temperament
Example Sentences
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"It's a good day to have a Nordic temperament," Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide diplomatically remarked to me when I asked about this moment.
From BBC
Whatever you decide to do, make sure that you are prepared for Dante’s temperament to change during the move.
From MarketWatch
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.
Quite different in temperament and never friends, both Milne and Shepard drew on their happy childhoods, with the Milnes moving slightly up the social scale and the Shepards sliding down.
Bethell had already shown his temperament for the big occasion by making a valuable 40 in England's successful chase in the fourth Test in Melbourne.
From BBC
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