- plural of temperament.
Example Sentences
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A key to Mr. Barnes’s books is that in style as well as form he is a hybridizer, able to combine seemingly contrary temperaments into a single writing voice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Everything is just a little more obvious, including the two American sound guys bearing the brunt of the artistic temperaments running riot in the studio.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
"They all had quite different temperaments for different points in the film," she noted.
From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025
Subsequent synthetics display a range of temperaments, from Lance Henriksen’s Bishop, realistic enough to pass for human, to Michael Fassbender’s David 8, the earliest Weyland-Yutani invention to achieve a lifelike version of artificial intelligence.
From Salon • Sep. 8, 2025
They are of incompatible temperaments, and both need “tranquility for our work.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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