Example Sentences

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It is a sow’s ear made from the silk purse of his election, which was the nation’s plea for temperateness.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021

The smartest strategy, therefore, is to encourage Kavanaugh when he demonstrates temperateness and restraint.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021

For all his temperateness of tone, and for all the meticulously reasoned arguments that he has shepherded into the pages of National Affairs, Levin justly says his ideas are radical.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2014

It is in this phase that are chiefly developed those qualities of clear-headedness, temperateness of thought and action, and well-founded self-reliance that are the foundation of all genuine personal morality and social effectiveness.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

Beyond this temperateness of mind nothing could move him.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 by Various