   (source)
  • Walsh's temperament—and his football interests—couldn't have been more different.†   (source)
  • I want to know if they have the temperament.†   (source)
  • You don't know our son's temperament.†   (source)
  • With our rarely changing temperaments, strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways.†   (source)
  • She was tall and well endowed, of a rather helpless and tearful temperament that roused men's ancestral instinct for protection.†   (source)
  • It was a typical small southern town, conservative and white, and not too far removed in temperament from the next town over, Stone Mountain, a longtime headquarters of sorts for the Ku Klux Klan and the site of cross burnings as recently as the late 1980s.†   (source)
  • We like to think of ourselves as autonomous and inner-directed, that who we are and how we act is something permanently set by our genes and our temperament.†   (source)
  • "Lisa has the true artistic temperament," said Georgina.†   (source)
  • Although her temperament lacked grace, she had a rare sensibility for appreciating the things of the world and had a secret tenderness.†   (source)
  • Happily, repeated insulin shock treatments and two weeks in the Dark Room have somewhat improved the patient's temperament.†   (source)
  • Twenty-nine years old, he is a slender man with delicate features, a shy, moody temperament, and astounding physical strength.†   (source)
  • She heard her voice, harsh, like the cry of a bird, and she felt astonished; all her life she'd been known for her calm, had prided herself on her even temperament, her careful choices.†   (source)
  • As you well know, I don't have the temperament to hound people.†   (source)
  • Different habits, different temperaments, different ways of seeing the world.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • I was sullen and dependent on my mother's sole attention, tenderhearted, and whiney: the classic temperament of the artist but without anything to show for my bad character.†   (source)
  • Every child should have a mother of such even temperament, her rare displeasure evidenced so gently that the effect was lasting.†   (source)
  • If Bob was unavailable, then he would rather be alone, for in temperament he was not in the least Mr. Clutter's son but rather Bonnie's child, a sensitive and reticent boy.†   (source)
  • The only pets I'd ever had were a long line of big, fluffy Himalayans with various health problems and nasty temperaments who loved my mother and left hair everywhere.†   (source)
  • Once Therese had denied him anything resembling a favor for a period of four months, which, for a man of Xavier's temperament, was a painful thing.†   (source)
  • Snub-nosed, nine-year-old Pony, whose two front teeth had come in quite too large for his mouth, Pony, with the quick-expanding pupils, and the temperament that would cope ill with disaster, addressed himself gaily to his supper and saw no sorrow anywhere.†   (source)
  • Therefore, let us treat the clan as we would treat the person; let us banish Az Sweldn rak Anhuin from our hearts and minds until they choose to replace Vermund with a grimstborith of a more moderate temperament and until they acknowledge their villainy and repent of it to the clanmeet, even if we must wait a thousand years.†   (source)
  • He had nothing of the look or temperament of a war leader.†   (source)
  • Atlanta—the Imperial City of the KKK's Invisible Empire, in Klan jargon—was also home to Stetson Kennedy, a thirty-year-old man with the bloodlines of a Klansman but a temperament that ran opposite.†   (source)
  • Cooper's face remained a stoic mask, but Max knew this was the result of the man's injuries as much as his temperament.†   (source)
  • But based on the descriptions of Merrill Shortley and Christine Kogut, he had the brutal temperament, and maybe the motive, to commit these vicious murders.†   (source)
  • With hints of pedigree not even remotely possible, her handlers could not speculate on her size or temperament.†   (source)
  • The Took family was still, indeed, accorded a special respect, for it remained both numerous and exceedingly wealthy, and was liable to produce in every generation strong characters of peculiar habits and even adventurous temperament.†   (source)
  • He became a little anxious and, as he returned across the field with Cowslip, did his best to explain something of Fiver's peculiar temperament.†   (source)
  • Ward Butler is big and loud, nothing like his sister, in looks or temperament.†   (source)
  • Like Franklin Sousley, he seemed to lack the temperament of a warrior; he was a sunny jokester, a warmhearted family boy.†   (source)
  • But this is Ignatius, and his temperament has always run a murderous trail.†   (source)
  • Where one fits on the prescriptivist/descriptivist spectrum is probably determined by many factors, including education, temperament, and general outlook on life—and age.†   (source)
  • She looked at the first child closely, his wrists, the shape of his head and the temperament that showed in his eyes and said, "Well.†   (source)
  • When you're stuck together like this, I figure small differences in temperament are bound to show up.†   (source)
