mental make-up
Example Sentences
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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
The patient was a recidivist of unstable mental make-up.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)
Our conditions are wretched—but still more wretched is the mental make-up of those who shut their eyes to such facts.
From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel
