temperateness
Example Sentences
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It is a sow’s ear made from the silk purse of his election, which was the nation’s plea for temperateness.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
The smartest strategy, therefore, is to encourage Kavanaugh when he demonstrates temperateness and restraint.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2021
For all his temperateness of tone, and for all the meticulously reasoned arguments that he has shepherded into the pages of National Affairs, Levin justly says his ideas are radical.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2014
So we find in his style a beauty which does not depend upon ornament, but upon perfect proportion; a diction plain and severe almost to baldness; absolute temperateness of expression.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley
His opinions, well chosen and deliberate though they were, were flavoured with a delicate temperateness so distinctive of the man and of his habits.
From Berenice by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
