Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. From LearnThat.org. [Abigail Adams (1744-1818)]
A phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
phlegmatic: The phlegmatic is the hardest to pinpoint because she's the queen of blending in. From Wordnik.com. [It's my life...] Reference
English, in our passion for daily excitement, might call her phlegmatic, but we should call her so unjustly. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
As an aside, "phlegmatic" was often used in 19th century discourse as a nice way to say "lazy.". From Wordnik.com. ["Beyond dirty campaigning... to something truly dishonorable."] Reference
I was afraid, Aquilius, when you came to the "phlegmatic" you would rhyme it to "rheumatic," and so on to the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Stephens said his client was "phlegmatic" about having to remain in jail. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
A Very Unimportant Officer - are characterised by a very British kind of phlegmatic restraint. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"phlegmatic" Englishman has been scattered to the four winds of heaven by the guns of the western front. From Wordnik.com. [War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war] Reference
There weren't many arguing for a policy of phlegmatic calm. From Wordnik.com. [Notable] Reference
Within a few hours, their phlegmatic blandness had begun to pass. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
My co-conspirators were more phlegmatic -- even a little inspiring. From Wordnik.com. [A critic raves: Post reviewer Celia Wren dives into Fringe in 'The Rave Scenes'] Reference
Peter of the phlegmatic, Paul of the choleric and Mark of the sanguine. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
Like something in a nightmare the cold, phlegmatic voice continued slowly. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The operator -- a phlegmatic sort -- gave me directions to the M&R, and off. From Wordnik.com. [The Risk Profession] Reference
Here the people are calm and phlegmatic; their speech is jejune, lacks color. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
At the checkpoint the Serbs must have been lulled by his mild and phlegmatic manners. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Musketeers] Reference
Only the phlegmatic Major Grodski looked normal; his eyes were always about half closed. From Wordnik.com. [Cum Grano Salis] Reference
The overeater is heavy, phlegmatic, indifferent, lacking in energy, tact and initiative. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Some of us articulate rapidly, while others of more phlegmatic temperament speak slowly. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
It resembled an assortment of colorful phlegmatic chromosomes of various sizes (same shape). From Wordnik.com. [My Lucky Tooth] Reference
"He is unpliant, self-sequestered, coarse-grained; beyond all conception easy and phlegmatic.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
I guess I am involved by now, and my initial phlegmatic demeanour is unlikely to wash any more. From Wordnik.com. [Passing Time] Reference
Grace, very susceptible to emotion, had laughed and cried beside her; but Auntie was a phlegmatic person. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The phlegmatic man will live longer, all other things being equal, than the sanguine, nervous individual. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
And, being what he was, the Nipe accepted the unavoidable and pursued his course with phlegmatic equanimity. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
He sees how Vandyck is chafing, but he is puzzled by the little lawyer's phlegmatic acceptance of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Big, awkward phlegmatic Britishers; unhappy beneath all this honouring -- it makes a man feel such a bally goat. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
As she spoke the door to the hall opened and the doctor came in, greeting the three with his usual phlegmatic calm. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The old heathen made out just four humors, as he called 'em, -- the sanguineous, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Disadvantages, however, suit his phlegmatic nature and Rangers are more at ease when there is no obligation to dominate. From Wordnik.com. [For the Old Firm tonight will be as good as Europe gets] Reference
Was it that they seldom saw a play, or was it that the generally phlegmatic Finn once roused is really intensely emotional?. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
While she looked like a goddess dressed by Worth, she seemed merely a good-natured, phlegmatic girl just emerging from her teens. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Thus would they fall back thirty leagues if need be, phlegmatic and unconcerned -- knowing not when defeated and therefore never beaten. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
The illiterate and the learned, the thoughtless and the giddy, the phlegmatic and the sanguine, all confess themselves to be its votaries. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864] Reference
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