Sentence examples for utterly composed from inspiring English sources

"She was utterly composed," Ephron's younger sister Delia Ephron wrote in her novel "Hanging Up," describing a character she based on Nora.

She sits across the table in an office in central London, utterly composed, an occasional flicker of rage behind dark eyes.

When he ran, his face was utterly composed, his back straight, his hips forward, his upper body so relaxed that it looked as if he would fall over if you gave him a push.

We had no way to really wring the Rover out off-road, but on a snow-choked, unpaved trail along the Housatonic River in Connecticut, the machine seemed utterly composed, even happy.

All of a sudden, with two major mountain stages remaining, Nibali looks in complete control, having looked utterly composed throughout the time trial, in spite of the heavy rain that drenched the later starters.

For someone who is supposed to fidget endlessly as he waits to bat, he looked so utterly composed once he has arrived at the crease, oblivious to the perils of low-bouncing finger spin or the odd hostile remark from opponents.

Some went the other way, and composed utterly meaningless chatter for their imaginary announcers, like @guywriter's "Remember Amanda Blake?

The sound and the scene were at once familiar and foreign, utterly unique yet composed of everything I've heard before: a classic Curaçaoan send-off.

Tanuma's street portraits are particularly illuminating: two smart young women eyeing with curiosity two women in traditional dress, who seem composed and utterly unselfconscious in their beautiful robes and elaborate hairdos.

Many of the philosophers are young, too, and some seem relaxed and bright-eyed – Delia Graff Fara keeps Pyke's camera at arm's length and seems utterly herself, arms folded, composed.

"Chop Shop," released last winter, is, if anything, even more deeply Iranian in mood and method, in part because its protagonist is a child — something of a hallmark of Kiarostami's mid-'90s work in particular — and also because it seems at once utterly naturalistic and meticulously composed.