1696 examples of temperaments in sentences

In your father Saccard and your Uncle Eugene Rougon, so different in their temperaments and their lives, it is the same impulse which made the inordinate appetites of the one and the towering ambition of the other.

I can imagine no more fascinating task than the careful analytical study of the temperaments of these two animals.

Such make those engaging good women of the world, who are able to understand and sympathise with the most diverse interests and temperaments; as it is the characteristic of a good critic to understand all those various products of art, which it would be impossible for him to create.

In him, too, was united that same joy in the sensuous form, that same adoration of the spiritual mystery, the temperaments in one of artist and priest.

But human nature being what it is, and temperaments varying as they do, it is natural to expect a certain amount of criticism, minute criticism, and observation, I have had that, but will content myself with one quotation from the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, well known to the noble Lord opposite.

Lucretius feels so strongly the unity of naturally evolved creation that he never hesitates to compare men of various temperaments with animals of sundry naturesthe fiery lion, the cool-tempered oxand explain the differences in both by the same preponderance of some peculiar kind of "soul-atoms.

There is the same conflict of temperaments that we have seen before, but less violent now; the poet's late-won calm of mind, and the level of culture from which his characters now are drawnperhaps by instinctive selectionmake for restraint.

This portrait of the banker, who accumulated riches both on earth and in heaven, may possibly be overdrawn, however, because Frances and I were "artistic temperaments" that viewed the type with a dislike and distrust amounting to contempt.

It's according to our temperaments, I think."

To some temperaments it becomes a treadmill, and that, strangely enough, to diametrically opposite temperaments.

To some temperaments it becomes a treadmill, and that, strangely enough, to diametrically opposite temperaments.

War is a terrible business in any case; and to some intellectual temperaments this is the most terrible part of it.

The emotions experienced by the Balkan peoples during that summer, beneath the smiles which they had to assume, were exhausting even for southern temperaments.

SEE Walley, Harold R. WILWERS, NICHOLAS M. The four temperaments.

Some Friends, of more quiet temperaments than himself, thought he had more activity than was consistent with dignity.

In their temperaments they were below this passion in its simplest forms.

The practical world of affairs, in its turn, so supremely rational to the politician, the military man, or the man of conquering business-faculty that he never would vote to change the type of it, is irrational to moral and artistic temperaments; so that whatever demand for rationality we find satisfied by a philosophic hypothesis, we are liable to find some other demand for rationality unsatisfied by the same hypothesis.

He was as cautious and regular as her own Hortense, and therefore, thought Josephine, these two young, careful, thoughtful temperaments would be well adapted to each other, and would know how to manage their hearts as discreetly as they did their purses.

You will be surrounded by people of artistic temperaments and tastes, and I know, if you do not, that many of these people do lack ideals, and some of them lack principles and take pride in the fact.

But as I remarked in the beginning, I have stood outside the fray and watched similar ventures, and I have grown to realize that it is not mere respectability and chastity in a woman which make her a safe chaperon for a young girl,it is a deep, full, broad understanding of temperaments and temptations.

He had one of those intense nervous temperaments that did not require or permit excessive sleep.

They are all coloured by human ideas and personalities and temperaments, and half of them are intuitions and experiences, which vary at different times and under different circumstances.

And then it is all complicated by the admixture of the masculine and feminine temperaments.

As a rule, however, women are interested in moody temperaments, and men are bored by them.

Perhaps this characterization is most noticeable in "Counterparts," which she called her small party of opposing temperaments: Salome, so gracious; Rose, like the spirit of a sunbeam; Sarona, so keen and incisive, his passion confronting Bernard's sweetness; and Cecilia, who, it is easy to conjecture, wrote the book.

1696 examples of  temperaments  in sentences