aplomb

Example Sentences

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If you can condition yourself to embrace that fact, you can profit from calamity and good fortune with equal aplomb.

From Barron's

The city that Tom Bradley has led with impassive aplomb for 17 years is frayed at the edges, with aging sewers and inadequate housing stock.

From Los Angeles Times

Bush handled the maneuver with aplomb and succeeded Ronald Reagan.

From Los Angeles Times

The courtly gentleman guided women around the floor to big band standards with all the aplomb of teenage boys waltzing at a cotillion dance they’ve been forced to attend by their parents.

From Salon

“The unflappable Pointer sails above the general mayhem with a ladylike aplomb that makes her subsequent emotional epiphany all the more moving,” The Times wrote about Pointer’s performance in that show.

From Los Angeles Times