  • And, although I had neither the stature nor the temperament for either role, I was expected either to sing "Old Man River" and just keep rolling along, or to do fancy tricks with my muscles.†   (source)
  • Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office.†   (source)
  • Fondly as is possible given your unsuitable temperament, Thomas.†   (source)
  • People said he resembled her, both in looks and — this was a mixed compliment — in temperament.†   (source)
  • Yet I must write papers and articles almost continually, and I have neither the temperament nor the opportunity to dictate.†   (source)
  • One is, after all, only really acquainted with one's own temperament and way of going through life.†   (source)
  • Differences of temperament and outlook had kept them intermittently at war with one another for years.†   (source)
  • She was his own age, but in many ways Catti-brie seemed much older, with a solid inner sense of reality that kept her temperament on an even level.†   (source)
  • She'll walk into the room, beautiful and brilliant, a sexual goddess with the mind of a scholar and an angel's temperament.†   (source)
  • Even at ten years old he'd had a sharp, defensive wit and an acidic temperament.†   (source)
  • God made every child special, with a unique personality and temperament, fears and hopes, likes and dislikes.†   (source)
  • In the pre-computer age, machines were laid out in long rows, each machine tended constantly by one worker who was considered skilled if he knew the temperament of his one, ornery ward.†   (source)
  • I did not return the look with equal measure or with any measure of faith in his basic premise that we shared some immensely suggestive linkage of soul and temperament.†   (source)
  • You need a steady kind of temperament.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: Question of temperament.†   (source)
  • It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness.†   (source)
  • Peters seldom interrupted, seldom asked a question or made a comment, but when he did, he displayed a technical curiosity and expertise which entirely accorded with Leamas' own temperament.†   (source)
  • The slizzard was the common mount-a scaled creature with snakelike neck, many teeth, dubious lineage, brief life span and a vicious temperament; the horse, for some reason, having grown barren in recent generations.†   (source)
  • I suppose I was exercising as early as then the turn of mind, the nature of temperament, of a privileged observer; and owing to the way I became so, it turned out that I became the loving kind.†   (source)
  • For if Hodge was by temperament a mender, a servant of substance, Ben was a dreamer, a poet, an occasional visiting preacher at country churches from here to good news where.†   (source)
  • I used to think of this feeling of insecurity as a weakness, a failing of my own temperament, and I would have been ashamed if anyone had found out about it.†   (source)
  • Peyton was a tidy and thoughtful little girl, in looks and temperament much like her mother.†   (source)
  • Not only did he forgive him his lack of manners, which he regarded as the expressions of a genuinely revolutionary temperament, but he delighted in his insolence as an infatuated woman may be pleased by the arrogant ways of a masterful lover.†   (source)
  • So I was backed up by long-range weapons ancient and ultramodern in the hands of people who knew how to use them and temperament to match—the latter being the more important.†   (source)
  • And his own belligerent temperament soon destroyed any hope that Congress might now join hands in carrying out Lincoln's policies of permitting the South to resume its place in the Union with as little delay and controversy as possible.†   (source)
  • But somewhere, somehow, they respected each other, in spite of their difference in temperament—perhaps because they shared the same life, after all?†   (source)
  • The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.   (source)
  • Others I intuitively judged to lack the necessary temperament for the arduous task at hand.†   (source)
  • Agnes was of a religious temperament, although kindhearted and helpful.†   (source)
  • She has an even temperament and bright eyes.†   (source)
  • The Congo River, being of a different temperament, drowned most of its conquerors outright.†   (source)
  • A helmet and a sword could do wondrous things to a young man's temperament.†   (source)
  • I needed to be sure of his temperament as much as his stamina.†   (source)
  • Kierkegaard, like Kant, drew attention first and foremost to human temperament.†   (source)
  • And there was the dog's personality, which was distinct from its temperament.†   (source)
  • There is a difference in build, as well as temperament.†   (source)
  • Teacher Xiao was a happy man with a quick temperament.†   (source)
  • So you'd kill it because of its temperament?†   (source)
  • The parents may be one of the best indications of the future temperament of your new puppy.†   (source)
  • 'Magnificent bloodlines ...even temperament.'†   (source)
  • Their looks, though, were as distinct and different as their temperaments.†   (source)
