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
Sally gasped, and clenched her mittened hands hard upon the reins as she remembered that Lorton’s by-trail skirted the edge of a very steep bank, but she lost neither her collectedness nor her nerve.
From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold
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
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
