phlegmatic

Example Sentences

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Romance: Another of Pynchon’s late crime novels, “Bleeding Edge” also chronicles the tender but tested love between insurance investigator Maxine Tarnower and her phlegmatic husband, Horst.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The fact that credit markets had been at record-tight levels running into the Iranian war heightens the vulnerability of credit markets, although Bergeron did acknowledge the market reaction thus far has been phlegmatic.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Under his guidance, the British people came to see themselves as the phlegmatic and resolute defenders of their island home, the latest in a great line of underdog warriors.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

And amid all the lenses, microphones and spotlights which accompany a Tinseltown presence on matchday, manager Phil Parkinson has coped with everything in characteristically phlegmatic style.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2023

They are anything but a phlegmatic people, yet they are obdurate, they are pertinacious, they finish plastering joints.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin