self-possession

The 20-year-old back row has swagger and self-possession, and a side order of skulduggery.

Then Ms Rault noted that the man in the glass cage in Avignon demonstrated a similar self-possession and saw it as further evidence that this was a deeply calculating criminal.

It’s given me this facility, and this self-possession.

She is a poignant picture of frayed dignity, her aristocratic self-possession increasingly brittle as the story progresses toward it sad denouement.

This self-possession is apparent in one of the six photographs published as part of Detour’s 1995 music issue.