And as Arsenal struggled to recover some semblance of composure, it required a vital goal-line clearance from Kieran Gibbs to divert away another header from Bruce.
It requires concentration, patience, composure and dedication; it cannot be hurried and there is little room for error.
It required only a sliced clearance from the goalkeeper, José Sá, one that gave Salah his first opening of the game, for home players to begin castigating each other and lose their composure.
Although it was the stadium's overflowing energy that attracted him, powerful horses racing across red earth, it's the composure required in racing that he captures here.
It will require a massive amount of intensity and composure and accurate skill execution.
Riding these vehicles required a certain composure.
Or the one made collectively by the Pacers, who responded to Coach Frank Vogel's pregame call for the "different sort of poise and composure required at home" by declaring — with a giant defensive whiff — that they are not yet mentally tough enough to kick Miami while it's down.
Each strike showed composure when required.
Immense character and composure are required to win on horrible, wet days like this and England showed plenty of both to record their first tournament victory in Dublin since 2003.
There will inevitably be nights like this over the course of a campaign, occasions when a glut of chances are created only for the forwards' radar to be skew-whiff when composure is required.
IN the first of two acclaimed performances by Kirsten Dunst at the 64th Cannes Film Festival in May, a rapt audience watched as a dozen emotions — amusement, stoicism, distress, weariness, embarrassment and rue among them — played across her features in a scene in which she was required to maintain her composure at every moment and express an extraordinary range of feeling with almost no dialogue.
