Sentence examples similar to tempered willpower from inspiring English sources
The liberation she invokes is finally a matter of willpower tempered by what may be the ultimate gift, a sense of humor.
Yet there is a more general problem as well: the public's appetite for many of the industry's products is tempered by the fact that a great deal are either worthless or require a lot of willpower to work.
The potency of our willpower is essential to temper distracting desires and to overcome habits and addictions that can undermine our noble efforts.
I tried willpower, gum, patches, going away alone on holiday to avoid inflicting my bad temper on others, giving up the coffee that went with the fags, giving up the wine that went with the fags, giving up the spicy food I liked to follow with a fag.
Strengthen your ability to resist office treats today, and tomorrow you might just find your increased willpower paying off in other areas of your work life: overcoming procrastination, keeping your temper in check, or resisting the distractions of the web when you're tackling a particularly boring assignment.
We speak of exerting willpower, of forcing ourselves to go to work, of restraining ourselves and of controlling our temper, as if it were an unruly dog.
She was born in 1916 into what Lee calls "a brilliantly clever English family distinguished by alarming honesty, caustic wit, shyness, moral rigour, willpower, oddness, and powerful banked-down feelings, erupting in moments of sentiment or in violent bursts of temper and gloom".
