Examples of composure

• A third report stated that the crowd showed much ' composure and resignation, ' and that tears could be seen in its eyes.

• She immediately recognises its excess and, regaining composure, brings it under the control of her recitative speech.

• Cooling is associated with the loss of anger and regaining normal composure.

• It takes a moment before he begins to regain his composure and cry out against the injustice.

• But it is indicated that this composure is a mere facade.

• But in time he recovered some of his composure and attempted to take on more fully his role as a public intellectual.

• The enraptured, blind to their immediate circumstances, do not keep their customary composure.

• She could not accommodate the "aesthetics of renunciation" and she did not therefore support the stereotypical front in her poetry of verbal composure, shyness, and reticence demanded by reviewers.