sang-froid

Although Piastri is by nature a down-to-earth personality, who lets nothing apparently ruffle his sang-froid, he may have been thinking of this when he summed up his feelings on his third place.

While some scenes of verbal and physical violence are troubling enough to make you fear for Houel’s mental health, she rises to the occasion with astonishing sang-froid, quietly haunted then seething in the second act.

He sang with warmth and beauty and acted with the brittle sang-froid of someone trying to maintain sanity in a madhouse.

But the swiftness of the government’s actions belied Mr. Xi’s sang-froid.

The song’s concision is almost as devastating as its sang-froid.