Thesaurus / aplomb
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It’s a dire and dramatic opening scene, narrated with aplomb.
‘LEAN FALL STAND’ OPENS WITH A LITERAL CLIFFHANGER YOU WON’T SOON FORGETJON MICHAUDSEPTEMBER 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHe even handled his small mistakes—like when Zhao had to gently nudge him to the fact that they were rolling—with easy aplomb.
THE BEST, WORST AND STRANGEST MOMENTS OF THE 2021 OSCARSANDREW R. CHOWAPRIL 26, 2021TIMEHe snipped the pink fabric with aplomb, continuing a tradition from a half-century ago, when Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the eldest daughter of Teddy Roosevelt, performed the honor for the Embassy Row Hotel.
OPENING A NEW HOTEL IS NEVER EASY. TRY DOING IT DURING A PANDEMIC.ANDREA SACHSMARCH 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMedium format was never about being the fastest or the most efficient—it was about producing big, beautiful images, and the 907X does that with aplomb.
HASSELBLAD’S NEW $6,400 CAMERA IS WEIRD AND WONDERFULSTAN HORACZEKJANUARY 2, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE"No," she exclaimed with dainty aplomb to the man who sat cross-legged in muslin draperies on the table.
HILDASARAH JEANETTE DUNCANI had behaved with unusual sedateness, had showed an aplomb I had never before evidenced.
TRAMPING ON LIFEHARRY KEMPWinona, with surprising aplomb, bore the scrutiny of the family while she pulled long white gloves along her bare arms.
THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSONChattie jumped up on the windowsill, with her usual stealthy aplomb, and rubbed herself against the girl's face.
ROBERT ELSMEREMRS. HUMPHRY WARDSuddenly, and for the first time in all her knowledge of him, his cynical aplomb had fallen from the man like a garment.
THE SHADOW OF THE ROPEE. W. HORNUNGFor a few seconds he was utterly bereft of his usual aplomb.
RAYTON: A BACKWOODS MYSTERYTHEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTSWORDS RELATED TO APLOMB
- aplomb
- assurances
- backbones
- boldness
- brashness
- certainties
- cool
- courage
- darings
- dashes
- determinations
- elans
- faith in oneselfs
- fearlessness
- firmness
- fortitude
- grit
- hardihoods
- hearts
- impudence
- intrepidities
- mettle
- morale
- nerves
- pluck
- poise
- presumptions
- reliance
- resoluteness
- resolutions
- self-possessions
- self-reliances
- spirits
- spunks
- sureness
- tenacity
- élans
- adroitness
- affability
- aplomb
- breeze
- child's play
- cinch
- cleverness
- composure
- dexterity
- dispatch
- duck soup
- easygoingness
- efficiency
- effortlessness
- expertise
- expertness
- familiarity
- flexibility
- fluency
- informality
- insouciance
- knack
- liberty
- naturalness
- nonchalance
- poise
- pushover
- quickness
- readiness
- relaxedness
- setup
- simplicity
- skillfulness
- smooth sailing
- smoothness
- snap
- unaffectedness
- unconstraint
- unreservedness
- affability
- aplomb
- breeze
- casualness
- child's play
- cinch
- cleverness
- composure
- dexterity
- dispatch
- duck soup
- easiness
- easygoingness
- efficiency
- effortlessness
- expertise
- expertness
- familiarity
- flexibility
- fluency
- insouciance
- knack
- liberty
- naturalness
- nonchalance
- poise
- pushover
- quickness
- readiness
- relaxedness
- setup
- simplicity
- skillfulness
- smooth sailing
- smoothness
- snap
- spontaneity
- unaffectedness
- unceremoniousness
- unconstraint
- unreservedness
- unrestraint
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