self-composure
Example Sentences
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“Strong but never pushy, she had self-composure and poise beyond her years,” the obituary said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023
Faces and Phases is both testimony and archive, the portraits accompanied by personal statements that speak of struggle, but also self-composure and pride.
From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2020
Deborah, a paragon of self-composure, sailed through without a slip.
From Time Magazine Archive
The New York Times, which sets great store on self-composure, paddled sedately through the flood of news.
From Time Magazine Archive
The calm in the one face is more that of habitual softness and ease of humour; the calm in the other is more that of dignified, though tolerant, self-composure.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
