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
To discriminate the cases with good outlook from those with bad, he discerned no difference in the stupors themselves, but observed that the mental make-up and initial symptoms differed sufficiently for diagnosis to be made.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)
What he was pleased to term his inner moral consciousness told him he ought to be shocked at its flippancy; the rest of his mental make-up was distinctly refreshed.
From His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by Wells, David Dwight
