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• s  in full control of your faculties
  strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble

• Calm, athletic and self-possessed, Agassi, 40, is like his car: he goes from 0 to 60 m.
• Otherwise, Joan Little remained remarkably self-possessed through two days of painful testimony and crossexamination, sticking stoutly to her story that she had been defending .
• At the center of the drama was Obama himself, heroic but self-possessed, outdistancing formidable rivals, always the smartest and most charismatic figure in the room.

• collected
• equanimous
• poised
• self-collected
• self-contained

News & Articles

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• Movie review: ‘The Spectacular Now’
  Sutter Keely, the seemingly self-possessed teenager who prefers to live in “The Spectacular Now,” floats on a cool breeze through high school, outwardly awesome and full of solutions for small-town boredom. So girls fall hard for him, but the sad truth about Sutter that keeps him living in the present and not for the future is what also makes him a “favorite ex-boyfriend,” and provides the tough ...
  Aug. 28, 2013 - The Oklahoman

Quotes

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• Brad Gooch in Baltimore Sun
  O'Connor's screen debut,Gooch writes, "exists in all its fragility in a Pathe film archive. ...... For all of four seconds, O'Connor, a self-possessed little girl, is glimpsed in glaring afternoon light, a wisp of curls peeking from...
• Mike Hargrove in HeraldNet
  Here's a kid who threw in a major college program and closed for that program, so he pitched in tough spots,Hargrove said. "He seems to be a fairly mature, self-possessed guy, especially for a young guy."
• Damon Hill in Times Online
  He's got that sixth sense about racing,Hill said. "Lewis strikes me as so self-possessed and comfortable with himself and confident in his abilities. I think he'll grow. I don't think he'll struggle quite so much."