sang-froid

Duperré was certainly nothing if not ingenious and his sang-froid had saved us all from terms of imprisonment.

With what pride and sang-froid had Robert announced his uninvited guest!

This only proves that you are incomparable as a lieutenant, but that you have not the sang-froid of a general.

But Jim Courtenaye's sang-froid is a tribute to the cinema life he must have led even before he burst into the war.

She studied its rapid progress with all the sang-froid of a physician.

He could not understand the calm and sang-froid of these four men in presence of such an awful event.

She proceeded to make general remarks in a noticeably forced tone of sang-froid, from which she soon lapsed into silence.

"Nothing at all," he said with the sang-froid of the experienced traveler.

She had the strength and sang-froid of a woman in the prime of life.

Little by little he recovered his sang-froid, looking at matters from the lofty heights of his artist's philosophy.