tempered

But for some of us, while its closing was sad, it was a tempered sadness.

And the days in which a director, even Alfred Hitchcock, can get him for a million are gone the way of the sweet-tempered usher.

Needless to say, a certain famously hot-tempered five-term senator and former presidential candidate was not at all amused.

Those were the valuable aspects of womanhood at the time: being pretty and even-tempered and sweet.

However, Tyrion is portrayed as even-tempered and intelligent, an underrated force of his own.

There was a band playing down at Klein's hotel, and the strains reached them faintly, tempered by the distance.

Hexam watched her with an amused indulgence that in no wise tempered his mounting admiration.

"I wonder you keep such an ugly tempered brute about the house," retorted the woman.

Reaching into one of the secret pockets of his wide black belt he removed a curiously shaped tool of finest tempered steel.

From those odd eyes of his, his countenance gathered an air of superciliousness tempered by a gentle melancholy.