Sentence examples for tempered nature from inspiring English sources

For decades, he was an Icon in the New York transportation industry, was president of the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade and was known for his deep sense of integrity and unflappable even tempered nature.

In the same interview, he mentions how "disappointed" he's been by the "tempered" nature of Washington's response to "the long war" against terrorism and wonders why the U.S. isn't ramping up its efforts, if not to a "World War II level," then at least to a "Vietnam War level".

Try meditation or get enough sleep to overcome your short tempered nature.

"But our celebration is tempered by the nature of what we confirmed".

They are told in concise, unambiguous language and reflect the author's skepticism about human nature, tempered by sympathetic understanding.

But his regard was tempered by the nature of the materials, many of which were weapons components.

As the more complicated Claude Bukowski, Flushing-bred but Manchester, England, obsessed, Paris Remillard exudes youthful good nature tempered by hints of inner conflict.

But check your cynicism at the door: Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones, with its reactionary nature tempered by Ernest Lehman's supple screenplay, and its elephantine running-time eased by a set of songs that lodge in your system like hookworms.

My enthusiasm is tempered by the nature of this autumn's rally.

The tenor Robert Murray invests Essex's "lute songs" with engaging lyricism but also projects the Earl's hot-tempered nature, which is apparent at once when, jealous of a tournament victory by his rival Mountjoy (Moritz Gogg), he picks a fight with him.

Nor, despite his generally even-tempered nature, could he withstand that kind of crushing terror and loneliness.