41 examples of aplomb in sentences

This assurance, this recklessness, this aplomb, quite bewildered the girl, who posed in Richmond for a passed mistress of flirting.

I had known Godfrey rather intimately ever since the days when we were thrown together in solving the Holladay case, and I admired sincerely his ready wit, his quick insight, and his unshakable aplomb.

They came in grand costume, moving in their fantastic attire with so much aplomb and genteel measure that the stranger found it difficult not to believe them high-born gentlemen, attending a fancy-dress ball.

Generations of anatomists solemnly asserted, repeating each other's mistakes with the aplomb of the historians who declare that history repeats itself, that the pineal body was a useless, wastefully space consuming vestige of a once important structure.

unchangeableness^; constancy; stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment^, stiffness, ankylosis^, solidity, aplomb.

[Wisdom in action] prudence &c 864; vigilance &c 459; tact &c 698; foresight &c 510; sobriety, self-possession, aplomb, ballast.

[U.S.]; sand, strength of mind, strength of will; resolve &c (intent) 620; firmness &c (stability) 150; energy, manliness, vigor; game, pluck; resoluteness &c (courage) 861; zeal &c 682; aplomb; desperation; devotion, devotedness.

He lounged about, made amusing remarks on his late friend and patron, swore he would 'cut' him, and in short behaved with his usual aplomb.

Mr. WILL WEST was admirable as a Crichton gone wrong; and Mr. SOTHERN, as the philanderer Purdie, took all his Chances of humour, and they were many, with the greatest aplomb.

She always felt that she could have filled their places with vastly more aplomb.

Then you blurted it all outin, as I could not help thinking as I listened, as school-boyish and abashed a way as if you hadwell, as if you had not been a consummate man of the world, rather noted for your aplomb.

He used this for the beginning of a cough, which he finished with a decent aplomb.

Winona, with surprising aplomb, bore the scrutiny of the family while she pulled long white gloves along her bare arms.

APLOMB, m., assurance.

Except the brilliant bits of writing which, judging from the full abstracts given in translation in the Times, appear to have been interspersed, and except the undoubting self-confidence and aplomb with which a historical survey, reversing the common ideas of mankind, was delivered, there was little new to be learned from M. Renan's treatment of his subject.

I admired again the aplomb with which he accepted the situation.

Smiling, as in consideration of the other's provincial view of things, he rejoined, with an aplomb that would have done credit to a politician, in an explanatory and half-apologetic tone.

At last regaining a semblance of her usual aplomb, she stepped from the pulpit and made toward the door, where others were entering.

He had great aplomb, and was troubled by no shyness nor hesitation.

Not even the Master's aplomb could suppress a strange gleam in his eye, could keep his face from paling a little or his lips from tightening, as he now beheld the inmost shrine of two hundred and thirty million human beings.

But he gave one backward look, piercing and strange, at the Master who had thus delivered him to deatha look that, for all the White Sheik's aplomb, strangely oppressed him.

] Blasé as the Legionaries were and hardened to wonders, the sight of this corridor and of the vast banquet-hall opening out of it, at the far end, came near upsetting their aplomb.

Bristol, sheathed in imperturbable British aplomb, remarked: "Well, so long, boys!

Each of the performersthere are fifty of them all toldhas his part to play, and plays it with commendable aplomb.

The stretcher-bearers do their work with silent aplomb.

41 examples of  aplomb  in sentences