Often a voice for moderation against the advocacy of radical measures by Jakob Stämpfli, he tempered passions in the Neuchâtel affair and urged peaceful accommodation in the controversy arising from the cession of Savoy to France (1860).
Over forty years their marriage has been tempered from passion to devotion by the flames of fame and shame.
Good detective fiction tempered the passion and pursuit of melodrama with the "beauty of a mathematical problem"; an unsuccessful story, Eliot wrote, was one that "fails between two possible tasks … the pure intellectual pleasure of Poe and the fullness and abundance of life of Collins".
Temper passion with objectivity.
Tempering Passion In part, Democratic contentment flows up from the grass roots.
Despite his position as a pre-eminent poet, and the surety of his place within the canon, even in his last books Williams continued to refuse either to temper the passion and rage of his poetry or to settle down within the poetic landscape he had made his own.
Your disapproval of the sponsoring group would temper the passion you could bring to the task, and a lukewarm letter of reference is no reference at all.
In his acceptance speech earlier he told UKIP supporters there was "nothing that we cannot achieve" but urged his party to reach out to as many voters as possible - including first and second generation immigrants - and to "temper" its "passion with compassion".
But she has learned to temper her passion for the environment with hard-headed analysis of the "possible," even when it costs her.
Personally, Cheryl has been somewhat of a mentor to me, and, among other things, she's taught me how to temper my passion into policy-effecting activism.
Wilson is the straight man to the comedic Lynch, his raspy passion tempered by the latter's light touch and high, sweet voice, while between them sits Yorkston, rapt at the strident honesty of Cornflake and the hip hop-flecked Far Gone (Don't Leave), both ecstatic observer and essential element.
