well-tempered
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“I just discovered something—a complete world. . . . already there in the physics of well-tempered harmony.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
It bends the well-tempered notes of the European scale into idiosyncratic microtones and mocks any inflexible rhythm.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
The 18th-century theorists who devised the well-tempered system of tuning instruments meant merely to improve music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2017
The punningly titled device is not quite a well-tempered clavier, but sort of an automotive gamelan.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2016
During the prince's abode in Spain, that able negotiator had ever opposed, though unsuccessfully, to the impetuous measures suggested by Buckingham, his own wise and well-tempered counsels.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David
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