All 10 Uses
temperament
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
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- To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume; there was a real joy in that—perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.... He was a marvellous type, too, this lad, whom by so curious a chance he had met in Basil's studio; or could be fashioned into a marvellous type, at any rate.†
Chpt 3temperament = usual mood and tendencies
- He felt that the eyes of Dorian Gray were fixed on him, and the consciousness that amongst his audience there was one whose temperament he wished to fascinate, seemed to give his wit keenness, and to lend colour to his imagination.†
Chpt 3
- Still, there are certain temperaments that marriage makes more complex.†
Chpt 6 *temperaments = usual moods and tendencies
- But the artistic temperament that they create, or at any rate reveal, is still more to me.†
Chpt 9temperament = usual mood and tendencies
- Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament.†
Chpt 10
- The hero, the wonderful young Parisian, in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.†
Chpt 11temperaments = usual moods and tendencies
- It was the creation of such worlds as these that seemed to Dorian Gray to be the true object, or amongst the true objects, of life; and in his search for sensations that would be at once new and delightful, and possess that element of strangeness that is so essential to romance, he would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature, abandon himself to their subtle influences, and then, having, as it were, caught their colour and satisfied his intellectual curiosity, leave them with that curious indifference that is not incompatible with a real ardour of temperament, and that indeed, according to certain modern psychologists, is often a condition of it.†
Chpt 11temperament = usual mood and tendencies
- Had he something of her temperament in him?†
Chpt 11
- Yet one had ancestors in literature, as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious.†
Chpt 11
- With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so.†
Chpt 18temperaments = usual moods and tendencies
Definitions:
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(1)
(temperament as in: it is her temperament) usual mood and tendencies
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)