How To Use Self-command In A Sentence
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Invincible when events ran their way, they could not summon the self-command to rally when the sky began to rain.
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His self-command was perfect, and I had never thought I would witness such a thing as this: a prisoner, in the midst of his alien captors, was impeccably performing the highest duty of ambassadorship, which is to inspire respect for the country he represents.
The 9th Directive
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With respect to decision and action, the strategy of objective tolerance is appropriate in areas where I do not aspire to the highest degree of self-command.
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As a man he is high-spirited and energetic, always ready to fight for his Sultan, his country and, especially, his Faith: courteous and affable, rarely failing in temperance of mind and self-respect, self-control and self-command: hospitable to the stranger, attached to his fellow citizens, submissive to superiors and kindly to inferiors — if such classes exist: Eastern despotisms have arrived nearer the idea of equality and fraternity than any republic yet invented.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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She only wished that it were less openly shewn; and once or twice did venture to suggest the propriety of some self-command to Marianne.
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He sought pleasure, self-command, fame, knowledge, and even wisdom.
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In my opinion self-command for Smith is much more complex than simple self-control.
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Self-command is not only itself a great virtue , but from it all the other virtues seem to derive their principle luster.
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Her blank-faced self-command comes to serve as an outright rejection of this climate of verbal violence.
Times, Sunday Times
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These psychological terms seem to be neutral descriptors of inner states or behavioral capacities, but the self-command that they connote is tied directly to concepts of character strength.
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But if such was her mischievous purpose she was completely disappointed; for Roland Graeme, internally piquing himself on his self-command, neither laughed nor was discomposed; and all that the maiden gained by her frolic was a severe rebuke from her companion, taxing her with mal-address and indecorum.
The Abbot
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Education and other forms of enculturation are a way of endowing one of your selves social capital, so that it can prevail more frequently in that intimate contest for self-command.
Education Signaling: Is Entrepreneurship a Solution?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Ambrose finished the narrative with a broken voice indeed, but as one who had more self-command than his brother, perhaps than his uncle, whose exclamations became bitter and angry as he heard of the treatment the boys had experienced from their half-brother, who, as he said, he had always known as a currish mean-spirited churl, but scarce such as this.
The Armourer's Prentices