  • Like you could tell with a glance, somehow judge their temperament or hardiness.†   (source)
  • Does enough of your body's native temperament linger to give you enjoyment of the horror?†   (source)
  • Arthur Lee was known for his "mercurial temperament."†   (source)
  • And you have to have a certain temperament.†   (source)
  • And once a man is rich, when he has the temperament of a Slatter, he gets richer and richer.†   (source)
  • Mundt's appearance was fully consistent with his temperament.†   (source)
  • It wasn't only outside pressures, or my solitude and my temperament.†   (source)
  • "I believe you when you say that your husband was a man of disagreeable temperament," he resumed, fixing Mariam with his bespectacled eyes, his gaze both stern and compassionate.†   (source)
  • She had gone to a school that emphasized rote memorization, for which she was by temperament particularly ill-suited, and so she spent a great deal of time doodling in the margins of her textbooks and notebooks, hunched over to hide curlicues and miniature woodland universes from the eyes of her teachers.†   (source)
  • And now—in my very own English Department—I must endure a woman of an apparently similar temperament, a woman whose prickly disposition is also upheaved in a sea of sexual contradictions ...Eleanor Pribst!†   (source)
  • I would have received the Governor General's Academic Medal, the University of Toronto's highest undergraduate award, of which no small number of illustrious Canadians have been recipients, were it not for a beef-eating pink boy with a neck like a tree trunk and a temperament of unbearable good cheer.†   (source)
  • The house is a stone one, and chilly and damp; but by temperament — it must be the old New Englander in him — Simon feels a certain contempt for material self-indulgence; and as a medical student he became habituated to a monkish austerity, and to working long hours under difficult conditions.†   (source)
  • The Count was something of a natural-born host and in the hour that ensued, as he topped a glass here and sparked a conversation there, he had an instinctive awareness of all the temperaments in the room.†   (source)
  • He copied the model of a prewar German zeppelin, which lifted off by means of a hot-air system and could accommodate one or more passengers endowed with adventurous temperaments.†   (source)
  • She was—is—a woman of enormous will, a woman without apology, and not a woman with whom you want to have a dispute—though I have never really understood, even now, whether her temperament was God-given or one she adopted out of necessity, what with her husband dying barely a year into their marriage and leaving her to raise me all on her own.†   (source)
  • But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid And Mariam was afraid She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies and sometimes not.†   (source)
  • But it's Martin-Lothaire who's turning out to be the darkest of my sons, in complexion and temperament.†   (source)
  • His legendary pursuit of excellence and his moderate temperament made dancers work beyond their usual physical limitations.†   (source)
  • Understand his temperament.†   (source)
  • Not temperament, which they broke down into individual behaviors and assessed, and not physical qualities, which were easily measured, but how the dog combined all these things, for the whole of every dog was always greater than the sum of its parts.†   (source)
  • The club's breed standard states: "True Labrador retriever temperament is as much a hallmark of the breed as the 'otter' tail.†   (source)
  • He was a small man with an even temperament, and he often watched our classes and occasionally taught us.†   (source)
  • It's because they tried to go and do it all for themselves over there, and don't have the temperament.†   (source)
  • First, by beginning your breeding program with dogs you found "excellent in temperament and structure" but of unpedigreed stock, you have made attaining your objective—and I admit I don't fully understand it—immeasurably harder.†   (source)
  • Eragon took a minute to collect himself and consider everything he knew about Arya: her likes and dislikes, her habits and mannerisms, the important events of her life, what she feared and what she hoped for, and most importantly, her underlying temperament—that which dictated her approach to life ....and to fighting.†   (source)
  • As an academic psychologist, I know that people have different temperaments, and if we are prevented from coping in our own way, be it "positive" or "negative," we function less well.†   (source)
  • Change your temperament around.†   (source)
  • The differences in physique, background, manner, and temperament could hardly have been more contrasting.†   (source)
  • There are many kinds of demons, my friends, and we are just as varied in our types and temperaments as humans.†   (source)
  • Another professor at the school said that her commitment and intelligence were indeed high, but "her temperament is the truly extraordinary thing about Kate."†   (source)
