even-tempered

How To Use even-tempered In A Sentence

• 'Panetta is an even-tempered and highly regarded Washington player -- kind of a Mr. Fixit in a nice suit. OpEdNews - Quicklink: David Corn: Obama Picks Anti-Torture Advocate for CIA Chief
• `Maybe my mother will make me a dress of green velvet," went on the even-tempered Violet. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
• According to this interpretation, the phrase “the nature of the divine and the good” refers simply to a characteristic that is attributed to Pyrrho, and labeled by poetic hyperbole as ˜divine™, in another fragment of Timon, namely his extraordinary tranquillity; the couplet as a whole, then, is saying that tranquillity is the source of an even-tempered life. Picnic
• He is even-tempered, slow to anger, able to teach.
• When called in the early hours of the morning, as he frequently was, he was as even-tempered as if attending a social event.
• Neilson was a remarkably generous and even-tempered person who rarely had anything critical or dismissive to say of anyone, yet there may be a trace of irritation in his tone when he hastily deals with the matter in one of his letters.
• Stanley was unfailingly polite and even-tempered on the set.
• His presentation is calm and even-tempered, but not monotone either.
• Notwithstanding the occasional outburst behind closed doors, to the outside world William still appeared to be a remarkably poised, outgoing, and even-tempered young gentleman. William and Kate
• As colonial secretary he was efficient, high-principled, and even-tempered, and was willing to make allowances for the difficulties of his governors.