self-possession

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

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

This self-possession is apparent in one of the six photographs published as part of Detour’s 1995 music issue.

Of the four, he has the most fully-formed act, is the most convincing storyteller, and seems to have the self-possession required for stand-up.

I think that people in general wish that they had more of that self-possession that Wednesday has, and that refusal to let anybody else’s opinions change her or make her feel bad.