temperateness

How To Use temperateness In A Sentence

• However indignant and hotheaded he might appear, his intemperateness could rapidly be defused by humor or kindness. Storyteller
• 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
• The first is "restraint, mildness, temperateness. 12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004
• In this sense, whatever its temperateness and generality, the Cairo speech played for higher stakes than any strategist in an earlier mold could have advised or foreseen. — Advice to the Prince
• His was a wise and instinctive temperateness that savored of the WHEN GOD LAUGHS
• Its orderly vistas open receptive minds to the symmetry, balance, proportion and temperateness of our political institutions and the civil society that sustains our common purposes. The Statue Sweepstakes
• Hence, too, man himself is here freer of soul than elsewhere, for this temperateness of the climate prevails in all things. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
• Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. Easter Lemming Liberal News
• Susan Boyle is a model of that virtue (for which 'temperateness' is a better translation than the now-ruined 'temperance') MercatorNet
• After I had drunk half a dozen glasses, my policy of temperateness in mind, I decided that I had had enough for that time. Chapter 9