self-composure

The man pulled himself together, and faced us with an effort at self-composure.

Finally the Major struggled to put his famed self-composure to the test.

It is more important that I should retain my dignity and self-composure.

I have lost my self-composure and must recover it.

Kafka seemed truly touched, his self-composure disturbed for a moment.

It took all my self-composure to conceal the effect of these memories and to answer the lady's continuing questions in good order.

I struggled to hold on to my self-composure.

Wrecks my self-composure, which is the key to my survival.

He had noticed the woman's remarkable coolness, her self-composure.

And he has not half the intimate knowledge of death, an absolute requisite of self-composure.

The duchess arrived first, arms spread wide in greeting, and Gretchen lost her self-composure again.

If suddenly that unwanted splash looks like jeopardising your self-composure on the stage of life, good advice is hard to come by.

Genevieve, normally a model of self-composure, was almost hissing.

Jonathan struggled to regain his self-composure.

His self-composure, his nonchalant friendliness she knew they were meant to both charm and seduce her.

The habit of fear and anger, or the habit of self-composure and courage.

I took flight also, running toward the city, and only regained my self-composure, on reaching the boulevards, where I met belated people.

Omally's self-composure was a marvel to behold. '

I paused, slightly stunned at this one time I had ever seen Sallustius drop his perpetual mask of calm and self-composure.

David Cameron remarked to allies that he was especially struck by Obama's self-composure at a time when the polls and the atmospherics were turning against him.

With her wavy blond hair, flashing blue eyes, painted nails, slim figure, patrician features, and immense self-composure, she had often been compared to Garbo.

Perry Rhodan stood behind Thomas and listened with his usual self-composure to a signal replay that had been picked up on the hypercom channel.

Then we repeated Kate Winslet's mantra of self-composure, which she deployed during her second Golden Globe speech last month.

Until she was freed, Asha, an extraordinary young woman with beatific self-composure and a dazzling smile, was a so-called Kamlari girl.

His garish attire and self-composure only irked Seven further because she was currently sweltering in one of her light gray bodysuits, which rarely felt so restrictive.