Sentence examples for warmth tempered from inspiring English sources

He's versatile, that warmth tempered with steel (God, he'd be great in a terse family drama).

The critics' response to the production has been one of warmth tempered by bemusement over some of Mr. Brook's cutting and pasting.

His warmth tempered the sharpness of the writing ... To say that everyone loved him sounds like every obituary ever written – nonetheless it's true ... Horne was one of the few great men I have met, and his generosity of spirit and gesture have, in my experience, never been surpassed.

By all accounts Ms. Doria, a no-nonsense, plain-speaking woman, ruled with a strong hand tempered with warmth.

Here the spikiness of the outer movements was tempered with warmth while the calmness of the slow movement was simply given space to unfold.

By that, I don't mean an obsequious well-wisher brimming with feigned enthusiasm, but a singer and songwriter who overflows with warmth and good humor, tempered with a hard, clear-eyed wisdom.

The service can seem overproduced and cluttered in the restaurant's confined space, but the waiters have worked out the dance steps, and what could be an overbearing formality is tempered by warmth.

With her insistence on the transformative — not to mention fatal — charms of a good joke, the character of Matilde might seem dubiously quirky, but Ms. Aspillaga humanizes her with ease, tempering warmth with a deadpan sense of timing.

Should the rivers' flow continue to rise through the century, the reduced Arctic salinity could hinder ocean currents that carry warmth north to temper the climate in Western Europe, they said.

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.

Full of her customary pace, darkness and fury, it's also tempered with the generosity, warmth and humanity that has characterised her more recent work.