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
And the outward type of Christianity, after western pressure has been taken away from this land, will depend upon the mental make-up and peculiar spiritual aspect of the Indian Christian.
From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)
And in spite of Sally’s 206 apparent indolence and softness, failure had no part in her mental make-up.
From The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor by Vandercook, Margaret
