How To Use Temporize In A Sentence

  • The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
  • For an album so reflective of a certain musical style and sound, The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele manages to contemporise itself without sounding ridiculous. Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • At the present time, no action was needed, and it was pleasant to procrastinate, to temporize without feeling guilty about it. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • He, by contrast, is a trimmer and temporizer who has stood up for tyrants far more than he has stood up to them.
  • I'm discovering that I like Danilaw a lot -- he's got the ability to extemporize political speeches like a trained skald and he's also pretty funny. Don't expect your good heart to save your neck
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  • The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote
  • EPA had attempted to temporize by allowing California to take " reasonable extra efforts " to comply.
  • For a while, the Treasury can temporize with creative accounting, shifting money from one pile to another, and the like. The Debt Ceiling Fiasco
  • Against his will and against his nature he began to temporize, meaning later to revenge his present humiliation upon his son. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl
  • Moderate leaders continue to temporize and avoid coming to grips with extremists.
  • I don't really think they are very deadly, and I know our extemporized fuses are slower than our voyage is at the present time; but nevertheless the bombs have served the purpose, as you shall see. CHAPTER XLVII
  • I was just happy to be able to put my own stamp on it and contemporize it a little bit, but really pay a lot of homage to the original intentions of the songwriters there. Mike Ragogna: Review: My Morning Jacket "Unstaged," Plus Chatting with Erykah Badu and James Tormé
  • Two days I lay there, too sick to move, and on the third, reeling and giddy, supporting myself on an extemporized crutch, I tottered on toward San Francisco. THE DREAM OF DEBS
  • The prime minister temporized and allowed things to drift.
  • Behind the jiggermast I lighted the fuse of one of my extemporized bombs. CHAPTER XLVII
  • He will probably try to do what he always has done: make no clear choice and temporize.
  • They temporize only when political factors prohibit action.
  • They desired to temporise until their leader came. The War in the Air
  • There have been times in the past when they temporized, stumbled, or failed to advance their agendas.
  • The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporise as occasion arises. Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals
  • What we did was contemporize it," Ms. Gibson-Ullman says of the changes. 'Modern Colonial' in New Canaan
  • He carried it well, the only noticeable effects being a flush in his eyes and a loosening of his tongue to whimsical fancies and extemporized chants. CHAPTER XXIX
  • The government cannot profess a commitment to upholding and protecting human rights when, on the international stage, we go out of our way to temporise with tyranny. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Gorbachev was more of a juggler, somebody who would kind of temporize, try to find compromises eternally, and that was very important. Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
  • Louis did not exactly say no, but he temporized and did not say yes, either.
  • The speaker can extemporize on any of a number of subjects.
  • Approaching the island, the images of huge mist-shrouded crags say it all but Parris feels the need to extemporise and effuse, piling adverb upon adverb into a tower of babbling.
  • At the present time, no action was needed, and it was pleasant to procrastinate, to temporize without feeling guilty about it. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • We examined game day and wanted to contemporise and make the focus on football. Russell Crowe Adds Another Baby To His Fightin’ Army
  • Bach admired the theme, extemporised a fugue on it, and said that he would make a copperplate of it.
  • Lute crawled out from under the piano, and was joined by Rita and Ernestine in an extemporized dance of the harpies about the slain. CHAPTER III
  • Before you temporize and go too far with the fish grab agenda, you need to first determine where we are actually losing the fish. Striped Bass Are Gamefish
  • Left in charge, he temporized, agonized, and cursed the fates.
  • Then there are home-made fifes and whistles and drums, combs covered with paper, extemporized triangles, and bones made from ribs of salt horse such as negro minstrels use. CHAPTER XLIII
  • Does a good carver temporize to carve his seal?
  • Why ought he to know?" asked Imogene, doubtless with that impulse to temporise which is natural to the human soul in questions of right and interest. Indian Summer
  • Although I preferred the more wide-open possibilities found in Anders 'Fast Forward anthologies (I was struck by how many of the stories in this collection touched on contemporized Aztec culture, Sherlock Holmes, and French-controlled Louisiana), Sideways in Crime proved an entertaining read in its own right. And speaking of Stargate...
  • Cowardice is called meekness; to temporize is to be charitable and reverent; to speak truth, and shame the devil, is to offend weak brethren, who, somehow or other, never complain of their weak consciences till you hit them hard. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
  • The A-Team has a huge following and these comics, much like the upcoming film, contemporize this enormously popular action-adventure franchise and deliver fresh, compelling stories and art to the fans, said Virginia King, Vice President U.S. THE A-TEAM Comic Book Series Will Act as a Prequel to the Movie – Cover Art and Info Here – Collider.com
  • Galbraith and Paul have brightly colored fabrics and Villa Romo and Jim Thompson contemporized the small geometric pattern. Kim Alexandriuk: Orientalism for the Modern World
  • At the present time, no action was needed, and it was pleasant to procrastinate, to temporize without feeling guilty about it. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • Walsingham describes as fickle as a reed, siding at one time with the lords and at another time with the king (689) — Richard was driven to temporise. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
  • At the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago, former president Herbert Hoover used a teleprompter to address delegates but lost his place after breaking off to extemporize. Engineer's Device Eased Speechmakers' Minds
  • They exercised verbal terror against politicians, making them temporize and postpone the solution.
