Sentence examples for self-possessed manner from inspiring English sources

Her self-possessed manner suggests she's not easily intimidated, but she was robbed three times.

Here was a pleasant, well-groomed woman in her seventies, with nothing to say beyond the usual pleasantries, spoken in a somewhat halting but self-possessed manner.

As she sang, accompanying herself at the piano for half the set, her stage manner was self-possessed.

She was described as "a little meek-looking Quakerish body, with the sweetest, modest manners and yet as unshrinking and self-possessed as a loaded canon".

She is also well mannered, disciplined, shrewd, and self-possessed.

Schocken is sixty-six, slender, and aristocratic in a German-Jewish way, both diffident and self-possessed.

In the middle of the hubbub, he was self-possessed -- not aloof but not hail-fellow-well-met in the manner of some politicians.

Srini is a quiet, self-possessed man of forty-six with a depth of expression in his dark-brown eyes and a gently precise manner.

She told me that she used the reinvented stage manner — the alert, jutting way she held her head, the dancing, the guttural bass lines, and the increasingly self-possessed singing — to explore aggression and sexuality from behind the relative safety of the footlights.

She is self-possessed.

Self-contained and self-possessed.