collectedness
Example Sentences
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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
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
Once and again he betrayed an intention to interrupt; but he was restrained by the collectedness of my manner, and perhaps by a desire to be acquainted with the entire state of my mind.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
After this Bettina went about her preparations for departure with a spirit of calm and collectedness which came from the knowledge of herself, which she had at last fully accepted.
From A Manifest Destiny by Julia Magruder
The preacher's voice and words were as the voices they heard speaking from the bottom of their souls in moments of strange collectedness.
From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore
