This figure represents the phlegmatic temperament, which reviews its own thoughts in tranquil reflection.
Dürer, certainly, may be cited as an exception, especially when contrasted with his phlegmatic and business-like compatriot Holbein.
The gorgeous and sensual ceremonies which, in the indolent airs of the Mediterranean, were imposing and attractive, palled upon the taste of the more phlegmatic Englishmen.
He seemed more phlegmatic than ever, but he opened his eyes wide when they told him of the dispatch that had been lost and found.
Beneath the granite of his nature and a phlegmatic exterior, he concealed a warm heart that always beat steadfastly for his friends and his country.
Straight, unbending, phlegmaticas usual, she came on.
Even mama suffered with the poor girl, as far as her phlegmatic nature permitted, and it did not permit her to stir from her chimney-corner to tender help to her sickening daughter.
Nan's face was blotted by Alice Johnston's with her phlegmatic husband.
Isabelle had always thought Steve a homely man,--phlegmatic and ordinary in feature.
This he did, and the medal was of course immediately delivered to its phlegmatic oblivious winner!
We are a phlegmatic set, to whom such zests should be dealt out homoeopathically: else do we soon begin to criticise and take exceptions.
You knew that, phlegmatic as a golfer must be who aspires to the greatest achievements, and as this one often was even in the hour of crisis, his heart was now beginning to beat.
There is nothing that is phlegmatic about this Ministerial golfer.
Nevertheless, we would not have it understood that Will was a slow, phlegmatic baby.
Von Glauben, recovering his usual phlegmatic calm; "You would have killed the man she loves best in the world.
The phlegmatic metaphysician and historian only gave a sign of life by repeating the same awkward gesture, and the same ridiculous exclamation, without end.
If you penetrated the mask of oil and coal-dust that was part of his working suit, you found a reddish-brown phlegmatic face, and guessed its age at fifty.
He sat phlegmatic as an Indian idol; and in my fancy I felt the young blood draining from my own heart, and saw it mantling in his cheeks.
Let him enter," said Constantine, with his usual dull phlegmatic voice.
The cabby, phlegmatic to wind and weather, sat on his box, shedding the moisture from his oil-skin coat and facing a cloud of steam which presumably concealed a horse.
Seated on one side was the phlegmatic cashier, and, opposite him, the dealer, equally impassive.
There were great boastings about this personage, extravagant amplifications upon miracles of precocity, mixed with vehement objurgations against thephlegmatic incredulity with which I received them.
But his phlegmatic physiognomy lighted up when he spoke of his only wound, with something resembling satisfaction.
Under his taciturn, phlegmatic behaviour was hidden a faculty of short-lived passionate anger.
Teddy under the wise rule of his sister had lost much of his gaukiness and rough speech but had lost none of his rotundity of form and cool, phlegmatic disposition.
Perhaps his foster-mother and the comfort Ben Flint found in her mild and phlegmatic devotion had something to do with it.
Yet, for all her domestic slatternness, the moment she emerged from private into professional life, her phlegmatic indolence was transformed into quick energy.
Sanin's phlegmatic friend had already had time to have a bath and to array himself in a most sumptuous satin dressing-gown; he had put a crimson fez on his head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phlegmatic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
