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
This means that in so far as these represent the mental make-up of the individual, his mentality is continuously linked with others which have gone before.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.
His mental make-up was peculiar, in that it was the epitome of energy––manifested at first only in brute force––and in that it was wholly deficient in the sense of fear.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
