self-composure

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

A government that apportions high grades to itself on its supposed achievements should also retain self-composure when a revolution is mentioned.

He has a kind of deadpan self-composure. He's a bit like George 'Foghorn' Winslow, the solemn little lad who contemplated Marilyn Monroe without cracking a smile in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

But his self-composure also hid a fierce temper, said Ali Hosan, an al-Gamaliya resident.

I wish Hrachya patience and self-composure and his new lawyers success in what they will do," Meltsev

I did address that letter to Isa Qassim last week in refined and courteous language, avoiding anger or lack of self-composure as it was not about personal differences.

Although the format is rather unspectacular, the extremely fine ceramic vessels by Ellen Schopf (born 1937 in Germany) are striking in their mysterious substance and perfect self-composure. Since Ellen Schopf builds the vessels and bowls from clay slabs there is no mechanical precision, instead minimal deviations and irregularities result in a formal vitality, which is both expressive and sensual.

Her pantomime of self-composure and contentment carries on both at home and at the university where she works as an administrative assistant.

government's self-composure and optimism concerning the National Assembly

This broke the tension and let me of the hook whilst allowing my cousin to regain her self-composure, and as we all got up to leave I gave her a hug for reassurance, although I'm not sure whose.

(37) Admiring biographers stressed the seriousness and self-composure that pious and learned officials brought to their duties, enabling them to rise above their passions.

And in all other scenes he is magnificent, portraying Rubin's quiet dignity, great self-composure and nearly indomitable will.