Sentence examples for Perfect composure from inspiring English sources

(Toward the bulkhead I watch one woman in a skirt manage to hurdle the aisle bed several times in the night with perfect composure).

Condemned by a panel of 501 Athenian citizens to kill himself with hemlock, Socrates carried out the sentence with perfect composure and in full rational awareness — or so the myth has it.

But for all its complexity, what may be most confounding about Ms. Pondick's new work (10 pieces are currently on view at the Sonnabend Gallery in Chelsea) is its perfect composure.

Walt Whitman saw him then, outside the Astor House, on Broadway, and noted "his perfect composure and coolness his unusual and uncouth height, his dress of complete black, stovepipe hat push'd back on the head".

"Accustomed as the modern reader may be to scanning, with perfect composure, those clumps of naughty monosyllables that make up the ordinary 'powerful' novel of sexual deviation, he is apt to find himself wholly disconcerted by Vladimir Nabokov's restrained and witty chronicle of the lust of a man for a child".

Accustomed as the modern reader may be to scanning, with perfect composure, those clumps of naughty monosyllables that make up the ordinary "powerful" novel of sexual deviation, he is apt to find himself wholly disconcerted by Mr. Nabokov's restrained and witty chronicle of the lust of a man for a child.

In its always near-perfect composure, Mr. Lee's art teeters perilously between art and décor.

His art is impeccably elegant, but in its always near-perfect composure, it teeters between art and décor.

In games, Meller projects pure composure: he is serene, unflappable — what Sherman calls "the perfect temperament". Win or lose, he loves nothing more than to analyze a game afterward with his opponent.

My was heart in my throat, my face a perfect mask of composure, as I started to read.

These works are characterized by a high degree of psychological insight into the subjects, and they describe the standards of taste for this period—a preference for the portly, elegantly garbed female caught frozen at a perfect moment of composure, totally involved in the pursuit of idle pleasure.