Sentence examples for tempered by experience from inspiring English sources

Its idealism has been tempered by experience.

Any optimism about the proposed budget is tempered by experience.

As with immigration, his guiding principle is an unrepentant tolerance, but one tempered by experience.

If Gray is trading in simplicities at the moment, it's because they're the right simplicities, tempered by experience.

The head of mission to whom both men report is Chiara Lepora, a toxicologist from Italy whose natural warmth, dedication and compassion have been tempered by experience.

But rising above the debate was a clarion sympathy, hard as metal and tempered by experience, for those who suffered most keenly on Sept. 11.

He was tempered by his experience.

Optimism must be tempered by the experience of two prior periods of activism, neither of which solved the governance riddle.

Even so, foreign staff workers who had been ejected by the Taliban are now starting to return in a mood of optimism, tempered by grim experience.

Mr. Neel said that he was at home when he heard the news and that his pleasure was tempered by long experience in politics.

Was Mathison's pleasure in her achievement ever tempered by the experience of hearing it repeatedly described as "Spielberg's ET"?