intemperate

• “As such it takes us back to the days when Cameron was denouncing anyone who backed Grammar Schools in intemperate terms or rejecting any contrary position as ‘pointless’ or deluded or whatever.”

  Archive 2008-03-02

• “People called him on it (some perhaps in intemperate ways, others not, but they were right and he was mistaken).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Slate, movie stars, and left-wing dictators:

• “Unfortunately, Hailey himself ended up engaging in intemperate attacks on Wizbang’s site.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Columbia Journalism Review on CBS and the forged documents.

• “They figure if they can make Sonia Sotomayor appear "too liberal," "too activist," or "intemperate" -- and cause Obama to withdraw her nomination, or if they can defeat her outright -- they can slow the Obamomentum that's leading to universal health care, cap-and-trade, more spending on education, and higher taxes on the rich.”

  Sotomayor and the Republicans

• “In like manner neither can it be called intemperate: and in this respect there is dissimilarity between justice and the other moral virtues; but as regards the proportion between operation and habit, there is similarity in all respects.”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “The intemperate are the persons to whom these expostulations should be addressed.”

  Select Temperance Tracts

• “At no period of life was I ever what men call intemperate; I never was in the habit of intoxication [the italics are Poe's]; I never drank drams, et cetera; but for a brief period, while I resided in Richmond and edited the Messenger, I certainly did give way, at long intervals, to the temptation held out on all sides to the spirit of Southern conviviality.”

  Edgar Allan Poe -- After Fifty Years

• “It should be noted -- and the distinction is of importance -- that the affections of a grave character most frequently produced by the alcoholic habit do not ensue as a consequence of what could be rightly called intemperate taking of the drug, -- its moderate use more commonly resulting in serious disease than when it is taken in great excess.”

  Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene

• “They are not what would be called intemperate, nor are they licentious.”

  The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532

• “GWEN IFILL: Appearing in Chester, Pennsylvania, as part of a final tour of battleground states, Obama recalled another intemperate campaign day.”

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