0 the characteristic of being calm and in control of your emotions at all times: --
1 the quality of being calm and in control of your emotions: --
She shows remarkable self-possession for a child.
In this work the flat setting allows the viewer to settle on the woman's face and quiet self-possession.
Like the female spirit in this print, they generally have longer faces with strong jaws giving an impression of greater self-possession, if not outright aggressiveness.
He is capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with other persons.
The king, greatly impressed with the youth's tact and self-possession, chose to give him a series of tests both gigantic and impossible for ordinary mortals.
Characteristic traits are his hackney-like action, fearless animation, complete self-possession, and his spirited presence.
She modeled her own designs and rarely let her dramatic, elegant air of self-possession falter.
His conscientiousness, single-mindedness, and unfailing self-possession atoned to some extent for his lack of military genius.
There remains the danger that workers will lose their self-possession.