tempered

ideology was tempered with pragmatism.

their idealism is tempered with realism.

a portfolio that is tempered to the investor's needs.

a sword of tempered steel.

he was a gentle and even-tempered man.

an overbearing, ill-tempered brute.

admiration tempered with fear. intensify

She’s quite a quick-tempered woman.

The application of nonhardened and tempered steel is predicted.

soldiers who had been tempered by combat.

an even-tempered character

temper clay; paints that had been tempered with oil.

He is good-tempered; he gets along with everyone.

They were careful to keep their distance from the ill-tempered professor.

He grew more and more bad-tempered as the afternoon wore on.

A knife is sharpened on the grindstone;steel is tempered in fire.

Gerty sparkled too, or at least shone with a tempered radiance .

However, hope should be tempered by realism.

Yet if so, perhaps renewables should be tempered elsewhere.

And to be at its best, chocolate needs to be tempered.

He is a sweet tempered, amiable, charming man. He cannot know what Mr. Darcy is.

The beauty about tempered chocolate is it sets very quickly.

And we're going to spread tempered chocolate.

ALICE WINKLER: It's a joy terribly tempered, though, by those agonies of defeat, as he calls them.

Double-paned and tempered. UV rays can't penetrate. You see the appeal now? -Hmm.

They're all tempered with sorrow, but it's softened and it's tender.

The news is also tempered by the latest data from the Amazon rainforest.