temperament
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In terms of temperament, what stood out, considering the context of our conversations, was how mild-mannered he seemed.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Shea has got the attributes to play at the highest level of the game, and the temperament to do so, and that is what you look for as a captain," O'Neill said at the time.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
You know her temperament better than I do, and if she is a reasonable and levelheaded person, it would do no harm to give her a heads-up.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
It wasn’t market acumen or grasp of economic theory, but how he combined both with a temperament for navigating relentless political pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The Huygens-Fokker Foundation has a very large on-line bibliography2l of tuning and temperament.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Without sense, it could be a myopic rumination on climate change mixed with a treacly buddy comedy, where two opposing temperaments clash into a discordant, aggravating mess.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
The nominated Oscar shorts come in three categories — and a lot of subjects, styles and temperaments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
A key to Mr. Barnes’s books is that in style as well as form he is a hybridizer, able to combine seemingly contrary temperaments into a single writing voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
"They all had quite different temperaments for different points in the film," she noted.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
The materials for this story are taken from two poets, the Greek Aeschylus and the Roman Ovid, separated from each other by four hundred and fifty years and still more by their gifts and temperaments.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing temperament
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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"The Mixer," Vocabulary from the short story
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Vocabulary from the First Presidential Debate: September 26, 2016
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