Sentence examples for relative composure from inspiring English sources

Contrasting noticeably with the relative composure and self-containment of the painted portraits, the etched ones are a tumult of scowls and unruly hair.

Despite the odd glitch Henman steered his way through the opening two sets with relative composure, although his inability to get his first serve working was a warning of the struggle ahead.

Any hopes of relative calm before kick-off disappeared in the pre-match non-handshake - but Liverpool at least started with a measure of composure and Glen Johnson was just off target with a low, curling effort after four minutes.

The winner was a relative unknown who kept his composure when better-known and more celebrated competitors bent under the heavy weight of Open pressure.

Despite her relative inexperience, Watson, who is five years younger and seven inches shorter than Sharapova, retained her composure in building a 5-2 first-set lead.

Whenever friends or relatives gave him infants to carry, "I would take hold of the baby with all the relaxed composure of the minister for Northern Ireland being handed a mystery parcel during a walkabout of West Belfast," he says.

Standing at the display counter, weighing up the relative merits of a Biedermeiertorte or an Esterházytorte before the expectant gaze of the cashier, it's easy to lose composure and rush into an impulse order.

Blimey, such composure.

I regain my composure.

His composure astonished me.

"His composure never broke.