An effective temperateness in debate. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a temperate response to an insulting challenge. From Dictionary.com.
Susan Boyle is a model of that virtue (for which 'temperateness' is a better translation than the now-ruined 'temperance'). From Wordnik.com. [MercatorNet] Reference
The first is "restraint, mildness, temperateness.". From Wordnik.com. [12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004] Reference
Living in the strictest economy and temperateness, he hated anything like ostentation. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Now temperance evidently inclines man to this, since its very name implies moderation or temperateness, which reason causes. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
In this sense, whatever its temperateness and generality, the Cairo speech played for higher stakes than any strategist in an earlier mold could have advised or foreseen. —. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to the Prince] Reference
No colony had behaved with so much temperateness and discretion. From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816] Reference
His was a wise and instinctive temperateness that savored of the. From Wordnik.com. [When God Laughs] Reference
His was a wise and instinctive temperateness that savoured of the Greek. From Wordnik.com. [When God Laughs: and other stories] Reference
The very temperateness of the reply made him see that he had been inaccurate. From Wordnik.com. [The Happiest Time of Their Lives] Reference
The former is mainly wisdom; the latter includes temperateness, liberality, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference
On the other hand, the aborigines should be far from the temperateness of marble. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference
In this respect he lived as he preached and practiced temperateness in all things. From Wordnik.com. [Born Again] Reference
The two last commandments enjoin temperateness, but they are not developed in detail. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference
'It's not mere knowledge, it's the gentle temperateness and independence one feels in her.'. From Wordnik.com. [Franklin Kane] Reference
From distant countries they have been brought, and taught to live in the cool temperateness of France. From Wordnik.com. [Men, Women and Ghosts] Reference
And that maketh the plenty and fatness of the earth and temperateness of weather, of air, and of water. From Wordnik.com. [Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus] Reference
That temperateness is at once also justness is self-evident; it is but another phase of the same virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.] Reference
The extreme suggestiveness, and yet the taste and temperateness of this costume, seemed to me inimitable. From Wordnik.com. [Americans and Others] Reference
By observation, for example, I find that temperateness is a virtue, because intemperateness occasions suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference
He kept his face toward the hills, and he did not trouble himself with any useless analysis of his unusual temperateness. From Wordnik.com. [The Uphill Climb] Reference
After I had drunk half a dozen glasses, my policy of temperateness in mind, I decided that I had had enough for that time. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
Hence, too, man himself is here freer of soul than elsewhere, for this temperateness of the climate prevails in all things. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference
So his political prosperity, like the nation's, should benefit from the temperateness that the Massachusetts result dictates. From Wordnik.com. [poststar.com RSS] Reference
Hence, too, man himself is here freer of soul than elsewhere, for this temperateness of the climate prevails in all things. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times] Reference
He wrote with temperateness, and in pitying love of human nature, in the instinctive hope of helping it to know and redeem itself. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
This rather superficial approach is a tad insulting to the basic belief in temperateness, and revenge doesn't sit easily with such a faith. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Times] Reference
"They belong," it was said, with the temperateness of true dignity, "to our old families, and that is something, you know, even in America.". From Wordnik.com. [In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim] Reference
The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. From Wordnik.com. ["This is War"] Reference
The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. From Wordnik.com. [Why We Are at War : Messages to the Congress January to April 1917] Reference
The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgement befitting our character and our motives as a nation. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive U - The new media voice for students] Reference
Pleasure can only be extracted from temperateness; it increases or decreases in proportion to quantity, and he who takes sparingly, lives longer to enjoy the most. From Wordnik.com. [Born Again] Reference
In such conditions the smallest brain was bound to expand, to take on qualities of judgment and temperateness which would never be developed in ordinary circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Lights] Reference
So, whether you're drinking to the "impending temperateness" or drowning your summerless sorrow, come join us at Hang Fire from 5: 30 to 7: 30 as we fill the place with. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It needs someone with Senator Obama's understanding, temperateness, deliberativeness, maturity, compassion, toughness, and faith, to help us rebuild our house once again. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll] Reference
When it is considered that there is no public-house in all the island and that seven thousand souls dwell therein, some idea may be gained of the temperateness of the community. From Wordnik.com. [The Strength of the Strong] Reference
"The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. From Wordnik.com. [Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights] Reference
It needs someone with Senator Obama's understanding, temperateness, deliberativeness, maturity, pragmatism, toughness and faith. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Springsteen: Hello Cleveland] Reference
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