self-command

Example Sentences

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Groups of large men and women hurtle at one another to the point of potential endangerment yet manage self-command.

From Washington Post

She has become a player of directed passion, done the admirable work of learning self-command and grown into one of the more courteous and generous champions in the game.

From Washington Post

Thus is the hero of the film, played with charismatic self-command by Denzel Washington, presented as the Spartacus of his people.

From The New Yorker

“He entered the room with a lot of grace and self-command,” his former professor Darrell Wilson recalls, describing Mitchell as “probably one of the most chic students I’ve ever had”.

From The Guardian

He feeds off adrenalin and creative, bold shotmaking, rather than the patient self-command needed here.

From Washington Post