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
She began by repeating her eternal enmity to the marriage in a manner impressive to the greatest degree, and still more decisive in its form by the cool collectedness of her manner.
From Marriage by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
He felt more at ease with it in his hand and he suspected that he would need all his collectedness.
From Prescott of Saskatchewan by W. Herbert Dunton
O'Connor, thanking him for his punctuality, requested him to come into his study for a moment, when, with a melancholy collectedness, he proceeded to make arrangements for our witnessing his will.
From The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
