sangfroid

Example Sentences

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The pilots, accustomed to the high pressure of front-line combat, reacted with sangfroid.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

It's also the source of Frasier’s winning vulnerability, distilled by Grammer into a cocktail of haughty sangfroid, grumpiness and keen loneliness.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2023

Desirée is at the eye of the musical’s romantic hurricane, and Dandridge captures the character’s sangfroid in the midst of chaos.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2023

Alcaraz is imbued with boundless enthusiasm and energy, not to mention skill, speed, stamina and sangfroid.

From Washington Times • Sep. 11, 2022

They had praised her courage and her sangfroid.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie