1) Carter looked stunned, but he soon regained his composure.

2) She totally lost her composure and began shouting.

3) He behaved with great composure.

4) Throughout the crisis he retained his composure.

5) With her composure, she survived every atempt to discountenance her.

6) Try to keep your composure.

7) He wondered at her composure in such a crisis.

8) He showed great composure in a difficult situation.

9) She answered with perfect composure.

10) Nothing could ruffle his composure.

11) His composure threw us off.

12) She recovered herself/her composure and smiled.

13) The new evidence against him cracked his composure.

14) Keep calm. You shouldn't lose your composure.

15) I didn't want to lose my composure in front of her.

16) For once Dimbleby lost his composure. It was all he could do to stop tears of mirth falling down his cheeks.

17) He has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation.

18) He maintained his composure despite a desperate desire to laugh.

19) He looked stunned,(http:///composure.html) but he soon regained his composure .

20) She was trying desperately to regain her composure.

21) They lose their composure so easily.

22) Quakers didn't lose their composure after the break.

23) He began to recover his composure.

24) Gwendolen loses her composure and huddles in terror.

25) Men strove to maintain their composure.

26) Gone was the vagueness, gone the composure.

27) De Gaulle, however, did not lose his composure.

28) The widow broke down in tears, but her daughters maintained their composure.

29) Little boys, in particular, are taught to suppress their tears and to maintain their composure at all costs.

30) Unfortunately, the decision to opt for smoothness rather than scruffiness, composure rather than gaucheness, is not an innocent choice.

1) Carter looked stunned, but he soon regained his composure.

2) She totally lost her composure and began shouting.

3) Throughout the crisis he retained his composure.

4) Try to keep your composure.

5) He wondered at her composure in such a crisis.

31) Freed from the stones' strange attraction to its parts, H-5 regained its composure and lived up to expectations.

32) Her family prepares Catherine for the trip with moderation and composure rather than histrionics, and the journey itself is uneventful.

33) Marcos's widow Imelda broke down in tears but her daughters Imee and Irene maintained their composure.

34) While Timman played with impressive composure, Speelman seemed oddly distracted.

35) She has achieved a maturity and composure that had seemed beyond her scope.

36) He looked stunned, almost in a trance, but he soon regained his composure.

37) It fell with a crash which rattled her composure and set her heart thudding.

38) The Doctor struggled hard to retain his composure after this revelation.

39) I keep a straight face and the composure of a chemist dispensing a prescription.

39) Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

40) The moment the stairway door closed behind her, the elevator regained its composure and followed her down.

41) If his composure is not guarded, is it fair to him to hold him accountable for hat he said?

42) Important personal traits for funeral directors are composure, tact, and the ability to communicate easily with the public.

43) She was very pale, but bore herself with rigid composure.

44) Another cadet - freckled Hake Bjortson - totally lost his composure.

45) She walked slowly towards the door, struggling to regain her composure.

46) Meantime there was greater need for unity, greater need for national composure than ever.

47) And in the face of a challenge far greater than athletic competition, she never lost her composure.

48) Had Portsmouth shown, in front of goal, the composure they had produced elsewhere, they might have been two up before half-time.

49) Its owners showed far less composure, and streamed towards us from all sides.

50) Remember to maintain composure in your behaviour, and to answer questions succinctly.

51) A good director of middle-brow comedy, he loses his composure when matters turn serious.

52) Barbara, as usual, seemed to be placing a premium on maintaining her composure.

53) Glenn Hoddle's Swindon regained their composure as County lost theirs.

54) By the time he regains his composure and manages to return home, he realizes that he has thrown away his life.

55) The news of his impending death had badly ruffled his composure.

56) He is a sensational, irresistible presence who has the composure and concentration of a ballet dancer.

57) She is a girl of about 12, and she faces the camera with the calm composure of an innocent.

58) He spoke without much prompting and I was encouraged by his composure.

59) I picked up reasonable speed and had just about regained my composure when a hand appeared on my left shoulder from behind!

60) Wagner remembered that Tuesday with quiet composure, neither tearful nor vengeful.

