temperament

Conservative intellectuals in the U.S. appropriated Disraeli as an exemplar of temperament and principle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

David said the dog's excitable temperament can be hard to manage without adequate training knowledge, while their strong bite can attract "the wrong type of people".

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

"I've known and respected Jay Clayton for decades. His intelligence, temperament and deep commitment to public service will make him a terrific DNI," added Jim Hines, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Others credit Becerra’s mild temperament, describing him as a steady figure — the Goldilocks candidate in a field of competitors who weren’t just right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

With Rush, however, Adams began to slip Jefferson into their conversation as an example of the kind of enigmatic temperament destined to flourish in the history books.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

Subsequent synthetics display a range of temperaments, from Lance Henriksen’s Bishop, realistic enough to pass for human, to Michael Fassbender’s David 8, the earliest Weyland-Yutani invention to achieve a lifelike version of artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025

“There was so much to fish because it was a big family, and big families hide a lot of stories and have so many temperaments and colors,” Delpero says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025

Though their temperaments were different they found something in common, an interest in Tim and Tess, the twin churchmice.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques