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sangfroid
- 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.â€
Example Sentences
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.
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.
It's also the source of Frasier’s winning vulnerability, distilled by Grammer into a cocktail of haughty sangfroid, grumpiness and keen loneliness.
Still, there is a special level of sangfroid required to sit down with famous people in front of a camera and an audience and just … talk.
Desirée is at the eye of the musical’s romantic hurricane, and Dandridge captures the character’s sangfroid in the midst of chaos.
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