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Meanings of sang-froid in anglès

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Great coolness and composure under strain.

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Examples for "cool"
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North-West Province: Fine and cool Free State: Fine and cold to cool.
The South African
2
Free State: Fine and cool but cold in places in the south.
The South African
3
Free State: Morning fog patches in the east, otherwise fine and cool.
The South African
4
That venting will continue for several days as reactors cool, experts said.
Reuters
5
Drain once cool; don't keep in the iced water longer than necessary.
The Guardian
1
I also look up to her for her poise and natural confidence.
Ebony
2
Montgomery had regained enough poise to continue: So we opened the door.
Storm Front
3
You just had to have considerable poise to carry off the effect.
The Naked God
4
The General said he wasn't surprised by the poise of the residents.
The new yorker
5
My sisters performed their ceremonial roles with a great deal more poise.
True compass: a memoir
1
Torre handled the notoriously brutal New York media with aplomb and honesty.
The Yankee Years
2
He produced a great pass to Welbeck and he's finished with aplomb.
Reuters
3
All the aplomb won through years of suffering and experience deserted him.
The Enchanted Canyon
4
Kevin Hart and Alan Arkin deliver some fine one-liners with throwaway aplomb.
The Irish Times
5
What Solskjær has done with aplomb is keep relations with Pogba cordial.
The Guardian
1
A measure of assuredness had returned to their delivery long before the end.
The Guardian
2
But the sense of peace, of blessed assuredness, remained with her.
The Hermit of Far End
3
He must not mind my self-assuredness, because he smiles a little.
Four: The Son
4
He hated that spirit of absolute assuredness so inseparably bound up with the reformers.
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
5
There is an assuredness about him, a directness and conviction.
The Guardian
Usage of sang-froid in anglès
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Marsham in vain endeavored to regain sang-froid and composure under these attacks.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
2
At first, the 42 year-old disabled Irishman's sang-froid even fooled his mother.
The Irish Times
3
Christobal, startled out of his wonted sang-froid, whispered in his turn:
The Captain of the Kansas
4
The coast guardsman, with provoked sang-froid and indifference, began to sing:
We Two: A Novel
5
She had a quiet aplomb, which would be called 'sang-froid' in a man.
Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
6
Then Gervaise, to excuse herself, told a lie with wonderful sang-froid.
L'Assommoir
7
Everyone, even the General, in spite of his sang-froid, constantly looked at his watch.
The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot
8
With all the "sang-froid" in the world, he met my infuriated gaze.
32 Caliber
9
Grave-robbing became an industry, albeit a small one requiring an exceptional degree of sang-froid.
The devil in the white city: murder, magic & madness and the fai...
10
But she could easily see that Magda was shaken out of her customary sang-froid.
The Lamp of Fate
11
She possessed a Marvelous sang-froid, she was witty, bawdy, oblique.
Complete Books of Blood
12
Glancing at the body with the utmost sang-froid, he touched the dress, and indifferently remarked:
The Midnight Queen
13
Ashley had so far recovered his sang-froid as to be able to enjoy a cigar.
The Street Called Straight
14
Herbert's courage was superb, and the reporter's sang-froid astonishing.
The Mysterious Island
15
He possessed to a marked degree the consummate sang-froid that is a natural attribute of aides-de-camp.
Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
16
Powers petrified me by the sang-froid with which he turned out, and pointed out, his statues.
Memories of Hawthorne
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