In those early days, composure was something he threatened to lose as he ruminated on the challenges to be faced. |
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She recovers her composure as Beatrice enters the room, smiling kindly at her. |
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The French ambassador wrote that Rogers died with such composure that it might have been a wedding. |
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Do Leigh have the temperament to hack it on the big occasion without losing their composure, and consequently, the match? |
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I had to sit down and stare at the beach towel display in the window of House of Fraser for ten minutes until my composure was restored. |
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Two penalties saw them stretch their lead to 16-10 as Cougars lost their composure and handed them points on a plate. |
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Others stare blankly into the distance with the composure of condemned men contemplating their last plate of pommes frites and steak au poivre. |
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This seemed to catch their captor by surprise, but he quickly regained his composure. |
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The composure we saw against Italy at Hampden and against Norway in Oslo had gone, blown away by a visiting team chasing a cause. |
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Keeper Damian Ward played admirably between the sticks and was a model of coolness and composure throughout. |
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Fulner sat in his chair for a few moments, scared stiff, before regaining his composure and speaking. |
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A fireside chat in the wee hours of the morning attains a heavenly composure, the dramatic ethereal lighting making this their crucial scene. |
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Yet he was stretching a point, since Aberdeen showed more composure in the game's key moments. |
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I regained some composure and raised my camera and strobe to see where it had gone. |
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We do not know who they are, but their identity is perhaps less important than their composure and stylistic attributes. |
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The Dutchman displayed immense composure to chest the ball down, turn and make rapid incursions towards the visitors' penalty area. |
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Alex nearly lost her composure as she saw Meredith all wrapped in her housecoat. |
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Mary, smiling, reads a prayer-book, akin to the one she appears in, with patrician composure. |
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But when composure gave way to a series of ugly and ill-tempered clashes, there was only going to be one winner. |
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Our visitor appeared startled at this information but on recovering his composure took his coffee cup and sat down at the table. |
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He was silent for a short while, trying to regain his composure and collect himself. |
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Macha is 145 pounds of phlegmatic composure, a St. Bernard who can't help but look dignified and profound, even when she is waiting for a treat. |
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Finally she calmed down and, regaining composure, proceeded with the wedding as if the incident had never happened. |
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That all came down to us when we lost composure and control for a few minutes of the game. |
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After regaining some of his composure, the artist went to the local pub to meet his wife as arranged. |
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I try to withhold all curiosities and concentrate on maintaining my composure. |
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The calm sea presented a facade of composure which was soon to be broken by the French. |
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The other side is trying to make you lose your composure and you will play right into their hands if you do. |
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Before I could regain my composure, I felt a tug from behind, as if someone was grabbing me by my collar. |
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It was cool enough to take my breath away for a second and it took a few moments to regain my composure and concentrate. |
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He paid tribute to the staff at the airport for their composure in trying circumstances. |
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Williams was stunned but managed to regain his composure to take the next frame. |
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It took me about a few seconds to regain composure and get up from whatever I had fallen on. |
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I sent a message to Allison, hoping for a voice of reason to help regain my composure. |
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She has a startling assurance and composure and the performance is most notable. |
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Donny tried to regain composure as tears of hysteria rolled down his cheeks. |
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As the stadium took a collective deep breath, the home side regained their composure. |
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She looked as if she might start sobbing again, but blew her nose and regained her composure. |
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We let the ball bounce from kick off and we didn't regain our composure until after the game was lost. |
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Two days later, feeling feverish, she went to them and he could tell she was struggling to maintain her composure. |
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But with little ambition to go wide and a lack of composure when they tried to, they were containable. |
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The abbey's inwardness and composure is fascinating, amidst such a roar of nature. |
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Given greater composure, they could have scored more tries and thus gained a bonus point. |
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And he displayed great composure and poise in a loud environment in reality our first road game of this year. |
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Lucinda quickly regained her composure, a dark blush flushing her pale cheeks, as she reopened the book, hurriedly skimming the past page. |
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I gathered my composure as fast as I could, put the cross hairs on them and engaged them. |
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She sits heavily down and, after a moment of composure, her face crumples and she begins to sob. |
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It was fun because he kept fumbling over his words and finally, when he gathered his composure, invited me to a party and gave me a flyer. |
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What's more, composure is dynamic throughout a season, so that players who start to slump will have a tough time getting out of their funk. |
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In the rain, they could not restore their composure and the match drifted to a draw. |
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We can't afford to give penalties away and we need to make sure we keep our composure during the game like we have done before. |
