Dispositions

Usage examples of moods.

In certain moods Elgar could not change from one seat to another without its being brought to his mind that he had moved by necessity.

Eleanor, and the dark moods which now and then held her in sullen solitude.

From that moment on, his temper was less hair-trigger, his moods less black.

He was still given to dark moods, sudden rages, bleak depressions--but the patches of sunlight lasted longer all the time, the smiles came more frequently, he was beginning to make jokes.

Even in its quieter moods, the surging stream, foaming down the middle of a rock-strewn floodplain many times wider than itself, had the greenish, cloudy cast of glacial runoff.

And I have felt a good deal of secret contempt for her father, with his moods and tenses, his pill-boxes and his plasters, his feastings and his fastings.

I think a mother, especially, ought to learn to enter into the gayer moods of her children at the very moment when her own heart is sad.

Margaret Cooper--ardent, commanding, and impatient, hourly found occasion, even in the secluded village where she dwelt, for the exercise of moods equally adverse to propriety and happiness.

In a moment, with the acquisition of new moods, he had acquired a new aspect.

They did not lessen her sense of suffering, perhaps, but they were not without their effect in producing other moods, which, once taken in company with the darker ones of the soul, may, in time, succeed in alleviating them.

The soul takes its color from the cloud, and changes its moods as often.

Dark and terrible were the excited moods in which she retired from her toils to that slumber which she could not always secure.

He had a penchant For being cruel, and his moods changed like the wind.

Besides, he knew and understood Paula much better than anyone else did, and he had always been able to accurately gauge her moods, even when she was putting up a front.

As a child she had often been the victim of his whims and moods and temperamental outbursts.