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Definition of sangfroid in English: sangfroidnounsɒ̃ˈfrwɑːsɑŋˈfrwɑ mass nounComposure or coolness shown in danger or under trying circumstances. 冷静，镇定，沉着 Example sentencesExamples - His burgeoning running power and growing sangfroid when presented with openings which his fizzing forwards have engineered have allowed him to ratchet up his game several notches over the past six months.
- Setting up shop in the zone between intimacy and intrusion, a place where emotional and expressive prerogatives are negotiated, is a risky business that he manages with perfect sangfroid.
- Some looked lovingly at their own canvases, others noted with sangfroid the disaster below, letting a drop of inspiration fall from a cauldron or the light of apotheosis beam down from a flashlight.
- What the play needs, but doesn't get in his staging, is British sangfroid and coolly clipped British-accented delivery unraveling in just the right places.
- I did not, I am sorry to say, demonstrate the same sangfroid.
- It took exceptional sangfroid, not to mention bicycling technique, to hold your line in the slick subterranean darkness.
- So while he may seem to have achieved his political sangfroid without effort, the evidence of Poems suggests otherwise.
- We attracted little attention from the busy shoppers or even (make that especially) from the store management, and in the process developed the sangfroid, dexterity, and stealth needed for the successful completion of our operation.
- His sangfroid with regards to the regeneration of the forest was appealing to lumber company officials, who were interested in regeneration but not in large monetary investments on such an extremely long-term proposition.
- He did not expect his readers literally to become highwaymen, or even lady-killers; but he did expect them to identify with his courage, audacity and sangfroid.
- My nurses are beginning to comment that my countenance reflects a certain lack of sangfroid normally found neatly stacked within.
- She found it hard to share her son's sangfroid.
- Offering the most welcoming stage for the talented, the city with equal sangfroid accepts the misery of millions who fail to flourish.
- Necessity made us philosophers, and we were obliged to show as much sangfroid on the subject as himself; for it was impossible to turn away without our prudery's exciting more attention than would have been pleasant.
- It is the most dazzling display of agility and sangfroid I have ever seen.
- In the view of some it is as if the management of the FRG has failed, in its hostile takeover of a failed rust-belt industry, to treat its newly acquired property with sufficient sangfroid.
- Salut's assessment was tinged with sangfroid.
- Noticeable and interesting trouble arises when the admitted depression of the loser is occupied with the wary sangfroid normal to one who takes back by pride or turned wit a synthetic freedom which had been confiscated by ‘consensus’.
- Napoleon once stated, ‘He who is full of courage and sangfroid before an enemy battery sometimes trembles before a skirt.’
- He made the situation not seem as difficult as it was with his sangfroid manner.
Synonyms composure, equanimity, self-possession, level-headedness, equilibrium, aplomb, poise, assurance, self-assurance, self-control, nerve, calmness, coolness, countenance, collectedness, imperturbability, presence of mind informal cool, unflappability
OriginMid 18th century: from French sang-froid, literally 'cold blood'. Definition of sangfroid in US English: sangfroidnounsɑŋˈfrwɑsäNGˈfrwä Composure or coolness, sometimes excessive, as shown in danger or under trying circumstances. 冷静，镇定，沉着 Example sentencesExamples - Necessity made us philosophers, and we were obliged to show as much sangfroid on the subject as himself; for it was impossible to turn away without our prudery's exciting more attention than would have been pleasant.
- It took exceptional sangfroid, not to mention bicycling technique, to hold your line in the slick subterranean darkness.
- My nurses are beginning to comment that my countenance reflects a certain lack of sangfroid normally found neatly stacked within.
- Offering the most welcoming stage for the talented, the city with equal sangfroid accepts the misery of millions who fail to flourish.
- His sangfroid with regards to the regeneration of the forest was appealing to lumber company officials, who were interested in regeneration but not in large monetary investments on such an extremely long-term proposition.
- He did not expect his readers literally to become highwaymen, or even lady-killers; but he did expect them to identify with his courage, audacity and sangfroid.
- I did not, I am sorry to say, demonstrate the same sangfroid.
- Napoleon once stated, ‘He who is full of courage and sangfroid before an enemy battery sometimes trembles before a skirt.’
- Noticeable and interesting trouble arises when the admitted depression of the loser is occupied with the wary sangfroid normal to one who takes back by pride or turned wit a synthetic freedom which had been confiscated by ‘consensus’.
- Salut's assessment was tinged with sangfroid.
- He made the situation not seem as difficult as it was with his sangfroid manner.
- His burgeoning running power and growing sangfroid when presented with openings which his fizzing forwards have engineered have allowed him to ratchet up his game several notches over the past six months.
- In the view of some it is as if the management of the FRG has failed, in its hostile takeover of a failed rust-belt industry, to treat its newly acquired property with sufficient sangfroid.
- Setting up shop in the zone between intimacy and intrusion, a place where emotional and expressive prerogatives are negotiated, is a risky business that he manages with perfect sangfroid.
- It is the most dazzling display of agility and sangfroid I have ever seen.
- Some looked lovingly at their own canvases, others noted with sangfroid the disaster below, letting a drop of inspiration fall from a cauldron or the light of apotheosis beam down from a flashlight.
- What the play needs, but doesn't get in his staging, is British sangfroid and coolly clipped British-accented delivery unraveling in just the right places.
- So while he may seem to have achieved his political sangfroid without effort, the evidence of Poems suggests otherwise.
- She found it hard to share her son's sangfroid.
- We attracted little attention from the busy shoppers or even (make that especially) from the store management, and in the process developed the sangfroid, dexterity, and stealth needed for the successful completion of our operation.
Synonyms composure, equanimity, self-possession, level-headedness, equilibrium, aplomb, poise, assurance, self-assurance, self-control, nerve, calmness, coolness, countenance, collectedness, imperturbability, presence of mind
OriginMid 18th century: from French sang-froid, literally ‘cold blood’. |