Sentence examples for temperament in three from inspiring English sources

In the early nineteen-nineties, Worley developed a sixty-item questionnaire that he called Worley's Identity Discovery Profile, or W.I.D.P., which sought to quantify a person's temperament in three areas: social and vocational, leadership, and relationships.

In her book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), she showed that masculinity is not necessarily expressed through aggressiveness and that femininity is not necessarily expressed through passivity and acquiescence.

Her other works include Growing Up in New Guinea (1930; new ed., 2001), Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935; new ed., 2001), Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis (1942, with Gregory Bateson, to whom she was married in 1936 51; reprinted 1962), Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964; reissued 1999), and A Rap on Race (1971, with James Baldwin; reissued 1992).

Those huge issues aside, it seems clear that Mr. McCain's success in the Senate has been limited by his temperament in two ways.

Fingers thoroughly loosed by Prokofiev's climactic tempest, Mr. Bronfman offered further evidence of his technical brilliance and refined temperament in two encores, Chopin's Études in F (Op. 10, No. 8) and C sharp minor (Op. 10, No. 4).

His "Four Temperaments" in four symphonic movements is a triumph of sincerity over originality.

And although he was not an avant-gardist by temperament, he participated in three of the seminal recordings of the 1960s jazz avant-garde: Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz" (1960), Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch" (1964) and John Coltrane's "Ascension" (1965).

Whether one agrees with this assessment will be a matter of philosophical temperament, in particular of one's willingness to tolerate subjective probabilities in one's account of evidential relations.

After dogs are sorted by size and temperament, they are placed in three rooms with rubberized floors where the dogs socialize with each other.

On the contrary, they were flush with dramatic allusions: the god with his muses in "Apollo," the women winding as if across a Greek vase in "Concerto Barocco," the troubled sleeper in "La Sonnambula," the Temperaments, in the "Four Temperaments".

The title "Architecture of Dance" takes on new resonance when you watch the Balanchine works with which it opened the main repertory of its spring season on Sunday: "Concerto Barocco" (1941), "The Four Temperaments" (1946) and "Symphony in Three Movements" (1972).