self-composure

“Strong but never pushy, she had self-composure and poise beyond her years,” the obituary said.

Faces and Phases is both testimony and archive, the portraits accompanied by personal statements that speak of struggle, but also self-composure and pride.

That is why Gareth Southgate’s mere thoughtful self-composure fascinates.

Shackled and wearing a red jumpsuit, Santiago answered “yes” to questions in court about whether he understood the charges, showing a strained self-composure when he addressed the judge.

He was able to maintain enough self-composure that he even learned to ride a bike — despite every expert telling us it would never happen.