  • Taking Max's arm, Skeedle walked him over to the mules, explaining their individual temperaments and quirks.†   (source)
  • I myself am pretty much Aristotelian in this sense, preferring to find the Buddha in the quality of the facts around me, but Phaedrus was clearly a Platonist by temperament and when the classes shifted to Plato he was greatly relieved.†   (source)
  • An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books, but from what I have learned from experience.†   (source)
  • Cabbage basked in his son's fame, but Kathryn—closer to her son in temperament—worried about appearing immodest.†   (source)
  • His defects were perceived to be a certain "nervous temperament" and susceptibility to poor health, impetuousness, and acute sensitivity to criticism.†   (source)
  • I shouldn't have let the Seeker's taunt bother me; she clearly didn't have the temperament to go anywhere slowly.†   (source)
  • I didn't have the temperament.†   (source)
  • It is best to acknowledge this, to accept it, and to admire the diversity of temperaments Nature has dealt us.†   (source)
  • Apparently to find room in the sun for a reality of Quality he would have to fight and overcome the head of his own committee, whose Aristotelian outlook made it impossible even to get started and whose temperament appeared to be extremely intolerant of opposing ideas.†   (source)
  • Brave, popular "Old Put" might be the man to boost morale, but he had neither the experience nor the temperament to direct so large a force under such conditions and was thus a poor choice, as Washington seems to have realized almost at once.†   (source)
  • The news of this wish did not sit well with Chandler Johnson, whose temperament was every bit as fiery as Howlin' Mad's.†   (source)
  • Untrained in diplomacy and by temperament seemingly so unsuited for it, he had indeed succeeded brilliantly, as others and history would attest.†   (source)
  • And however striking their differences in temperament or political philosophy, they were, without exception, men dedicated primarily to seeing the American experiment succeed.†   (source)
  • I believe, in short, we are equally beholden to heart and mind, and that those who have particularly passionate temperaments and questioning minds leave the world a different place for their having been there.†   (source)
  • He made a study of Dutch ways and temperament, read deeply in Dutch history, searching out ever more volumes in Amsterdam's numerous well-stocked bookshops.†   (source)
  • Long a man of decided temperament, Adams was as determined as he had ever been to maintain the policy of neutrality established by Washington, while refusing to submit to any indignities or to sacrifice American honor—he was determined, in essence, to fulfill his own inaugural promises.†   (source)
  • With the same vitality he had once brought to the courtrooms of Massachusetts and the floor of Congress, he championed the right of American fishermen, citing articles from treaties past and explaining in detail the migratory patterns of the cod, not to say the temperament of seafaring New Englanders.†   (source)
  • His current friends—Sewall, Richard Cranch, Parson Anthony Wibird—were to be his friends to the last, despite drastic changes in circumstance, differing temperaments, eccentricities, or politics.†   (source)
  • Then this is the first time a son of Amber has ever said such a thing, and I attribute it to your poetic temperament.†   (source)
  • If you live as active a life as I know you will—from your temperament—you are most unlikely to die of old age.†   (source)
  • Ah, it isn't a matter of individuals, of being alike or different in temperament, of loving or not loving!†   (source)
  • If you had a true romantic temperament, you'd have come here at night, climbed to my bedroom window on a ladder, and begged me to give you my telephone number," she whispered.†   (source)
  • MY TEMPERAMENT and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to remain at his private remove.†   (source)
  • One projected onto the indifferent breezes—onto the indifferent greens or the softness of snow—the absurdities of one's human temperament—beauty, holiness, truth.†   (source)
  • If the insecurity I felt about our position on the coast was due to my temperament, then little occurred to calm me down.†   (source)
  • And the temperament of both Bigger and Bessie kept it out.†   (source)
  • He thought it well expressed, besides which it made some appeal to his own temperament.†   (source)
  • AMANDA [lightly]: Temperament like a Metropolitan star!†   (source)
  • Helen veered in the wind of hysteria, the strong uncertain tides of her temperament.†   (source)
  • He was of an impatient temperament, you comprehend.†   (source)
  • But you have a gift of getting along with these temperaments.†   (source)
  • Being so solitary, its people were sombre in temperament, fierce and fanatical in religion, celebrated the Passion Week by cross-bearings and bloody scourgings.†   (source)
