self-command

Example Sentences

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Thus is the hero of the film, played with charismatic self-command by Denzel Washington, presented as the Spartacus of his people.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 9, 2018

I take the phrase as an instruction, a self-command.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2017

But to me, that absence of self-command suggests more than mere flightiness.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2016

But he had self-command: He knew he grew too nervous and overinvolved in watching Chris’s matches, so he made himself stay home.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2015

“It comes to the same thing. I can have no self-command without a motive. You order me, whether you speak or not. And you can be always with me. You are always with me.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen