How To Use Self-possessed In A Sentence
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She was very self-possessed and very confident.
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She received the ovation self-possessedly enough, but without that hauteur affected by belles of balls -- in books.
With Edged Tools
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Bureaucrats sufficiently self-possessed to speak in that kind of unequivocal language are few and far between.
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The kind of self-possessed girls we've met through doing this come in and think nothing of modelling some Clinique foundation.
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He felt genuine awe at this superhuman man, at once so puissant, so self-possessed, so monomaniac in his demeanour.
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So what on earth was such a woman, a masterful, strident, self-possessed and sharp-edged woman, doing to herself with a man who repeatedly betrayed and humiliated her?
And Again, Love « Tales from the Reading Room
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The children, in contrast, are curiously poised and self-possessed (or perhaps possessed, period).
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His hair is carefully styled and he dresses with a self-possessed style, but there is something eternally boyish to him.
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Moira looked utterly self-possessed; John, increasingly baffled.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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She is maturing into a self-possessed and articulate young woman.
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His hair is carefully styled and he dresses with a self-possessed style, but there is something eternally boyish to him.
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It's easy to imagine why the land-lady's self-possessed daughter wouldn't fall for him and why her lonely, schoolteaching mother might.
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The very young, self-possessed, blond girl in the bright red sleeveless dress in "Glass Door" 2006 sits on the floor with her back to a window.
Religious Experiences
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She's a confident, self-possessed public speaker.
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They are incredibly self-possessed, even in the middle of the adolescent storm.
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Immediately Tudor's monkey-like impishness left him, and he was once more the cool, self-possessed man of the world.
Chapter 26
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She is clearly the most articulate and self-possessed member of her family.
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Critics called him mercenary and his unhurried, self-possessed manner could make him unfathomable.
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So throughout my journey, I definitely identified much more closely with the struggling hero archetype than with the self-possessed goddess archetype.
Elizabeth Gilbert - An interview with author
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She is a confident and self-possessed public speaker.
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But the exercise relieved some of the tension he was feeling and helped him compose the calm, self-possessed image he wanted to portray on camera.
O: A Presidential Novel
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She is clearly the most articulate and self-possessed member of her family.
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They made a point of telling us that both David and Fran had acted "heroically", that they had done all they could, each trying to protect the other, and that they had simply never seen a calmer and more self-possessed individual than Fran in any similar situation, concerning which they had all too much experience, including another case elsewhere that same afternoon.
NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2007 Archives
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What is missing from all of this is the notion of the self-possessed individual who can cope with the vagaries of life and can rightfully demand that the state stops interfering in his or her life.
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She is clearly the most articulate and self-possessed member of her family.
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Seen in profile, the self-possessed Peter gazes contemplatively to her right, while the self-portrayed Brooks stares out with steely eyes hooded by the shadows of an imposing, chicly butch hat.
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Critics called him mercenary and his unhurried, self-possessed manner could make him unfathomable.
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These mostly young men were a self-possessed and supremely self-confident group, all residing at the apex of wealth and literacy.
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Yet Seibei is grave and self-possessed, not a sloven but a man committed to various duties-among them the care of his dotty mother and his two beloved children.
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That is an extremely sophisticated woman looking the portrait painter directly in the eye and the expression on her face is extremely strong and self-possessed.
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She smiled, still perfectly self-possessed, her fingers curled around the glass in her hands.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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cumber, a senior civil servant in his late forties, pleasant, well-educated, self-possessed and competent, welcomes her.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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Herta starts to breathe differently as we kiss; she is always self-possessed; every move of mine is coldly monitored.
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After grabbing glasses of water, I began asking her questions ranging from how she balances work and family to how she became such a self-possessed businesswoman.
Natalia Brzezinski: Designer Shoshanna Talks Bikinis, Bustiers and Women Feeling Beautiful
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Now I think I watch because I like the off-beat performers and the fact that all those people on the screen, however effectual or self-possessed they may be, may actually be doing something to help other human beings.
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They are 'self-people': self-possessed, self-preoccupied, self-loving — and ultimately, self-destructive.
Times, Sunday Times
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He states that the art world "has been hijacked by the very same forces that poisoned the world of finance: herding, greed and short-termism leading to asset inflation, market collusion, lack of substance and too many self-possessed individuals.
Brian D. Cohen: The One-Percenter Art World
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What I do envy, self-possessed control freak that I am, is other people's ability to lose themselves in unfettered delight.
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There is also a great deal in that self-possessed extemporaneousness which a man carries in his pocket on a sheet of paper.
Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O
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The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy calls Gosling's performance a "bid to enter the iconic ranks of tough, self-possessed American screen actors -- Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin.
Ryan Gosling turns tough guy for thriller "Drive"
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She wearied of Rose's talkativeness, regarded the child's brightness as a kind of clowning, and in the way of a kind, unlettered, self-possessed mother, forgave her daughter for being intelligent.
Beard
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That's the awful irony of the dynamic: that the stubborn, idiosyncratic, self-possessed auteurs getting stiffed in their coffins wouldn't want these nitwits to finish their careers for them.
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strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble
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He comes across as self-possessed and confident.
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Here, despite the long and terrible years of the troubles, was a community rising on the economic and cultural tides, self-made and self-possessed.
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She's a confident, self-possessed public speaker.
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Charlie often longed to have the same composure as Cherri, to be as self-possessed as she made herself out to be.
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Their passion had deserted them, and, by the kind of dances as well as by their execution, they recalled rather the calm and self-possessed nauch girls of India than the impassioned dancers of Egypt.
Michael Strogoff
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I had heard hundreds of such little minced, docked, dry phrases, from the pursed-up coral lips of a score of self-possessed, self-sufficing misses and mesdemoiselles.
Villette
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Furthermore, something even in the official's self-possessed and somewhat ostentatious manner in making his specifications strangely reminded him of a bandsman, a perjurous witness in a capital case before a courtmartial ashore of which when a lieutenant, he, Captain Vere, had been a member.
Billy Budd
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While emphasizing her innocence, the newspapers could not help noticing that ‘the little mite’ seemed self-possessed and confident, and much more mature than the older Clara.
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In all he said, now that matters were arranged he was calm, practical, and unloverlike, and for all that she would he had been less self-possessed, her faith in him caused her, upon reflection, even to admire this which she conceived to be restraint.
The Tavern Knight
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I only wish that I could be self-possessed enough to offer it fearlessly, which is something Lucinda has talked to me about.
Mike Ragogna: With Love To Seamus, Lucinda, and Leonard : A Conversation With Matthew Ryan
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Herta starts to breathe differently as we kiss; she is always self-possessed; every move of mine is coldly monitored.
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They are clearly self-possessed, economically focussed and with no inhibitions when it comes to marketing or selling themselves as products or brands.
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Self-obsessed and self-possessed, you are a strong woman with a social conscience, who centers her life around her art.
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Even the society of this self-possessed and self-opinionated young woman was preferable to being abandoned to his own maudlin company.
STAGE FRIGHT
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She is a confident and self-possessed public speaker.
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She appears similarly self-possessed, both complicit and aloof, but always as someone else.
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He is, in fact, a fusion of his former angry young mushroom-munching rebel and an urbane, self-possessed CEO.
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She was a pretty girl with fair curly hair and brown eyes, very self-possessed and a good dancer.
