Good Tempered

It was at once affectionate and unsentimental, satirical and good-tempered, orthodox and highly intelligent. ❋ Linda (2009)

Casson's good-tempered account of the trip in Red Lacquer Days 1956 is contradicted by Ayer's memory of the "dislike which SS Spencer and I quickly came to feel for one another". ❋ Frances Wood (2010)

A big, simple, good-tempered man, slow to anger, who cut his food into tiny pieces and spoke with a slight lisping awkwardness because most of his teeth had been lost to battle or age. ❋ Anna Elliott (2010)

Cobhar, whose name meant "foam," was good-tempered, but a sound, spirited 14-hand gelding, nonetheless, and a far cry from the brown pony. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After hundreds of hours of DVD viewing, gallons of industrial strength coffee and a fair few good-tempered arguments with yours truly and other members of the Spec team, it has fallen to Pete to select our 50 top films. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I confess myself addicted to this soothing soup or ragout, its nursery friendliness, its good-tempered simplicity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Editors are just like anybody else -- they like working with people who are good-tempered and dependable. ❋ Karenmiller (2007)

Edward laughs his good-tempered laugh, and lets the insult go, but Richard storms off to his lands in the north, taking his obedient wife Anne Neville with him, and sets himself up as a northern princeling, refusing to come south to us, believing himself to be the only true York of England, the only true heir to his father in his enmity with France. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2009)

Montrose could bring this man, thoroughly good-tempered as he was on all occasions, save when his pride, interest, or prejudices, were interfered with. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His character was quiet and reserved, though he was described by the landscape painter B. W. Leader as ‘most good-tempered, liberal and hospitable, fond of a joke’ ibid., 3.141. ❋ Hermes (2008)

First Impression: Cyrus is pictured as a good-tempered gentleman with a creative and intellectual flair, but his talents make him a bit egocentric. ❋ Bruce Lansky (2008)

From atop the platform, Benedict looked over a vast, good-tempered throng dotted with blue-and-white Bavarian flags and the yellow-and-white Vatican banners. ❋ Unknown (2006)