self-command
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of self-command
First recorded in 1690–1700
Example Sentences
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Thus is the hero of the film, played with charismatic self-command by Denzel Washington, presented as the Spartacus of his people.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2018
I take the phrase as an instruction, a self-command.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2017
But Affleck, giving the finest performance of an already impressive career opposite the always astonishing Williams, denies us the relief of that catharsis by underplaying the transitions between sorrow and self-command.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2016
But he had self-command: He knew he grew too nervous and overinvolved in watching Chris’s matches, so he made himself stay home.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2015
“It comes to the same thing. I can have no self-command without a motive. You order me, whether you speak or not. And you can be always with me. You are always with me.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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