disposition

I met him several times, notably on the set of Mr. Cameron’s “Avatar,” which would be irrelevant here if Landau hadn’t brought his own disposition into the conversation.

Unlike Marxism or reform liberalism, it has no systematic ideological program; rather, it is a set of dispositions and attitudes.

Although she has a sunny disposition, the past can come roaring back.

Black celebrities’ disposition, at best, gives us this: We care about what’s happening, but don’t count on any particular direct activism from us.

For one thing, humanity seems to have had a genetic disposition to fear the death of itself, different from our fear of our individual deaths, for as long as humanity has existed.