sang-froid

Example Sentences

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Although Piastri is by nature a down-to-earth personality, who lets nothing apparently ruffle his sang-froid, he may have been thinking of this when he summed up his feelings on his third place.

From BBC • May 18, 2025

Dressed monochromatically, four steely actors bring sang-froid to the courtroom proceedings.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022

Macron then visits Kyiv and praises the "sang-froid" of Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian people.

From Reuters • Feb. 21, 2022

Photographed for Time magazine shortly after the publication of “Slouching,” she seemed a paragon of sang-froid, posing in front of her yellow Corvette Stingray with a cigarette in hand.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2021

Grave-robbing became an industry, albeit a small one requiring an exceptional degree of sang-froid.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson