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
When the first moment of dismay and heart-sickening agitation had passed, it seemed to me as if my mind acquired a collectedness and clearness more complete and intense than I had ever experienced before.
From The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
The chief miner, who had recovered his collectedness of mind, approached him.
From Peasant Tales of Russia by Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, V.I.
The judgment, the penetration, the unflinching collectedness, and consummate skill of the surgeon, compelled my warmest admiration.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various
