sangfroid

1. Composure in the face of difficulty or danger: “We would all be dead today if our bus driver hadn't kept his sangfroid when the bus began to skid on the ice.” From French, meaning “cold blood.”

Example Sentences

There are those, however, who don't equate sangfroid and good manners with maturity.

From The Daily Beast

With sangfroid, Mom snuffed out her cigarette with the toe of her high heel.

From The Daily Beast

So given his sangfroid ‎it is likely that Mr. Costas has old-fashioned pinkeye.

From The Daily Beast

That fact alone permits Christie loyalists to greet the new negativity with a healthy degree of sangfroid.

From The Daily Beast

French authorities on Thursday saluted the cyclist-witness's sangfroid under the circumstances.

From The Daily Beast

It was his sangfroid which was responsible for the devotion with which the soldiers rushed against the enemy.

From Project Gutenberg

Then Kemeny stood up with imperturbable sangfroid and buckled on his sword, but refused to wear armour.

From Project Gutenberg

He understood that he was unceremoniously dismissed, but he was not the kind of man to easily lose his sangfroid.

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Where was the aristocratic sangfroid which should have made him proof even against so much perturbing news?

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Accordingly his first act was with characteristic sangfroid to order these commodities quietly.

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