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
His mental make-up was peculiar, in that it was the epitome of energy––manifested at first only in brute force––and in that it was wholly deficient in the sense of fear.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
I had known him pretty well as a hard-working and remarkably bright man, with a curious streak in his mental make-up that led him to investigate every new "ism" that appeared.
From Eleven Possible Cases by Fyles, Franklin
