self-possession
Example Sentences
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"Hathaway is a model of steely self-possession masking vulnerability; Pattinson bites into his character's villainy with gusto."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
But nothing comes across more clearly in “Queen of Chess” than Judit Polgár’s unruffled self-possession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
It’s given me this facility, and this self-possession.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2024
She is a poignant picture of frayed dignity, her aristocratic self-possession increasingly brittle as the story progresses toward it sad denouement.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
And now at last Odysseus would have perished, battered inhumanly, but he had the gift of self-possession from grey-eyed Athena.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
