distempered in a sentence

• In such distempered times, this is a shining opportunity for the Senate.
• It is a foundation, even in distempered times, from which to build.
• The walls of the Chapel were distempered over, hiding the murals from view.
• Uccello was asked to paint a number of scenes of distempered animals for the house of the Medici.
• In May 1852 red flock wallpaper designed to simulate 16th-century Italian velvets was supplied from distempered colours.
• Yeltsin should himself have long ago resigned : fitful and distempered, he is manifestly not up to the task of running Russia.
• Inside, the original walls and dome were distempered but this was later removed, revealing the decorations to be carved in stone.
• Although established democracies may be able to weather the rule of the distempered or the disabled, two other kinds of country may not.
• Water would be via a standpipe which had to be within and sanitation provided by a dedicated toilet block, usually with an distempered.
• Distempered surfaces can be easily marked and discoloured, and cannot be washed down, so distemper is best suited to temporary and interior decoration.
• It's difficult to see distempered in a sentence .
• The full title of Parry's poetry book is " Sinetes passions vppon his fortunes offered for an incense at the shrine of the ladies which guided his distempered thoughtes.
• The technique of painting on distempered surfaces blends watercolors with whiting and glue . " The colours are mixed with whitening, or finely-ground chalk, and tempered with size.
• These he calls an Exhibition, of which he has published a Catalogue, or rather a farrago of nonsense, unintelligibleness, and egregious vanity, the wild effusions of a distempered brain.
• However, the most repugnant act in the coaching carousel this week is not a dismissal, but rather the prospective hiring of a distempered man named Robert Montgomery Knight as the coach at Texas Tech.
• The right aisle-on the southern side-was built in 1910-1920 together with the chapel dedicated to the Immaculate and it was distempered by the painter Primo Panciroli ( 1944 ) from Rome.
• "& But when the ebullitions of a distempered brain are mistaken for the sallies of genius by those whose works have exhibited the soundest thinking in art, the malady has indeed attained a pernicious height, and it becomes a duty to endeavour to arrest its progress.
• Thomas Randolph wrote that Arran'has twice before been in the same case,'and his mother and aunts were'certain times or the most part of the year distempered with an unquiet humour .'( Randolph's description of Arran's symptoms sound akin to modern diagnoses of mania and bipolar disorder although his exact psychological condition will remain unknown .)
• Trying to reel distempered North Korea into the orb of rational behavior is tough enough to do but at the same time, the U . S . goes public that two North Korean diplomats who defected in Egypt have been given for-now temporary sanctuary by the U . S ., and that a bonus of our acceptance of them may be the availability of secret information of North Korean missile sales.
• Symmes had sent his declaration ( at considerable cost to himself ) to " each notable foreign government, reigning prince, legislature, city, college, and philosophical societies, throughout the union, and to individual members of our National Legislature, as far as the five hundred copies would go . " Symmes'son Americus wrote of the reaction to " Circular No . 1 " in 1878, recounting " [ i ] ts reception by the public can easily be imagined; it was overwhelmed with ridicule as the production of a distempered imagination, or the result of partial insanity.
• In accepting the nomination, Etheridge blasted the Brownlow administration as an " ignorant, brutal and irresponsible despotism, " and stated the goal of the Conservative campaign was to end the " meanest tyranny which was ever hatched in the foul air of distempered times . " Brownlow's newspaper, the " Knoxville Whig ", derided Etheridge as a " blas?party scullion, the Thersites of the stump, the trafficker of the most foul, vulgar and filthy slang ever spewed by an obscene mind upon the hustings " whose " violent passions always carried him to offensive extremes . " The " Whig " further suggested that Conservatives reluctantly chose Etheridge out of desperation after more plausible Conservatives rejected the nomination.