Inclusive leaders are able to master composure of their emotions.
Not yet twenty-one, she was mastering the art of public composure: she had helped teach swim clinics; she had mugged underwater for TV cameramen; she had taken up fancy cooking, and had been flown to New York for a "Today" celebrity-chef bit in which she prepared a pork tenderloin and a persimmon risotto on camera while chatting as amiably as a Food Network host.
The two-time Masters champion regained his composure — and more importantly his putting stroke — to edge Jeff Sluman on the second hole of a playoff for his third victory of the year and third major title on the Champions Tour.
Maidza's attitude is refreshing after the sometime crassness of fellow Australian export Iggy Azalea, exemplified by Iggy toasting herself as a "runaway slave master" on D.R.U.G.S. Maidza's composure — her refusal to tolerate "broke behaviour" as U-Huh puts it — invite closer comparison to Lorde.
Ugonna Onyekwe trotted down the court with the composure of a Zen master, almost disappearing within the untucked Penn uniform that billowed around his body like a white robe.
He said he admired tennis players like Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras, and the Brazilian soccer player Dunga, who were masters in their sports but kept their composure.
A bust-length "portrait" of Christ crowned with thorns by the Flemish master Jan Mostaert, for example, lends suffering an urbane composure; a larger-than-life-size Crucifixion from the cathedral at Segovia has the stilted guilelessness of folk sculpture.
In the high-stress vocation of ninth-inning pitching dominated by theatrical personalities, he was the embodiment of Zen calm — a cool Jedi master among the hotheads, and an almost extraplanetary source of composure and grace in the gritty, often chaotic world of Major League Baseball.
Couples, the 1992 champion, birdied the last for a 71 to end alongside joint first-round leader Leishman, 29, who maintained his composure with a one-over 73 in only his second Masters after missing the cut in 2010.
They say that the departure of Carter is already working at the composure of the team who looked so serene when he was the master puppeteer in the destruction of the French in a group game – and that growing doubts about the ability of captain Richie McCaw to last the course could well cause further erosion against Argentina.
I mention that the story reminds me of a Hitchcock film: multiple twists and reveals, the suspenseful IV drip of information Yates doles out to the reader with a master hand, the shadowy yet intense secrets locked inside the characters while they struggle to maintain composure, the ominous atmospheres of Oxford and New York -- so seemingly opposite but equally threatening..
