Sentence examples for met with equanimity from inspiring English sources

Or the answer can be a combination of the above and a little bit more: Because this is just another day at City Hall, where the silliness of life has as much standing as the grave matters of governance, and is met with equanimity.

Furthermore, as has happened with Medicare since 2010, proposals by the president to rein in "entitlement" spending have not been met with equanimity by the GOP, but instead by attack ads decrying the president's willingness to throw seniors under the proverbial bus.

But it offers a moving portrait of a woman meeting with equanimity an unexpected, often painful series of questions about the choices she made in the past.

He is the athlete.' " Liu is planning to run a reduced outdoor schedule leading up to the Beijing Games, but he handled his only indoor meet with equanimity, winning in 7.46 seconds, four one-hundredths of a second short of his personal best, after a mediocre start.

Enquiries about this are met with polite equanimity.

At their most basic, they offer a user's guide for a sane life, greeted daily with unexpectant joy, its end met with unregretful equanimity.

School, when it began, was met with the same equanimity with which she faced leaving Iran.

Instead the Reds' eight-match winless run has largely been met with wry smiles and the equanimity of a parish priest counting down the days until retirement in the City of Churches' outer suburbs.

Even if you weren't expecting something, meeting it with equanimity is important.

Manning was said to have met the news with equanimity.

On his last ascent, bent double under his ropes at the age of almost 90, he conquered the mountain in four hours.Related items Mount Everest: Writers with altitudeMay 22nd 2003 Mountaineering lore: Rock facesJan 11th 2001Mr Inderbinen met life with the same equanimity as the mountains, his dry wit punctuating his monumental energy.