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 • Jan. 8, 2021
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 • Aug. 9, 2018
I take the phrase as an instruction, a self-command.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2017
But to me, that absence of self-command suggests more than mere flightiness.
From Slate • Nov. 2, 2016
“It comes to the same thing. I can have no self-command without a motive. You order me, whether you speak or not. And you can be always with me. You are always with me.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
