sangfroid

Cultural  

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.”

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Example Sentences

As for Fry, when her Etheline loses her sangfroid, I was ready to bolt.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. Lee is equally off-base, delivering her lines with a mix of sangfroid and sarcasm as if C-suite officers are used to getting chased around by super-killers from another domain.

From The Wall Street Journal

If you are, or have in your life, a Johnny Carson fan, you know what I’m talking about: the formidable list of attributes that set him apart — 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.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s 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 “Godzilla vs. King Kong” a run for its money.

From Los Angeles Times

It's also the source of Frasier’s winning vulnerability, distilled by Grammer into a cocktail of haughty sangfroid, grumpiness and keen loneliness.

From Salon