The phrase "sweet temper" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It refers to someone's pleasant and easily manageable attitude or demeanor. Example: She was known for her sweet temper and ability to diffuse tense situations with her charming smile.
Pierce called him "a Gentleman of great modesty with a remarkable sweet temper.
Ben's sweet temper left him; he was preparing to roast her when the minister found him.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Matthew Gurewitsch said that it "has Kentridge's fingerprints all over it, yet never betrays Mozart's generosity and sweet temper".
The clarity, wit and sweet temper of its prose come from a different time, when (one might say) the Old Few, if not actually ruling, at least bumbled about.
Reinforcing the hypocrisy that glues society together, her family chose to praise her benevolence and sweet temper in the memorial plaque they installed in Winchester Cathedral while pointedly not referring to her novels.
You would be taxed to name a show with a sweeter temper than "Letters From Cuba," a lovely and contemplative autobiographical morsel by Irene Maria Fornes that opened yesterday at the Signature Theater's Peter Norton Space in Clinton.
Though his nature was care-free, amounting almost to wildness, he had the sweetest temper I have seen in a man, and was essentially a sportsman.
Fraser's just as talented with animals, which is made particularly evident by a mound of Dungeness crab meat scattered with chopped hazelnut, blood orange, and basil, and by a juicy "lacquered" duck breast, its scored, fatty skin rendered crisp and almost candy-sweet, tempered by a dusting of dried herbs.
Okja is among the first alumni of the program, and she's a honey: sweet of temper, loyal, and intelligent.
His tastes, raw and insatiable, were for whores in the gutter and drinking until dawn; yet his essential sweetness of temper kept Johnson sweet, too.
"She was always appeared to me of a sweet and amiable temper," Franklin wrote Jane.
