choler

Example Sentences

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There’s Katharine Minola of “The Taming of the Shrew,” a sharp-tongued woman thought to have too much choler, the melancholic Ophelia of “Hamlet,” whose melancholia demonstrated an excess of black bile, and more.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

Throughout Seçkin’s debut, Sibel fixates on the ancient notion of the body’s four humors — blood, phlegm, black bile and choler — as a means of self-diagnosis for a persistent headache.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2022

Watson is in a perpetual state of stiff-necked choler tinged with snobbery — “I am better educated, more wealthy and stronger than you are,” he tells Bea, who is unmoved.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2021

Rockin’ the Suburbs offered no respite as it detailed the silent, hopeless choler of the human trash heap.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2015

“He defies me on purpose and drives me to madness,” complained the king, while Gertrude sought to soothe his choler.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein