How To Use Intemperate In A Sentence
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Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable.
Creative Control - Part 4
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However indignant and hotheaded he might appear, his intemperateness could rapidly be defused by humor or kindness.
Storyteller
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No one likes receiving emotional, intemperate outbursts, even from people who think they have been wrongly accused.
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This website cleverly lifted one intemperate remark by a well-respected scientist and all of you are commenting on it as if this remark is the sum total of his arguments.
Think Progress » Leading Climate Skeptic Compares Gore to Hitler
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For if the ruler is intemperate and unjust, how can he rule well?
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Such a fear, I think, is bad for academic institutions, and will ultimately harm them more than the occasional intemperate criticisms would.
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A Department of Education spokesman said: ‘I think we are all used to intemperate remarks at the Easter conferences.’
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intemperate zones
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It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
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It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
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Ms. Gornick reflects on the "raging intemperateness" of the era's feminist rhetoric—"marriage is an institution of oppression"; "love is rape"; "sleeping with the enemy"—and realizes now that reform wasn't the goal.
Lyrical Leftist, Dogged Idealist
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I always also take people seriously, though I do suggest to the few intemperate and angry emailers that I could respond more usefully if they couched their comments less aggressively.
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It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
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But this is not a sudden intemperate outburst from Phillips.
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On reflection whilst I stand by the thrust of that comment I would like to apologise for the intemperate use of words such as codswallop and and craven.
Ben Stewart: An Apology
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It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
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`And that was when you wrote that rather intemperate letter that I saw?
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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They figure if they can make Sonia Sotomayor appear "too liberal," "too activist," or "intemperate" -- and cause Obama to withdraw her nomination, or if they can defeat her outright -- they can slow the Obamomentum that's leading to universal health care, cap-and-trade, more spending on education, and higher taxes on the rich.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Indeed, the encounter was notable for a host of intemperate moments, quite apart from the major barney.
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In like manner neither can it be called intemperate: and in this respect there is dissimilarity between justice and the other moral virtues; but as regards the proportion between operation and habit, there is similarity in all respects.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Kyle Soller as the posturing Khlestakov is an extraordinary, ginger-haired beanpole whose fastidiousness is undercut by his intemperate greed.
Government Inspector – review
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Why had she married this rakish, intemperate man - this man who drank himself to an early demise?
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I’m seeing a lot of commenters call the emailer “foolish” “ignorant” and “intemperate” simply for stating that she’s open to evidence one way or another.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups
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Today we tend to dismiss the moralizing of the late Victorians who insisted that the unemployed were lazy, intemperate, or thriftless.
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First of all, it was not an intemperate outburst.
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Plato made it a great sign of an intemperate and corrupt commonwealth, where lawyers and physicians did abound; and the Romans distasted them so much that they were often banished out of their city, as Pliny and Celsus relate, for 600 years not admitted.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Narrow political interests and intemperate outbursts should be moved to one side.
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an intemperate climate
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For that cause belike Alexander discerning this inconvenience and danger that comes by seeing, [5655] when he heard Darius's wife so much commended for her beauty, would scarce admit her to come in his sight, foreknowing belike that of Plutarch, formosam videre periculosissimum, how full of danger it is to see a proper woman, and though he was intemperate in other things, yet in this superbe se gessit, he carried himself bravely.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Devout New England Puritans were not unusually promiscuous or intemperate.
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This was not the time for intemperate, ill- considered behaviour.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Joss-house, and in the most abject terms implore forgiveness for his intemperate language over-night.
Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War
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But his explanation for his intemperate outburst does not inspire confidence.
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The way he tells it, it had something to do with alcohol, some intemperate friends, one rebellious night and dissatisfaction with life in the army.
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Here the scale of order and simplicity is first broken, and then what shall a distempered or distemperate life run to, more certainly, than to what is intemperate?
Christian Nurture.
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This vital message is a matter of concern for citizens of every age and walk of life, but the punkish scribbles and all-over-the-place attempts at paste-up make it look like a poorly considered and intemperate rant.
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For Lincoln saw an unresolvable tension between the Constitution of a democratic republic and the policies of aggrandizement and intemperate self-interest that lead from the manners of freedom to the slavish love of power.
David Bromwich: To Maintain a Republic
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Intemperate drinking is ever the result of what has been misnamed _temperate drinking_.
Select Temperance Tracts
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This is a deeply moving drama in which the wise Nathan acts as a mediator between Saladin, the Muslim sultan, and Conrad, an intemperate templar knight.
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As such it takes us back to the days when Cameron was denouncing anyone who backed Grammar Schools in intemperate terms or rejecting any contrary position as ‘pointless’ or deluded or whatever.
Tories: Burn Your Bras!
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The tone of the article is intemperate.
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This was not the time for intemperate, ill- considered behaviour.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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The rest of the party had to avoid embarrassing its nominee with old-fashioned liberal slogans or intemperate attacks on the president, which it did with the help of truckloads of alcohol.
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It would have made him look weak and intemperate, and it would have strengthened this idea that he's someone who anguishes over a decision too much.
McChrystal Resigns, Obama Names Petraeus
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People called him on it (some perhaps in intemperate ways, others not, but they were right and he was mistaken).
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Slate, movie stars, and left-wing dictators:
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It should be noted -- and the distinction is of importance -- that the affections of a grave character most frequently produced by the alcoholic habit do not ensue as a consequence of what could be rightly called intemperate taking of the drug, -- its moderate use more commonly resulting in serious disease than when it is taken in great excess.
Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
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Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness.
Easter Lemming Liberal News
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The governor said he would not be provoked into intemperate action.
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There is of course much outrage over this intemperate and rude question.
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With regard to what is commonly meant by intemperate discussion, namely, invective, sarcasm, personality, and the like, the denunciation of these weapons would deserve more sympathy if it were ever proposed to interdict them equally to both sides; but it is only desired to restrain the employment of them against the prevailing opinion: against the unprevailing they may not only be used without general disapproval, but will be likely to obtain for him who uses them the praise of honest zeal and righteous indignation.
On Liberty
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The tone was new: not merely strident, but shrill, vindictive, intemperate; but most noticeably, the real target was new.
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What motivates liberals to launch their increasingly wild and intemperate assaults on conservatives is, in most cases, their fear and hatred of the ‘religious right.’
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However intemperate, rude and fatuous Ken's outburst might have been, it was not racist.
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intemperate rage
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And if he would not accept an intemperate slave, what pains should the master himself take to avoid that imputation. 93 For with the incontinent man it is not as with the self-seeker and the covetous.
Memorabilia
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District Judge Alan Berg told him: ‘You were out of control and acted like an intemperate bully.’
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With such prudence of the humors, with God's help, you will keep far away the intemperateness which is the cause of early aging and an early death.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Lasciviously, this is one of the noticias de peru blastomycotic titian spelaeology, as intemperately as synezesis who are ignominious to skeletal up.
Rational Review
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I take offence at the suggestion, which would be refuted by anyone present in the Committee, that my behaviour was intemperate, immoderate, or offensive, if that word was used, as well.
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I'm sorry for the offence caused by the intemperate language and aggressive attitudes of a small part of the audience.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that managers are increasingly spending time repairing social relations damaged by hasty, ill-considered and intemperate electronic communications.
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Many a traitor hand now drew forth its dagger, and the intemperate Badenoch, drunk with choler and mad ambition, snatching a sword from one of his accomplices, made another violent plunge at Wallace, but its metal flew in splinters on the guard-stroke of the regent, and left Badenoch at his mercy.
The Scottish Chiefs
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A hastily penned memo from the heir to the throne, and an intemperate radio outburst from the Education Secretary, says everything about the entrenched positions of royalty and New Labour.
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At their return they did eat more soberly at supper than at other times, and meats more desiccative and extenuating; to the end that the intemperate moisture of the air, communicated to the body by a necessary confinitive, might by this means be corrected, and that they might not receive any prejudice for want of their ordinary bodily exercise.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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But the Canadian leader said he had told Blair ‘that this was not the time for intemperate or unfortunate remarks’.
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His literary criticism, often intemperate, was cruelly dismissive of his fellow Irish writers.
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Kyle Soller as the posturing Khlestakov is an extraordinary, ginger-haired beanpole whose fastidiousness is undercut by his intemperate greed.
Government Inspector – review
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Campolo then concluded his letter by stating, ‘Nevertheless, I very much want to apologize for the intemperate manner in which I spoke of those who differ with me on these issues.’
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Because his reviews were so intemperate ( "God knows I've never aspired to anything like impartiality"), and, yes, because he happens to be gay, he's been dismissed as "bitchy" - "a troubled queen.
The King of Splatter Crit Lays Down His Weapon
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With regard to what is commonly meant by intemperate discussion, namely invective, sarcasm, personality, and the like, the denunciation of these weapons would deserve more sympathy if it were ever proposed to interdict them equally to both sides; but it is only desired to restrain the employment of them against the prevailing opinion: against the unprevailing they may not only be used without general disapproval, but will be likely to obtain for him who uses them the praise of honest zeal and righteous indignation.
II. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
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At no period of life was I ever what men call intemperate; I never was in the habit of intoxication [the italics are Poe's]; I never drank drams, et cetera; but for a brief period, while I resided in Richmond and edited the Messenger, I certainly did give way, at long intervals, to the temptation held out on all sides to the spirit of Southern conviviality.
Edgar Allan Poe -- After Fifty Years
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Perhaps we should all be thankful for Scalia's intemperateness, which has had the salutary effect of marginalizing him on the Court.
Adam Winkler: Justice Scalia & the Coarsening of American Culture
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I could not help reflecting bodingly upon the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05
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And I'm willing to bet a few of them may have made an intemperate remark on occasion.
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Unfortunately, Hailey himself ended up engaging in intemperate attacks on Wizbang’s site.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Columbia Journalism Review on CBS and the forged documents.
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If we are not careful we will have judges sitting on their benches apologising all day for inconsiderate or intemperate or ill-judged remarks and there won't be any work done.
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The intemperate are the persons to whom these expostulations should be addressed.
Select Temperance Tracts
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The faithful, united in bodies, guilds, corporations or "collegia", admitted coarse, intemperate men among them, who degraded the character of the assemblies.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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An intemperate man has strong temptation to plead: he began with conviviality, and only arrives at solitary intemperance as the ultimate degradation.
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Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness.
Gallup: Obama Leads Hillary By Ten Points, Narrowly Edging McCain
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But such, though as much led away as the others, we do not in like manner call incontinent and intemperate, since they are ruined through ignorance and want of experience.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Rather, he is choleric in temperament: he is passionate, intemperate, and prone to rashness and anger.
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But the hopefulness with which Joey starts the summer rapidly devolves into confusion and fright as he tries to manage his remorseful, fetching, intemperate, hyperactive, and alcoholic father.
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`And that was when you wrote that rather intemperate letter that I saw?
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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It is tempting under the current circumstances to rush down from our high ground and have a right old go at the BBC - perhaps using rather high-flown and intemperate language.
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He was a good and industrious workman in the shop, but both he and his wife were grossly intemperate at home.
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When by the next morning he had slept off his debauch, and came round to recollection of his enormities, his penitence knew no bounds; he would prostrate himself in the Joss-house, and in the most abject terms implore forgiveness for his intemperate language over-night.
Under the Dragon Flag
