sang-froid

While some scenes of verbal and physical violence are troubling enough to make you fear for Houel’s mental health, she rises to the occasion with astonishing sang-froid, quietly haunted then seething in the second act.

He sang with warmth and beauty and acted with the brittle sang-froid of someone trying to maintain sanity in a madhouse.

But the swiftness of the government’s actions belied Mr. Xi’s sang-froid.

The song’s concision is almost as devastating as its sang-froid.

Dressed monochromatically, four steely actors bring sang-froid to the courtroom proceedings.