self-composed
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-composed
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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Played by an aptly deadpan Jack Novak, the egomaniacal yet decorum- focused servant is employed at a Baron’s castle, where he insists on communicating need-to-know information via self-composed jangly rhymes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019
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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