Sentence examples for occasionally tempered from inspiring English sources

The wild talk is still occasionally tempered by cooler speeches from moderates, such as Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, who may still seek to restrain Mr Aweys in the Islamist leadership.

Syria has been gripped since mid-March by a popular uprising against four decades of iron-fisted rule by the Assad family, and the government has responded to the revolt with a violent crackdown occasionally tempered by offers of political reform.

The stark, minimal world of How It Is – the mud, the single sack of food, the violent encounters in the dark – is occasionally tempered by moments of sublime beauty and reminiscence: "blue and white of sky a moment still April morning in the mud it's over it's done I've had the image the scene".

When challenged, he listens carefully and considerately, and occasionally tempers his ire.

Dawkins occasionally tempers his tweets with qualifications, only to undo them: "Of COURSE most Muslims are peaceful.

Gudsforladt offer up raw, funereal, utterly miserable antifascist black metal from the heart of the empire, occasionally tempering their melodic melancholia with more aggressive up-tempo passages that retain a cold, mournful atmosphere.

But while Neo's circuits are exacting, occasionally painfully (temper, temper), they're consistently beautiful.

It's a brusquely masculine image tempered occasionally by a strand of pearls and dainty, never dangly, earrings (the latter deemed too distracting for television cameras).

Though known to have an occasionally vicious temper, Mr Fukuda's manner for the most part is grey and conciliatory.

Reid doesn't have the sort of domineering personality that L.B.J. had; in fact, despite an occasionally quick temper, he can seem almost shy.

My short stature, round belly, smooth pink scalp, anonymous name, and occasionally irascible temper no doubt contributed, but mainly it was the fat lips.