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
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 Charles James Lever
It will be a nervous hour for our pew, though we hear that he acquits himself with as much ease and collectedness, as if he had been used to it all his life.
From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by William Austen-Leigh
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