  • He did not care to ascertain if she had replenished the lilacs in the tower room, and, at lunch, which was shared with three farm college students from Davis, he found himself forced to extemporize a busy afternoon for himself when Paula tentatively suggested that she would drive Graham up from Eldorado. CHAPTER XXV
  • Company (IHC), feels the first shutdown in its more than hundred years of existence has helped the company modernise and contemporise the historic Palace wing of the hotel. The Economic Times
  • We proposed to make it a Midshipman Easy duel, a three-cornered fight -- Brothers Homan and Benson vs. the "Apostle," but they wiggled in and they wiggled out, they temporized and tergiversated until we saw there wasn't an ounce of fight in the whole Prohibition crew -- that, after their flamboyant defi, we couldn't pull 'em into a joint debate with a span of mules and a log-cabin. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
  • Bella's ancestry and adding to it an extemporized welcome back to ON THE MAKALOA MAT
  • Strether was an abrupt reaction, a final impatience of his own tendency to temporise. The Ambassadors
  • It's about the brutal perfidy of the Conservative government, its gall, its utter lack of class, its willingness to cover up, to prevaricate, to temporize: hell, to lie its way out of a tight spot. Archive 2009-11-01
  • And you think to temporise, to make some scheme of compromise, that will enable you to live in your way while that — that machinery — lives in its. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
  • These are just many examples and it is not the intention here, to beat down on modern western flourish or artists that contemporise themselves. FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
  • Obscurantism; or wait, and temporise and diplomatise, till, if possible, our resources mature themselves a little? The French Revolution
  • Instead, Mr. Richert and his son Nicholas took the key roles in the contemporized Three Musketeers tale. Here's Lookin' At You
  • He completely departed from the text and extemporized in a very energetic fashion.
  • Tightly held by one family for 30 years, here is the chance of a lifetime to enjoy readymade comfort and easy living, or contemporise the current home to maximise the large block with ocean glimpses and a prized position. WN.com - Financial News
  • Even though Ferrera plans to "contemporize" the tale, with Forest on board my money's still on the latter project to be the much more interesting. Who should play Frank Sinatra?
  • Ferdinand perceived his drift, and thanked him for his generous offer, which he would not fail to consider with all due deliberation; though he was determined against the proposal, but obliged to temporise, that he might not incur the displeasure of this man, at whose mercy he lay. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
  • He completely departed from the text and extemporized in a very energetic fashion.
  • Sagasta, who, to temporize with America, recalled the inflexible The Philippine Islands
  • You can temporise and you are capable of enormous procrastination, but you cannot depart entirely from your Creator, Who set the limits on your ability to miscreate .
  • Never mind that he later temporized this statement, and that his wife seemed to imply that after a few hours of ecstasy she was practically begging him to rush back into the studio and come up with more words to rhyme with "clover" and "bumbershoot. Bob Wallace: The Goddesses at Starbucks, Part III
  • The government cannot profess a commitment to upholding and protecting human rights when, on the international stage, we go out of our way to temporise with tyranny," Leon said in a Human Rights ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Behind the jiggermast I lighted the fuse of one of my extemporized bombs. CHAPTER XLVII
  • She was out of her league, and fed a script she didn't know enough about to extemporize. Election Central Morning Roundup
  • And Dick jingled away into the house still chanting his extemporized directory. CHAPTER XVI
  • Things turned for Truman when his aides hit on the idea of liberating him from his speech texts: They gave him talking points and let him extemporize. Robert Schlesinger: Memo to Tom Hanks: Barack Obama Is No Harry Truman
  • It was a reminder that for the past 16 years Americans have had two Presidents who would often extemporise and express emotion.
  • we're remaking Total Recall -- "for a new generation of fans" -- Columbia Pictures has announced their choice for who will direct this "contemporized" take on Philip K. Dick's I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
  • So we took advantage of that to restore the hotel and contemporise and modernise it to the tastes of the modern traveller. The Economic Times
  • Negotiating in bad faith, intending to temporise for some purpose or otherwise mislead the counterparty into thinking that the temporiser was intending to reach a settlement, would probably fall within this wording.
  • The day was marked too, by a grant feast of "stodge," doughboys, and jam, stodge being a delicacy extemporised for the occasion, consisting of "flour boiled with water to the consistency of paste, with some small pieces of raw meat thrown into it"!! Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
  • 'Not exactly, sir,' temporized Sloan.
  • Now is the time to revisit and "contemporize" the Condominium Act. After all, if the social housing sector has been afforded that latitude, why not the condominium sector? Toronto Sun
  • The slow and ugly approach is to mitigate, temporize and forestall to give us time to work ourselves out of difficulties. Notable & Quotable
  • He has to extemporize because he has forgotten to bring his note.
  • Hancock had the visuals and naturalism that could nicely contemporize Ghostbusters, and the only thing that would hold this baby back is the script (Hancock's biggest problem). Columbia Might Well Want To Replace Ivan Reitman For Ghostbusters 3, But They’ll Need To Get His Approval First | /Film
  • In a dynamic and cleverly contemporized production from New York's Theater For A New Audience, The Merchant is again made fearfully relevant, 400 or so years after its composition, when we surprise again occupy a society where money, power, and religion combine in ugly ways. Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times
  • Gandhi down to third, who can only expect to drop further if he continues his stubborn refusal to contemporise his image like Gone Hollywood
  • The council had temporized on quite crucial decisions.
  • A harper may have more than one journeyman," Moran temporized quickly, hoping that his surprise at K'lur's news hadn't shown on his face. Dragon's Fire
  • he extemporized a speech at the wedding
  • If there's anything more fun than taking apart a workshop poem, it's to read the blurbs poets are sometimes expected to extemporize, to justify/apologize for/self-deprecatingly praise/preemptively neuter their own poetry. Anis Shivani: America's Most Prominent Emerging Poets Respond to the Obama Administration
  • He began to extend his repertoire: extemporize, enrich, invent. GALILEE
  • The large tea-houses contain the possibilities for a number of rooms which can be extemporised at once by sliding paper panels, called fusuma, along grooves in the floor and in the ceiling or cross-beams. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • Finally we came into an extemporized village, where some women, unveiled and ugly, advised us to apply to the traders in the khan, or caravansera. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
  • Bennett is not sure what that new format is, other than TVNZ wants to "freshen" the programme and to "contemporise it". New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
  • At his order, she threw her weight on the end of a quickly extemporized handspike, easing the pressure and listening to her husband's groans, while Malemute Kid attacked the tree with his axe. The White Silence
  • Bennett is not sure what that new format is, other than TVNZ wants to "freshen" the programme and to "contemporise it". New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
  • He began to extend his repertoire: extemporize, enrich, invent. GALILEE
  • Rather than a total package innovation, Tropicana would have been wise to contemporize slightly, making sure its "ownable" brand assets were left intact. Marketing Profs Daily Fix
  • Leaders temporize and dither for short-term advantage.
  • Sometimes he is assisted by ropes extemporized from the long convolvuli which hang from almost every tree, but not always, these being deemed superfluities by the How I Found Livingstone
  • He began to extend his repertoire: extemporize, enrich, invent. GALILEE
  • For some reason I assumed 'contemporized' just meant better effects. Equilibrium Screenwriter To Pen Total Recall Remake | /Film
  • Your partner opens one diamond, you respond one spade, he bids two clubs and you temporize with two hearts. Bridge
  • Since my present need was to temporise, and give the impression that I might be talked into their ghastly scheme, I played it as they would expect from the redoubtable Flashy, indignation forgotten, narrow-eyed and considering, asking shrewd questions: How could they be sure Franz-Josef would offer us bed and board? Watershed
  • This "Moft pleafaunt and excellent conceited Comedie" as it was described in its first published version, anticipates today's TV sit-coms, and is ripe for a contemporized theatrical treatment. Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage
  • Faced with these charged events, prepackaged emotions already in place, we can only stitch together a set of emergency scenarios, just as our sleeping minds extemporize a narrative from the unrelated memories that veer through the cortical night. Ballardian » Escaping the gaze: A review of John Foxx's Tiny Colour Movies
  • You really have to know the melody inside out and that allows you to embellish, to extemporize on it with freedom. Mike Ragogna: Review: My Morning Jacket "Unstaged," Plus Chatting with Erykah Badu and James Tormé
  • The speaker can extemporize on any of a number of subjects.
  • The other candidates in that election, had one of them won, would have continued to temporize, while Lincoln, in his own seemingly tentative style, refused to budge on the Republican Party's raison d'etre of no expansion of slavery into the territories. John Marszalek: What if Lincoln lost the election?
  • Walsingham describes as fickle as a reed, siding at one time with the lords and at another time with the king (689) — Richard was driven to temporise. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
  • Kevin's debut is part of Archie Comics 'larger efforts to contemporize the characters' world. Kevin Keller debuts as first openly gay character in Archie's Veronica Comics

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