Sangfroid

The question for entrepreneurs — at whom this book, with its admirable sangfroid, is aimed — is: Why do some New Luxury products explode, while others belly-flop harder than a plunging Cadillac Cimarron? ❋ Unknown (2003)

In the weeks and months following Laird's arrival, Padnos watched as Laird developed a kind of sangfroid in his new role as a criminal. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Wilson should not be ignorant, as he really would have been, of this timely service on the part of Mesty, who certainly, although with a great deal of "sangfroid" in his composition when in repose, was a fiend incarnate when his blood was up. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

We'll get him for his shoddy crisis management: Either he has too much nerve, in insisting that he will stay, or he has too little sangfroid. ❋ Josef Joffe (2012)

Black handled the episode with admirable sangfroid, deciding to consider the attempt an exercise to see how al-Qaeda was running its operations. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

Mr. Trichet's appeal, delivered with customary sangfroid, led to a quarrel with his volatile fellow Frenchman, Mr. Sarkozy. ❋ Marcus Walker (2010)

I am emotional, but in a battle I have an unimaginable sangfroid. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The creepiest is a former state senator nicknamed the Shyster, who talks about his pedophilia with unnerving sangfroid. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

As a result, although its self-marketing subtly sells a kind of sleek, mid-last-century Concorde-flying sangfroid, The Economist has reached its current level of influence and importance because it is, in every sense of the word, a true global digest for an age when the amount of undigested, undigestible information online continues to metastasize. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kuznetsova, the 2004 U.S. Open champion in another all-Russian final, channeled the same sangfroid she experienced five years ago to win the French Open on Saturday — her second major trophy — with atypically nerve-free tennis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There to lend a sympathetic ear - when she's not busy piercing it herself with alarming sangfroid - is roomie Rebecca Meester, a troubled little rich girl who latches on to Sara with the carefully calibrated ardor of a well-seasoned stalker. ❋ Ann Hornaday (2011)

Mortimer, Deschanel and Banks each have a different kind of energy that can't penetrate Rudd's sangfroid and thus leads to comedic short-circuiting on the women's parts. ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)

Pegg is meant to be Cruise's comic sidekick, frustrating his super-cool sangfroid with his incessant jabbering. ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)