Crossword clues for imperturbability
imperturbability
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imperturbability \Im`per*turb`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The state or quality of being imperturbable.
Wiktionary
n. A state of calm, unruffled self-assurance; aplomb, composure.
WordNet
n. calm and unruffled self-assurance; "he performed with all the coolness of a veteran" [syn: coolness, imperturbableness]
Usage examples of "imperturbability".
His fellow-servants, who, during the colloquy, had looked on with gentlemanlike imperturbability, made a simultaneous step forward.
But that night he waited in vain for Mahomet at the packed Casino, where the Arab chieftains and the English gentlemen, alike in their tremendous calm, were losing money at petits chevaux with all the imperturbability of stone statues.
And it was some further training for the Blood Royal to display his acquired British imperturbability, to bite off the howl that a well-applied cane tended to draw forth, and to stand straight afterwards with hardly a skip to betray his discomfort, with hardly a rub at the smarting royal posterior, and with the tears blinked manfully back.