No one can say how long the calm will endure.
The announcement of the stress-test results for 91 European banks, due on July 23rd, will show whether the calm can endure or whether it preceded a storm.
A 21-year-old McIlroy failed to convert a four-shot lead in 2011, suggesting Spieth at the same age will need every ounce of his preternatural calm to endure today.
With the reflexes to gobble up Sampras's 125-mile-an-hour serves, with the calm to endure the pressure of his first Grand Slam final, with the wrist snap of a lion tamer on his passing shots, Safin played a nearly flawless match against one of the greatest players ever.
But who's to say that the calm would have endured past that first night, much less through weeks, as Ms. Carroll endured?
China's financial markets have endured an uneasy calm since late August when stocks collapsed 40 per cent but weak economic data has stoked fears more turmoil is in store.
Of course he stayed calm after his side had endured two Test defeats outside of London, which would have undermined the morale of lesser sides – and captains.
In particular, Mr. Schwartz said that Mr. Staggs had helped calm Wall Street when Disney endured an unsuccessful 2004 hostile takeover attempt by Comcast and a simultaneous shareholder effort to oust Mr. Eisner, which was ultimately successful.
Regarding the prayer breakfast, which began in 1953, the president said that "it says something about us as a nation, as a people, this great prayerful tradition has endured … In calm and in crisis we come together not as Democrats and Republicans but as brothers and sisters and as children of God".
With a seething intensity leavened by calm understatement, his character has endured fierce battles with adversaries, human and not, over the course of the show's three seasons.
