Sentence examples for it tempers from inspiring English sources

It forsakes the epic for the idiosyncratic, it tempers its bombast with both reflection and inventiveness.

Like all of Mr. Kaurismaki's films, it tempers its lyricism with an undertone of gallows humor, more muted here than in earlier films, but still palpable.

But it tempers liberalism with pragmatism.

Yet it tempers this message when expedient, and it lacks a clear economic policy.

This is only a forecast, but it tempers hopes for a rapid turnaround in Japan's saving surplus.

If "The Lobster" remains Lanthimos's most vital work, that's because it tempers the gloom with a mischievous play of wit.

If it tempered his anti-communism, so did the high value he put on national pride.

And then it tempered expectations of when it can pay a dividend: no chance in 2016, first quarter of 2017 at the earliest.

"Anyone knows you have to let it temper out of the freezer, to open it so it becomes malleable," said Buzzy O'Keeffe, owner of the A-rated River Café. A-rated River Café

The humanizing influence of French civilization — "the free and genial atmosphere of Continental life," as he called it — tempered his drier certainties.

The case for a rate increase had "strengthened," the Fed said, but it tempered that by saying it would be contingent on their outlook being correct.