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I breathe a secret sigh of relief and recover my composure in the back seat, and release my grip on the grab handle. |
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I paused outside the carved double doors, gathering my dignity and composure around me like a shield. |
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Equally, he has the stamina, guile and composure both to make chances and work himself into positions to take them. |
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Fortunately, Scott had enough composure to be able to excuse himself politely. |
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Alyssa was trying to recover her composure while putting on her sock and shoe. |
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The Aberdonian somehow retained his composure to par the next nine holes before adding two birdies and a bogey. |
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Only in a bruising period of the second half, when the game turned scrappy, did Hibs lose their composure and control. |
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We'll greet them with a clear soul and with a composure that affirms the dignity of life and unites suffering and knowledge. |
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Initially speechless, the Colonel quickly regained his composure and responded in a most emphatic affirmative. |
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Ultimately though, Edwards had just too much speed and he kept his composure to win the day and the season. |
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Quickly regaining his composure he whipped out a cigarette and a bottle of beer. |
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The leader of the monks was taken aback, but quickly regained his composure. |
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Before she could regather her composure, he had rendered her ineffective as he held her firmly. |
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But the top-seeded Moya regathered his composure to take his third title of the year after success in Buenos Aires and Barcelona. |
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But seconds later the plucky rider had regained her composure and remounted her animal. |
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The flipside of his team's youthful enthusiasm is the lack of composure that sometimes accompanies it. |
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He brings us authority, composure and work rate and a bossing of midfield players we have lacked all of this zany season. |
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The latter event came closest to threatening the singer's customary composure. |
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His composure and distribution are complemented by the Corsican, a natural left-footed player. |
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In a first game that lasted nearly 30 minutes, she maintained her composure through a series of lets, strokes, and no lets. |
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There is a tendency towards slouching rather than an upright composure and overall there may be a sense of lethargy or a lack of vitality. |
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There's no noticeable roll despite the lack of anti-roll bars and mid-corner bumps don't unsettle its composure. |
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The chassis displays impressive levels of composure and minimal roll through the turns. |
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Normally nothing ruffled his composure, and yet there he was, blushing like a callow youth at the sight of her ankle. |
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His composure shifted from weightless glee, to a rougher, maestoso tone of scorn. |
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They fell still, if only for a moment, in deference, but could not maintain their composure long. |
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His performance thereafter, though, suggested that his composure had been affected. |
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Sean's lips pursed and his hands tightened as he struggled to contain his composure. |
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We work on possession drills every day in training and have got to find the composure to see games out and kill teams off. |
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At 25, he already has the composure and self-assurance to match his 6ft 6in frame. |
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Glad that she made a good excuse, she walked off towards the ladies bathroom to regain her composure. |
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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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It will be an occasion when his composure, together with that of his captain, comes into its own. |
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The composure with which he drained the winning putt in the Walker Cup five years ago was the mark of a man who responds well to pressure. |
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Knowing that in purely physical terms we can mix it with the best has given us a great amount of confidence and composure. |
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He had the feeling that years of composure and blamelessness were thrown out. |
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Hope has just spent the morning skateboarding, so his composure is relaxed. |
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His rage was unfocused and undirected, and as such he was forcing it to stay inside, if nothing else, to save his composure. |
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Her typical composure in dealing with stressful situations such as this was slowly slipping away from her as her terror and fright increased. |
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He looked up at me, incredulous, but it subsided into introspectful placidity, his neck finally unhitching its strained composure. |
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Normally the epitome of composure, the midfielder appeared to stub his toe in the act of shooting and he was again untroubled. |
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The phone clicked back into place as Jackie crumpled onto the floor, her composure finally breaking. |
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They play with tremendous heart, have nerves of steel and show the composure of teams of more maturity. |
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He will no doubt gain composure with more experience but he allowed him to smother his shot. |
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Eventually, after half an hour rolling around on the floor in fits of laughter, I managed to regain my composure. |
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It didn't help his composure any that her face and body were a mass of bruises, and her left arm was in a sling more for pain relief than support. |
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His voice cracks with emotion as he tries to retain his cool composure. |
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I almost doubled up in pain, but tried to keep some composure. |
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The anger was leaving him, draining away and all the alcohol he had downed at the club was coming back to him, a red mist threatening to totally overthrow his composure. |
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In the final minutes York might have taken the lead, but their line-out composure deserted them and, without possession, they conceded penalties which drove them back. |
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That fourth set loss and the consequential collapse of momentum would have destroyed the balance and composure of almost any athlete in any sport. |
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I'm having problems maintaining my outwardly normal composure as it is. |
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I'd like to think I've answered those critics who had lambasted me for my disciplinary problems and, under some provocation at times this summer, I've held my composure. |
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Adding to his already battered pride, he tottered back into the bedroom on unsteady matchstick legs, attempting to regain maybe a little of his lost composure. |
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Yet when Henman almost fainted with fright as he began his second-round match, the pundits fell over themselves to point out how quickly he regained his composure. |
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They seem mildly curious about my disgraceful lack of composure. |
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Receding hairlines and a casual composure on stage showed that this was a band with an obvious level of maturity demonstrated by their musicianship and vocal finesse. |
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Regaining his composure, he said his farewell and walked out of the door. |
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Even under pressure when the Portuguese were desperately trying to get back into the game he showed a lot of composure and didn't just hoof the ball forward. |
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The team rang panic stations, and yet also retained composure. |
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You can see these patterns develop in Scotland's play and, when these pre-planned drills creep in, the players appear to lose their concentration and composure. |
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Vanilla tried to regain her composure, which was slowly slipping away. |
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Coming from a government official known for her composure, quick wit and ability to be articulate under heat, the weight of these words should not be ignored. |
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The control and composure he showed for the first goal was world class. |
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Her vocals are alternately sassy, playful and scolding, though they always retain a composure that makes them more detached than outrightly emotional. |
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He popped up in the right place at the right time, had the skill and composure to pull the ball out of the air with the tip of his toe and shoot in one smooth movement. |
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I slouch back in my office chair, breathe deeply, and stare up at the ceiling trying to regain my composure. |
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Their preparation and composure was further tested when pelorus repeats, gyros, GPS and even their sight were removed from their repertoire of navigational aids. |
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Part of the delight of watching her pivot gracefully from steely composure to histrionic distress comes from the feeling of witnessing two bravura performances at once. |
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He did recover his composure and went on an hour-long walkabout with the Leicester Square crowds, signing autographs and chatting on mobile phones in customary fashion. |
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She always had composure, but now she carried a quiet but firm dignity. |
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William looked down in horror as he tried to keep composure, but the very fear of what his acid remarks could do to this man's mood made him gulp and shift once in his feet. |
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I drew a few ragged breaths and fought to regain my composure. |
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He recalled being angry and trying to keep his composure as he strode past Cosby into the front hall. |
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Through it all, though, Holder has maintained his composure and remained focused on his legal and constitutional responsibilities. |
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At several points during his narrative, he has to stop to regain his composure. |
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It advocates walking the extra mile, which, far from being capitulation or forfeiture of rights, is unflinching self-assertion and composure amidst adversity or extortion. |
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Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance. |
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He began to lose his composure, and made mistakes, his cards got mixed up, and his scoring was wild. |
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Throughout her shows, she has had to stop singing to regain her composure. |
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Nehru who usually spoke calmly, peacefully and with international etiquette, spoke losing his composure, 'You are a total communalist. |
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Their age may vary from childhood to grandparenthood, but they all maintain composure whatever happens. |
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Perry kept his composure to level matters and then a break of 73 made it level pegging. |
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Out came the safety car but Rosberg retained his composure to hold off the challenge from Hamilton to claim his fourth win of the season. |
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I regained my composure and stepped fully inside the crowded hallway. |
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Jack is considered a loose cannon due to his volatile personality and his track record of being unable to maintain his composure. |
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Nevertheless, he maintained his composure and insisted that he had acted alone. |
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Faldo's remarkable composure under pressure and intimidating presence were hallmarks of his game. |
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Maidana was saved by the bell but somehow regained composure and continued to battle on. |
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The Queen's composure and skill in controlling her mount were widely praised. |
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Williams regained his composure under intense pressure to win the last two frames and lift the trophy for the second time. |
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Gibbon describes Augustus' reaction to the defeat as one of the few times the normally stoic ruler lost his composure. |
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Estonia were struggling to get to grips with the game while Ireland were showing a composure and guile that demonstrated their experience in play-off ties. |
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Her mother, Shireen Cader, an invigilator at RCSI Bahrain, explained how Afra had always shown remarkable composure and confidence gained through her love of drama and sport. |
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His face was rather long and cheerful, he had fine eyes, and in his appearance and manner could express geniality or, when necessary, a serious composure. |
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Johnson hesitated with his back to goal and was dispossessed by Mulumbu, who instantly played Odemwingie through on goal. The Nigerian kept his composure to wrong-foot Reina. |
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His composure was broken at some point during the following day. |
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Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas. |
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