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• n  the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

• Is one response evidence of composure and self-possession or of being too laid-back and unassertive? Is the other response a sign of urgency and decisiveness or a frantic lack .
• Nothing shows better the interplay between her two defining qualities: her loyalty and her self-possession.
• Janie Crawford, forty-ish, with her "firm buttocks like she had grapefruits in her hip pockets," her "pugnacious breasts," and her imperial self-possession, has survived the most .

• self-control
• possession
• willpower
• will power
• self-command
• self-will

News & Articles

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• The Duke Porn Star’s Life Sounds Pretty Tough
  Since rising to prominence earlier this year, Miriam Weeks (a.k.a. Belle Knox, a.k.a. the Duke Porn Star) has done an impressive job claiming her right to be both a college feminist and a porn star. But even with her formidable self-possession, that's no easy job, as this week's Rolling Stone ... More »
  April 24, 2014 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Michael Bloomberg in New York Times
  On the police football team, Mr. Bloomberg said, Officer Edwards was most respected for his "composure and self-possession."
• Bobby Charlton in Independent
  My fears were proved groundless,said Charlton later. "His self-possession was uncanny and his leadership, as always, brilliant."