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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.
- The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- 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
- 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
- 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
temperament = usual mood and tendencies
temperament = usual mood and tendencies
temperaments = usual moods and tendencies
temperament = usual mood and tendencies
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