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What does temperament mean?

temperament

(= disposition) your usual mood he has a happy disposition excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys

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Simple sentences

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Liisa and Markku are entirely different in temperament and constantly at sixes and sevens.
I was told there is a difference between temper and temperament. How can one explain this difference?
Nancy has a very lively and sweet temperament.
What a temperament! If I didn't know he was Norwegian, I would think he was Italian.

Movie subtitles

You have a sturdy temperament, General.
Alright, but that's his temperament.
But I'm afraid of his temperament.
In a star, it's temperament, but in a chorus girl, it's just bad taste.
That's on account of their warm, languorous southern temperament.
You know, Dakota, I once knew a dame who had a temperament just like a bomb.
The artist has a special temperament, and he must live his life exclusively with those who understand it.
An occupation for which many people feel I'm well qualified by temperament and training.
A woman of your temperament.
Something I'd never have mentioned, his temperament.
Besides a temperament, which consists mostly of swooping about on a broomstick and screaming at the top of my voice.
So you see, when I tell you that I understand the artistic temperament.
I don't know him very well but he seems an intelligent man. Fairly easy temperament.
Perhaps there have been in your family certain peculiarities of temperament, but.
Only by temperament.
Forget the temperament.
Temperament?
If I don't agree, it's temperament.
You referring to your husband's appalling exhibition of temperament last night?
Or perhaps, since these exhibitions of temperament are so very wearing we'd better let the concerto rest until after lunch.
Rehearsals, fuss, temperament, not even an appetite for dinner, if you please.
Singular. A woman of your temperament.
Because I succumbed to your charm don't think that I'll endure your temperament, because I won't.
A matter of temperament.
Temperament. Didn't like the way I played a little scene.
My dear Tex you don't understand the artistic temperament.
She was an actress with a real temperament.
It's his temperament.
Oh, no, no, never. Temperament. I can't help it.
Artistic temperament?
Artistic temperament, off with the old and on with the new.
You see what a poisonous temperament has this family, but you are angry with me.
It's a matter of temperament.
My artistic temperament wouldn't permit it.
Tell him to look for a man like me without my artistic temperament.
Temperament.
Temperament, Harry!

News and current affairs

The two men differ in temperament as well as experience.
The question was how to package elites' interest in free-market capitalism with the provincial temperament of a parochial constituency.
While image consultants and acting ability can mask a candidate's character, an integrated life over time is the best basis to judge the authenticity of the next president's temperament and how he will govern.
He observed that the Korean temperament is a product of long, harsh Siberian winters and hot, humid summers, with only short springs and autumns.
Temperament, obesity, heart disease, intelligence, homosexuality or criminal behavior: everything is said to reside in the genes.
The chosen tools may sometimes strain our liberal temperament.
For me, the choice is simple - and not only because I am, by temperament and history, a Democrat.
Fortunately, they seemed to have a temperament closer to Colin Powell's than to either Than Shwe or Maung Aye, the two closed military minds who have cut off Myanmar from the world.
Given his temperament, however, that hardly seems likely.

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