self-possessed Betydning & definition

Eksempler på self-possessed

• They, too, nurtured the dream of an expansive civil society built not upon savage barter but upon transactions among self-possessed, moneyed persons.

• The artist stresses thereby the self-possessed, cold professionalism of the assailant.

• The child has been quite self-possessed.

• He was fond of reading, intelligent, and self-possessed.

• He was a quiet, self-possessed boy and grew into a strong and noble young man.

• Bane is a devious child -- charming, but ambitious, and totally self-possessed.

• In both films, she played a self-possessed, elderly married woman.

• On rising from the piano, he was always the same quiet, respectable, self-possessed, middle-aged gentleman that he was at the dinner table of his hotel.