TEMPERAMENT in a Sentence
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42 example sentences for TEMPERAMENT, such as:
1. Jill has such a lovely relaxed temperament.
2. Her temperament disposed her to argue readily with people.
3. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them.
4. The analysis of what kind of temperament you possess is vital.
5. For friendship some agreement in temperament is quite essential.
2. Her temperament disposed her to argue readily with people.
3. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them.
4. The analysis of what kind of temperament you possess is vital.
5. For friendship some agreement in temperament is quite essential.
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Meanings and Examples of TEMPERAMENT
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temperament
n. person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting; tendency to become irritable or angry
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them.
2 I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the disturbing influence end in a mentally-accomplished finish; a possibly dangerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish.
3 His temperament might be said to be just at the point of maturity.
4 Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.
5 Their gaze began with a defiant note but was confused by what seemed a deliberate swoon of the pupil into the iris, revealing for an instant a temperament of great sensibility.
6 But the artistic temperament that they create, or at any rate reveal, is still more to me.
7 Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament.
8 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.
9 To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing--my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.
10 Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with the world, a pure and upright man.
11 He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.
12 Of a deeply religious temperament, there was inevitably a tinge of the devotional in his mood.
13 Or perchance his sensitive temperament was invigorated by the loud and piercing music that swelled heaven-ward, and uplifted him on its ascending wave.
14 He was not to blame for having been born with his unbridled temperament and his somehow limited intelligence.
15 This was a very strong expression of approbation, an uncommonly hearty welcome, from a person of Mr. Sikes' temperament.
Example Sentence:
1 The analysis of what kind of temperament you possess is vital.
2 Her temperament disposed her to argue readily with people.
3 My profession had an important influence in the formation of my character and temperament.
4 The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
5 Jill has such a lovely relaxed temperament.
6 For friendship some agreement in temperament is quite essential.
7 Racket throwing tennis star John McEnroe was famed for his displays of tempestuous temperament.
8 Although world famous as a diva, she did not indulge in fits of temperament.