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
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
It was only when seated at the fire-side, that Owen regained sufficient collectedness to detail the particulars he had learned in the village.
From St. Patrick's Eve by Lever, Charles James
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 Lever, Charles James
