self-possession

Ira M. Resnick, founder of the Motion Picture Arts Gallery, and Raissa Bretaña, a historian specializing in film fashion, take close-up looks at a few dozen of the dames whose self-possession and hard work helped them develop the “moxie” to succeed in an industry dominated by men and iron-clad contracts that seldom allowed for individuality and artistic growth.

It’s given me this facility, and this self-possession.

Lagerfeld’s self-possession translated to a perpetually composed demeanor.

She is a poignant picture of frayed dignity, her aristocratic self-possession increasingly brittle as the story progresses toward it sad denouement.

But r/AmITheDevil is on another level—a daily parade of such implacably delusional self-possession that it forces you to regularly lower your expectations of fellow humans’ basic decency.