He remained calm and unflustered.
Another figure who looks unflustered is Boris Berezovsky, perhaps Russia's biggest tycoon and best-known manipulator, who has been ostentatiously close to Mr Chernomyrdin this week.
Unflustered, he played for time; and when Israel launched its attack on Egypt, the peacekeepers were caught in the middle.
She seems unflustered by the tempests raging around her.
A few days later, in between interviews with police investigating a possible hate crime, Mr McConnell insisted that his comments referred only to "those who use religion as justification for violence".Mr al-Wazzan received all these comments with unflustered grace.
It feels as a small French car should: fluent and bump-flattening over undulations, with a relaxed, unflustered motion, yet keen to respond to accurate, crisp steering and gripping tenaciously in corners.
In what was ultimately an interview about trust and integrity, the aftermath of Boris Johnson's embarrassing televised grilling at the weekend only led to more questions about the sincerity of the London Mayor's words, as his own father signalled that his attempts to appear unflustered and amused by his experience may not be entirely genuine.
It was just after seven in the morning, and I had arrived far too early at their Edwardian terraced home for our scheduled interview, but an unflustered Mr Cameron let me in and made coffee.
Mitchell, with his unerring accuracy, was making the Colombian look crude, and when Prescott did land, as with an overhand right towards the end of the third, Mitchell remained unflustered.
He is the eternal rebel, his own man, seemingly unflustered by the opinions of others.
The Yamaha rider took an unflustered maiden WSBK win in race one before benefiting from a penalty handed to the long-time leader Max Biaggi in race two.
