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

There was no temperateness about Molly; she was all storm or sunshine, he had once said in the poetic days of courtship.

From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson