collectedness
Example Sentences
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I give in to my gee-whiz moment and ask if he minds a picture with me and the fam – so much for my veneer of cool collectedness.
From US News • Feb. 11, 2015
I’ve gotten it into my head that if I resist the urge to look through it, it will somehow project a veneer of calm or cool collectedness, the path I’m carving in the carpet notwithstanding.
From US News • Feb. 11, 2015
And yet—were the alarm again to be given, no man in that camp would be more readily on the spot, the very personification of cool and calm collectedness.
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram
Norwood listened with the stern collectedness of one who had nerved himself for a great effort.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
The inhuman collectedness of mind with which, in the midst of a tremendous public calamity, he could scheme for his own private well-being is the key to his whole character.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus
