Sentence examples for stability of character from inspiring English sources

Mr. Roth wonders about the stability of character and identity.

Pericles of Athens was indeed unique for Thucydides in that he combined caution and moderation in action and great stability of character with a daring imagination and intellect; he was a leader of the new age.

This defeat was, in one aspect, the defeat of intellectual brilliance and daring by "stolidity" and stability of character (this last the quality most lacking in Alcibiades, the most brilliant Athenian of the second half of the war); but it was largely brought about by Brasidas and Lysander, the two Spartans who rivaled the Athenians in daring and intellect.

Hence the stability of character must be tempered with flexibility (Motivität); in the "precision of this flexibility lies the art of characterful living" (PS I: 201; 351, f.; cf. esp. 198).

Because the stability of character is only relative, and shifts over the years, its true principle can only consist in being oriented towards a realm of purposes (Zwecke) or ultimate values (Werte) (Weiss 1928: 216).

The "stability of character" parameter puts Tea Party hopefuls like Nevada's Sharron Angle at the forefront of a simple question: Are such extremists fit to serve in either body of the United States Congress?

In 1966, Jens Clausen was struck by the stability of characters in T. pratensis, T. porrifolius and their hybrid over 200 years, concluding that there is 'a high degree of permanence of the basic genetic structure of species' (Clausen 1966, p. 157).

Our marriage is egalitarian, not because the distribution of task-based activities is completely equal, but because in and among all possible domains (e.g. daily tasks, emotional stability, strength of character) there is a balance that exists.

Next, we investigated the stability of this character.

The stability of induced characters once the stimulus was removed (called "cellular memory") and the number of generations characters were maintained varied widely.

Wounds that appear healed turn out to be raw; tempers flare over the commodification of a tragedy as a coffee-table book; the already fragile stability of several characters is threatened.