How To Use Self-possession In A Sentence
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Under the gloomy strip lighting of a police interrogation cell he might be stripped of his self-possession, and confess.
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When it is considered into what consternation the bystanders must have been thrown, rendering them, by the palsy of fear, incapable of assisting Lazarus in his struggles to free himself from the folds in which he was wrapped, the sublime self-possession of Jesus appears.
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He looked surprised but soon recovered his self-possession.
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Claire is responding to Edie's undeniable self-possession and confidence, not the actual content of her work.
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It is a confident gesture worthy of a fashion shoot; in another life, with her bee-stung lips and her self-possession, Joséphine might have been a model.
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She glanced at the fallen log, and then turned and walked with self-possession along the flagstone path that led to the chalet.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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I remember an incident of his whist-life sufficiently amusing in its way, though, in relation, the reader loses what to myself is certainly the whole pungency of the story: I mean the character and nature of the person who imparted the anecdote to me, and who is about the most perfect specimen of that self-possession, which we call coolness, the age we live in can boast of.
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
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Along the way she picked up a confidence and self-possession that will serve her well.
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Temperament is in the eye of the voter. Is one response evidence of composure and self-possession — or of being too laid-back and unassertive?
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Despite her self-possession, Ali, 35, does not always radiate calm sauciness.
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Her calm self-possession generally wrong-footed even the most concerned messenger.
JUST BETWEEN US
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Accustomed to yelling at recalcitrant dogs and pushy hunt followers, Ferry exudes authority and self-possession.
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The merchant forgets his dignity, and joins them; the "huer," so calm and collected hitherto, loses his self-possession and waves his cap triumphantly; even you and I, reader, uninitiated spectators though we are, catch the infection, and cheer away with the rest, as if our bread depended on the event of the next few minutes.
Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot
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She was one of those whom, encountered in the streets or in society, one might guess to be married, -- probably a young bride; for thus seen there was about her an air of dignity and of self-possession which suits well with the ideal of chaste youthful matronage; and in the expression of the face there was a pensive thoughtfulness beyond her years.
The Parisians — Complete
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Portman's character is the emotional center of the film, and she does an admirable job with a role that allows her to swing from kittenish teasing to calm self-possession to touching vulnerability.
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The forfeiture of self-possession is indeed a condition for the narrator's rediscovery of Christian caritas, though the surrender is no less ‘terrible’ than Eliot has previously imagined it.
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He might have been a Cumberland dalesman, such were his dignity, and self-possession, and English soberness of manner.
The White Rose Road
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As Modeste, dazzled by the magnificence of the great lords, entered and beheld this lesser Versailles, she suddenly remembered her approaching interview with the celebrated duchesses, and began to fear that she might seem awkward, or provincial, or parvenue; in fact, she lost her self-possession, and heartily repented having wished for a hunt.
Modeste Mignon
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In fact, looking tired but slim and healthy, he appears unusually blessed with self-possession and assurance.
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Their self-possession allowed them to conserve the air and wait for the rescue operation.
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In part 2, the narrator concludes that this surrender produces merely the illusion of self-control and self-possession.
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Shaking himself, his self-possession recovered and his sweat dried, he lifted his knees and rolled into a crouch behind one of the merlons, peering through the crenel on its left.
Nightside The Long Sun
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She recalled his hauteur and studious coldness towards herself, his air of deep understanding and mastery, his magic look of wizardly youth, his eloquence, his immense self-possession, his mysterious connection with Cleopatra's indisposition and recovery.
Too Old for Dolls A Novel
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The prophetess of Delphi, and the priestess of Dodona, many are the benefits which in their phrensies (moments of inspiration) they have bestowed upon Greece; but in their hours of self-possession, few or none.
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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By premising its concept of "world" (or an all-encompassing framework by some other name) on an originary act of reflexive self-possession, Cartesian epistemology and the political philosophy of classical liberalism revolve a model of agency constituted ex negativo — that is, defined by the alleged absence of any inner pre-determination.
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction
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Yet was there a stranger guest among us who did all this and more with unblenching brow, unruffled self-possession, unequalled courtesy, who, if discovered, would have been arrested and consigned to a lock-up, only to be exchanged for the gloom and the manacles of the condemned cell.
Robbery Under Arms
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When reading, hearing or viewing art, we are drawn to bravura performances, I think, by an essentially primitive approval of self-possession wherever it may be found.
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But leaders, having achieved self-possession, have long since recovered their creative powers, too, and have continued to grow.
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The dark-eyed, black-haired, modestly-attired, and even sober-looking girl, who put out her hand with a very simple movement, and spoke, with considerable self-possession truly, but certainly not with an impudent air, bore but scant resemblance to the "brazen hussey" who had haunted
The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
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His perfect self-possession and coolness, the nil-admirari and nil-agitari atmosphere which surrounded him, excited my admiration at first, till I discovered that it arose, not from the composure of a mind too deep-rooted to be swayed by external circumstances, but rather from a peculiar hardness and unimpressibility of temperament that kept him on the same level all the time.
Found and Lost
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She most likely has experience in law enforcement or the military, though she may simply be a self-defense advocate or a dedicated hobbyist with uncommon self-possession .
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He exudes a sense of self-possession and hauteur that leads critics in the media and among his party to label him arrogant.
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A tireless worker for the local charities, she was known for her calm self-possession and for her organisational skills.
JUST BETWEEN US
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They would become "pert," as pages were supposed to be, and diffident as esquires, but as knights they would come back of themselves to the perfect ways of their childhood with a grace that became well the strength and self-possession of their knighthood.
The Education of Catholic Girls
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A distance, an aura of self-possession that made her hard to get near.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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Then Noel remembered himself, and in perfect recollectedness and self-possession he took her hands and kissed them, first one and then the other.
A Beautiful Alien
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Accustomed to yelling at recalcitrant dogs and pushy hunt followers, Ferry exudes authority and self-possession.
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He looked surprised but soon recovered his self-possession.
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an imperturbable self-possession
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His perfect self-possession and coolness, the _nil-admirari_ and _nil-agitari_ atmosphere which surrounded him, excited my admiration at first, till I discovered that it arose, not from the composure of a mind too deep-rooted to be swayed by external circumstances, but rather from a peculiar hardness and unimpressibility of temperament that kept him on the same level all the time.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
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In fact, looking tired but slim and healthy, he appears unusually blessed with self-possession and assurance.