9 Metaphors for calmness

and of calmness in argument: Calmness is great advantage: he that lets Another chafe may warm him at his fire.

As a practised critic remarked, "her calmness was the truest expression of her agony of joy.

" So spoke Nick, and this time Jones' calmness was not proof against the surprise.

That calmness of mind, that serenity of temper, that composure and quietness of demeanor, which are the first essentials of Cha-no-yu are without doubt the first conditions of right thinking and right feeling.

Amidst the wild exploits and wilder rumors of those crucial days when Belgium was the central figure in the world-war, the calmness of the natives was a source of constant wonder.

He says, p. 154: "Mr. Newman tells me, that I have clearly a profound unbelief in the Christian doctrine of divine influence, or I could not thus grossly insult it I answer... that which Harrington ridiculed, as the context would have shown Mr. Newman, if he had had the patience to read on, and the calmness to judge, is the chaotic view of inspiration, formally held by Mr. Parker, who is expressly referred to, "Eclipse," p. 81."

Speaking thus, Negoro, whose apparent calmness was only the result of an immense effort, had brought his form near Dick Sand.

Their calmness is but a pretense.

She tells Madame de Polignac that Elizabeth's calmness is one great relief and support to them all; and Elizabeth can not find adequate words to express to one of her correspondents her admiration for the queen's "piety and resignation, which alone enable her to bear up against troubles such as no one before has ever known.

9 Metaphors for  calmness