Synonym: possession, self-command, self-control, self-will, willpower. Similar words: self-possessed, possession, repossession, dispossession, take possession of, possessive, possessiveness, possessively. Meaning: n. the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior.
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1) He looked surprised but soon recovered his self-possession.
2) He soon recovered his usual self-possession.
3) She found her customary self-possession had deserted her.
4) Self-awareness self-knowledge self-possession self-control self-expression.
5) But leaders, having achieved self-possession, have long since recovered their creative powers, too, and have continued to grow.
6) Without embracing the idea of self-possession.
7) The major recovered his self-possession .
8) Phillip admired Tom's arrogance and self-possession.
9) " In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things" (William Butler Yeats).
10) I did not discover that Hamlet had his self-possession from no schooling but from indifference and passion conquering sweetness, and that less heroic minds can but hope it from old age.
11) We can detect a nascent self-possession the east has not known for many centuries. That is what is new among Asians – elusive, unannounced and unmistakable all at once.
12) And your calmness, self-possession and patience can guide me to peace.
13) She went to sleep for a respite, and when she woke up Stephen was in drafty self-possession.
14) Under the gloomy strip lighting of a police interrogation cell he might be stripped of his self-possession,[http://sentencedict.com/self-possession.html] and confess.
15) Our desire to please them will take precedence over our own needs, and our self-possession will be compromised.
16) Preserving advanced nature of Party must be followed by Party members' self-possession.
17) Thus, it is practical significance to advance the strategically value and strengthen the research on self-possession property right technology standards to the economic growth contribution.
18) 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?
19) Because of his small size and fair good looks (and maybe also because of that very quality of self-possession I had admired), the sisters were after Andy from the day he walked in.
20) It's perfectly impossible, I think, to imagine a stronger statement than this of the authority that Milton gives, the intellectual self-possession that he ascribes, to the individual.
21) The best way to live is from a state of self-possession, to move confidently, expanding that wholeness.
22) Something in the precision of her walk, in her air of self-possession, reminded me of my daughter Zoe.
23) It is a wine of bearing with pure fruit flavors and good structure. The blend seemed to make itself. We like the wines sense of self-possession and charm.
24) Let us hope that other nations, without forfeiting their own beliefs, also summon enough self-possession to help China try.
25) She most likely has experience in law enforcement or the military, though she may simply be a self-defense advocate or a dedicated hobbyist with uncommon self-possession .
26) Yes, she is sometimes an ambassador for American designers, but more important, she is an ambassador for the self-possession that defines American style.
27) Her attitude and the troubled expression of her face, as well as her voice, indicated that the logic of the situation was overthrowing the jaunty self-possession which she had at first affected.
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