Sentence examples for tempered only by from inspiring English sources

The moment was tempered only by a quarter-mile uphill grade, which left him breathing hard.

We share in their joy, a joy tempered only by our compassion for their ordeal..

Everyone here seems to have a gun these days, in a lawlessness tempered only by revolutionary ebullience.

In 1997, his starry-eyed enthusiasm was tempered only by his desire not to provoke the largely anti-European press.

Haziza sleeps on the dank concrete of their single room, the dampness tempered only by thin bed sheets.

Our sense of achievement and awe while cycling through them was tempered only by our old foes, rain and wind.

The stock market's sugar high, fueled by juicy profits and falling taxes, is being tempered only somewhat by fear that the Federal Reserve will take the punch bowl away.

First came the stock market collapse, tempered only a bit by the rebound of the last few months.

Here was a presidency of stubborn self-righteousness tempered by only a cursory understanding of the nation's tradition in the humanities.

In "Dynamism of a Human Body," painted in 1913, the influence of Cubism is only tempered by trompe l'oeil shading to render volume and by the lyrical use of a strong palette inherited from Fauvism.

His joy was only tempered by the fact that he "wished that it could have been done quicker and for less money.