well-tempered

adjective

1. (of a musical scale or instrument) conforming to the system of equal temperament See temperament

Example Sentences

“I just discovered something—a complete world. . . . already there in the physics of well-tempered harmony.”

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As television cameras rolled, and after some well-tempered discussion, Trump was asked by a journalist about what it would take for him to be convinced that discredited claims of "white genocide" in South Africa are untrue.

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Then, after a while, Biden’s well-tempered strategy collapsed.

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It bends the well-tempered notes of the European scale into idiosyncratic microtones and mocks any inflexible rhythm.

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In 1966 he wrote of overcoming his dissatisfaction with two takes of a fugue from Book 1 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, one take he considered “rather pompous” and the other overly jubilant — and both “monotonous.”

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