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mental make-up



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He "isn't prepared to make the changes needed to govern, because of his mental make-up", Bolkestein said.

From Reuters • Feb. 28, 2017

I can't understand the mental make-up of people who were themselves just released from the yoke of the vanquished and now take up the mantle of Conqueror again.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are considerably less flexible in their mental make-up than other animals that are com­monly trained in circuses and zoos—sea Hons and chimpanzees, for example.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

And this we find in the strong influence of environment on the physical and mental make-up of man.

From Japan and the California Problem by Iyenaga, Toyokichi

What he was pleased to term his inner moral consciousness told him he ought to be shocked at its flippancy; the rest of his mental make-up was distinctly refreshed.

From His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by Wells, David Dwight




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