61) He showed his love for his own players and brought honor to himself with his composure and class.

62) She sat at our feet in perfect composure, head high, her eyes never meeting my gaze.

63) After relating the bare facts of the suicide decades later, Dan looked away, shuddering to keep his composure.

64) She watched his rugged composure, heard his deep, distinctive laugh and felt anger swelling inside.

65) To regain her composure, she opened the wine bottle in the kitchen and took a sip.

66) Above her head, Pauline gazed out at the camera with composure, her dark hair smooth, her dark brows winged.

67) Slowly a sense of her own power made itself clear to her, and she regained her composure.

68) In defence they had their scary moments before McNamara struck, but generally handled Chris Sutton and Larsson with composure.

69) I maintained my composure, but made plain that I thought this was a really stupid policy, and left.

70) She looked out of the car window, struggling to regain her composure.

71) That I maintained my usual composure was to me a miracle, and once more we were on our way to the frontier.

72) He blew his nose vigorously, straightened his dressing gown and made a determined effort to regain a measure of composure.

73) Not until the final quarter did the home side recover their composure, by which time it was way too late.

74) Mr Foster maintained his composure: If acceptable manners were a paddock, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not yet jumped the fence.

75) And Nina, crouched in a chair, weak and pale as though any movement might shatter her thinly held composure.

76) Her rickety composure had nothing whatever to do with him.

77) Respect this holy place, and abide all fates with composure, as mankind should.

78) The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure.

79) At that, Reno lost her cool composure.

80) Beneath Ruth's composure he sensed an uncharacteristic hardness.

81) To disrupt the composure of; disconcert.

82) He showed great composure in difficult situations.

83) But he waited until Ottenshawe had regained his composure.

84) The cross-legged deity exudes wisdom and composure.

85) It took him a while to regain his composure.

86) To deprive of composure or emotional stability; unnerve.

87) The editor was thankful, and resumed his composure.

88) The Nuggets, who led the league in technicals during the season, were unable to keep their composure on the road.

89) He could see that she was struggling to preserve her composure.

90) The simultaneous interpreter under siege simulated composure and shrugged off the trouble.

91) Temperament is in the eye of the voter. Is one response evidence of composure and self-possession — or of being too laid-back and unassertive?

92) They went with great composure, that very instant, to change their dress.

93) Optimism is the composure after failure, the generosity in ordinariness, the unyieldingness after setbacks.

94) Mrs. Pardiggle had been regarding him through her spectacles with a forcible composure.

95) The combination of political stability and popular composure has given emerging markets what might be called "policy space" in which to act. They have used it to the full—and mostly for the better.

96) We should frame our minds to the becoming composure of still - life.

97) She thought his smug two-year-old grin of self-amusement and satisfaction would drive her to the brink, but she maintained her composure.

98) As for their mother, Mr. Collins's letter had done away much of her ill-will, and she was preparing to see him with a degree of composure which astonished her husband and daughters.

99) Even the Wall seemed barely to have dented the city's composure.

100) Superficially , Hitler soon appeared to have regained his usual composure.

101) Stopping only briefly to regain her composure, she described her agonising ordeal.

102) "He ... stood in the porch a minute to recover his composure" (John Galsworthy).

103) After regaining my composure, I said, " I guess my father really does love me. "

104) Soon he got back his composure and walked sulkily home.

105) He saw that she was disturbed, and shaken out of her cool boyish composure.

106) The composure I gained as a troop leader helped me to excel in my role as supervisor at a large walking horse farm.

107) The sight of his composure had a disturbing effect on Lily.

108) He was obviously very shocked but he soon regained his composure.

109) It is impossible to live without some daily ruffles to our composure.

110) A new worry about debt default in Hungary and some moderately disappointing U.S. jobs data on Friday acted as a brake on what had been a gradual return of composure after a rough couple of months.

111) For a minute he looked uncertain, and then recovered his composure.

112) Conclusion The composure function of chloral hydrate taking by enema is superior that of taking orally.

113) She could not bear with composure to become a standing joke with Mrs. Jennings.

114) Nothing could ruffle the perfect composure with which she casually greets members of staff.