NOUN
- self-control in a crisis; ability to say or do the right thing in an emergency
How To Use presence of mind In A Sentence
- She comforted her Mother, and faithfully nursed her Father to his last breath; nay she saved him and the house, with great presence of mind, on a sudden inburst of French soldiers. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
- The child showed great presence of mind by grabbing the falling baby.
- When the gunmen came into the bank, she had the presence of mind to press the alarm.
- Flood's clever kick turned the defence and, though Ashton was lucky not to be called offside in hacking it on, it was his presence of mind that set up the next phase for the replacement hooker, Dylan Hartley, who ran on to a pass from good charging distance for the try. Martin Johnson's emerging England taught lesson by ruthless All Blacks
- I'm glad she had the presence of mind to take down the car's registration number.
- He plays with the reader by offering erotic diversion and inversion in lieu of the expected moments of heroic presence of mind, voice and body.
- I had enough presence of mind not to mention my intention.
- His inexhaustible gift of lightning repartee I saw illustrated on another occasion, when he presided at the midnight "gambol" of a Bohemian club, at which it needed the utmost tact and presence of mind to "ride the whirlwind and direct the storm. America To-day, Observations and Reflections
- Fortunately someone had the presence of mind to snap off a picture, preserving the soapy creature for posterity.
- Finally he regained enough presence of mind to unstrap himself. Gideon’s war