disposition

• She didn't sleep at all that first night, tossed and turned until she made herself dizzy, and by morning, her disposition was as charming as a rhino's. —  Garwood, Julie - Killjoy.html
• Liszt hasn't the nervous irritability common to artists, but on the contrary his disposition is the most exquisite and tranquil in the world. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great: Great Musicians, by Elbert Hubbard
• The only solid proof of this disposition will be an explicit acknowledgment of these States or the withdrawing his fleets and armies The British commissioners remained several months in the country and made many and various attempts to accomplish the objects of their mission, but without success. —  Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2
• His attempt to reach the Niger shewed that his disposition was ardent and enterprising, and that, but for untoward circumstances, he would have effected his object. —  Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
• Underlying the argument and the disposition is a hunch that the after-image of residue may be a critique and an antidote to the narrative conceit of progress. —  Kafila

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