  • But then if you had the other temperament, which must have praise, which must have encouragement, naturally you began (and she knew that Mr. Ramsay was beginning) to be uneasy; to want somebody to say, Oh, but your work will last, Mr. Ramsay, or something like that.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Now, I argued, if this amiable failing had been merely the result of temperament and not of necessity, why did it come on her all at once?†   (source)
  • A queen's ransom of temperament.†   (source)
  • One docs not necessarily get rid of that kind of temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms.†   (source)
  • She met that criticism as her temperament dictated, with docility and diffidence, or with anger and emphasis.†   (source)
  • It was the tragic flaw of her temperament to get to the vital point too late: she pursed her lips thoughtfully, wandered off in another direction, and wept when misfortune came.†   (source)
  • He didn't know whether to be grateful to Luter for softening the harsh, inflexible edge of his father's temperament, or to be uneasy.†   (source)
  • What gulf of years stretched between him and that other time, what deed of thought and action, what difference in temperament?†   (source)
  • A man of a passionate, fiery temperament, he flung himself wholeheartedly into the task assigned him.†   (source)
  • It appeared that all along there had been, deep in her temperament, a core of cheerfulness, which must have fuelled her long fight against A-bomb lassitude, something warmer and more vivifying than mere submission, than saying, "Shikata ga-nai."†   (source)
  • It is true that I enclosed that world in another made by my own temperament; it is true that from the beginning I had many adventures outside that world; and often went far from it; and kept much back from it; but there it always was, the common life of the family, very merry, very stirring, crowded with people; and she was the centre; it was herself.†   (source)
  • People said she had "made" me, but she herself took credit only for supplying me with a congenial background; she had firm faith in my genius and in the "artistic temperament, " and in the principle that things done on the sly are not really done at all.†   (source)
  • It might be presumed that such temperaments, which usually manifest themselves in early youth and persist through life, show a singular defect of vital force.†   (source)
  • No, I had to deal with a very different stamp of man-a man with a boyish temperament (witness the schoolboy-type letters and the railway guide), an attractive man to women, and a man with a ruthless disregard for human life, a man who was necessarily a prominent person in one of the crimes!†   (source)
  • That is the act of a man driven almost crazy with a frenzied hate-it suggests rather the Latin temperament.†   (source)
  • And in a way, because that was her schooling temperament, I suspect she was pleased that I should see where it led to give your affections too easily.†   (source)
  • If his wife suffers from gastritis, and is inclined to be of a hysterical temperament, the fat is in the fire.†   (source)
  • I should hesitate to share them with others if I saw in them nothing but the pathological fancies of a single and isolated case of a diseased temperament.†   (source)
  • Apart from their complete difference in appearance, David soon observed that his mother and Aunt were worlds apart in temperament.†   (source)
  • But then, one of Ashley's unselfish temperament goes about the world doing so many good deeds that you can't expect him to remember all of them.†   (source)
  • Besides, little Joseph had been away from home much of the time, up on the farm in the Volvic mountains with his grandfather, where the air was especially pure, and the country quiet salutary for a child of nervous temperament.†   (source)
  • Evidence against him or suspicious circumstances-None, except that weapon used might be said to suit his temperament ( VideM.†   (source)
  • From childhood, they had been exact opposites in temperament and they had been further estranged by his objections to the manner in which she had reared Charles— "Making a damn sissy out of a soldier's son!†   (source)
  • I suspected (and my aunt, who unlike me is the very reverse of an intellectual person, suspected very much the same thing)—I suspected that the man was ailing, ailing in the spirit in some way, or in his temperament or character, and I shrank from him with the instinct of the healthy.†   (source)
  • He had kind of an oriental, bestowing temperament; he had no peace or rest if he ever lacked dough and would sooner beat a check altogether than go out of a lunchwagon without leaving a good tip.†   (source)
  • The former seemed to be merely the result of weariness on a naturally high-strung temperament; the latter, the result of strain, of inner maladjustment.†   (source)
  • All her art and the whole task she set herself lay in extracting the utmost delight from the senses she had been endowed with, and from her particular figure, her color, her hair, her voice, her skin, her temperament; and in employing every faculty, every curve and line and every softest modeling of her body to find responsive perceptions in her lovers and to conjure up in them an answering quickness of delight.†   (source)
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