collectedness

Example Sentences

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I’ve gotten it into my head that if I resist the urge to look through it, it will somehow project a veneer of calm or cool collectedness, the path I’m carving in the carpet notwithstanding.

From US News • Feb. 11, 2015

I give in to my gee-whiz moment and ask if he minds a picture with me and the fam – so much for my veneer of cool collectedness.

From US News • Feb. 11, 2015

To all this, Lucy—now entirely unmenaced in person—replied in the gentlest and most heavenly manner; yet with a collectedness, and steadfastness, from which there was nothing to hope.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Recuperation and collectedness get their due without its costing too much to action.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

Sally gasped, and clenched her mittened hands hard upon the reins as she remembered that Lorton’s by-trail skirted the edge of a very steep bank, but she lost neither her collectedness nor her nerve.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold