All 14 Uses of
temperament
in
Of Human Bondage
- The boy's temperament seemed to him essentially religious.†
Chpt 17-18 *temperament = usual mood and tendencies
- The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the religious temperament.†
Chpt 27-28
- He honestly mistook his sensuality for romantic emotion, his vacillation for the artistic temperament, and his idleness for philosophic calm.†
Chpt 29-30
- His temperament was receptive to the beautiful influences with which he came in contact, and he was able in his letters from Rome to put a subtle fragrance of Italy.†
Chpt 31-32
- It shocked him a little that she should give him so marked a lead: it did not tally altogether with his prepossessions about the modesty of the feminine temperament.†
Chpt 35-36
- He could not help thinking that if he had in him the artistic temperament (he hated the phrase, but could discover no other) he would feel beauty in the emotional, unreasoning way in which they did.†
Chpt 49-50
- Philip knew that he was flirting with Mildred, and he was horribly jealous of him; but he took comfort in the coldness of her temperament, which otherwise distressed him; and, thinking her incapable of passion, he looked upon his rival as no better off than himself.†
Chpt 57-58
- Her sluggish temperament made her appreciate noisy people.†
Chpt 61-62
- The drudgery of the first two years is awful, and unfortunately I haven't got the scientific temperament.'†
Chpt 63-64
- There was in Norah a maternal instinct which received satisfaction in her love for Philip; she wanted someone to pet, and scold, and make a fuss of; she had a domestic temperament and found pleasure in looking after his health and his linen.†
Chpt 65-66
- She had a phlegmatic temperament, and her condition did not seriously inconvenience her.†
Chpt 71-72
- His sensitive temperament was offended by the reference.†
Chpt 83-84
- He appeared to have the same independence of thought, the same bohemianism, but he had an infinitely more vivacious temperament; his mind was coarser, and he had not that interest in the abstract which made Cronshaw's conversation so captivating.†
Chpt 87-88
- Besides, religion is a matter of temperament; you will believe anything if you have the religious turn of mind, and if you haven't it doesn't matter what beliefs were instilled into you, you will grow out of them.†
Chpt 87-88