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sangfroid
- Composure in the face of difficulty or danger: 鈥淲e would all be dead today if our bus driver hadn't kept his sangfroid when the bus began to skid on the ice.鈥 From French, meaning 鈥渃old blood.鈥
Example Sentences
If you are, or have in your life, a Johnny Carson fan, you know what I鈥檓 talking about: the formidable list of attributes that set him apart 鈥 the suits, the laid-back stance, the endlessly bobbing pencil, the lethal one-liners and raised eye-brow sangfroid that could dissolve into helpless laughter.
It鈥檚 a job that Ullett has performed without incident in the past, but his sangfroid was tested by a battle of colossal egos that could give 鈥淕odzilla vs. King Kong鈥 a run for its money.
It's also the source of Frasier鈥檚 winning vulnerability, distilled by Grammer into a cocktail of haughty sangfroid, grumpiness and keen loneliness.
Still, there is a special level of sangfroid required to sit down with famous people in front of a camera and an audience and just 鈥 talk.
Desir茅e is at the eye of the musical鈥檚 romantic hurricane, and Dandridge captures the character鈥檚 sangfroid in the midst of chaos.
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