self-composed
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-composed
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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Bill Cosby, for example, is the main villain of the accountability chapter, and one of that chapter’s heroes is a stunningly self-composed young woman who shrugs off sexist verbal abuse on the subway.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2020
Until these materials were made available to researchers, the portrait that Roosevelt had cultivated during his life, one largely accepted by his biographers, was of a man gilded with optimism, unflappable, self-composed, self-confident.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2017
Guan Kaiyuan, a 22-year-old law student at the China Institute of Industrial Relations in Beijing, had pointed out that Prof Kong's self-composed Tang Dynasty-style poem on his did not rhyme correctly.
From BBC • May 10, 2013
Susan has been self-composed for the entire film; we catch glimpses of quiet tenderness, but never moments of childhood abandon, of genuine, happy surprise.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2012
As she watched these newsreels, what Tessie noticed wasn’t the bombed-out buildings but the sidewalk cafes, the fountains, the self-composed, urbane little dogs.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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