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

It will be a nervous hour for our pew, though we hear that he acquits himself with as much ease and collectedness, as if he had been used to it all his life. 

From Memoir of Jane Austen by Austen-Leigh, James Edward

His usual calm collectedness was entirely lost in his over-mastering passion; and thus, between his defective vision and his agitated nerves, many of his shots were wasted.

From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.

And yet—were the alarm again to be given, no man in that camp would be more readily on the spot, the very personification of cool and calm collectedness.

From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram