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aplomb
1. served, and she handled with absolute tact and aplomb every
2. She complained bitterly of a frost bitten face and hand which we ignored with our usual aplomb
3. It was the first time I saw the SAP not breaking up an illegal protest with its usual aplomb
4. Having recovered his aplomb by then, Tony began an attempt to recover the seductive atmosphere of the evening, but it was clearly lost
5. with the world's stress with aplomb, relaxed and cool, and without any
6. The Visioneer delivered his final speech with aplomb, “For
7. Dilimon had stared at her a moment before he recovered his aplomb
8. Ralph quells the bubble of laughter that rises to his throat and lies with the aplomb of a true Tregannon and Overlord
9. Eberhard wore the face of a Basset Hound with aplomb, oozing helplessness and kindling the protective instinct in women who were drawn to him like moths to a candle
10. Get into the habit of treating your work with a certain amount of aplomb
11. He was tall and wore his suit with its fashionable ruffled blouse with aplomb
12. He secretly admired her assurance and aplomb: up to now he couldn’t help like her, even though she could potentially be very dangerous
13. ‘’That woman has an incredible aplomb, to say the least
14. Her aplomb stunned so much the army officer that he didn’t stop her or shouted at her as she turned around and left the dugout, pushing past the two soldiers and climbing the stairs
15. As Douglas MacArthur smiled and George Kenney blew air out, impressed by Ingrid’s aplomb, most of the other participants to the conference looked at Ingrid as if she had just changed into another person
16. ” She said with aplomb looking back
17. Mark took control with all the aplomb of one who normally chooses to spend his vacation in a vampire-infested swamp and spelled out our request with moronically exaggerated hand gestures
18. Mazarin nodded his head once, secretly impressed by her aplomb
19. action with great aplomb
20. Carefully fielding her mother’s questions and comments, while acutely aware of Joel’s nearness and that he was listening in on her end of the conversation, Kathy deftly answered her mom with as much aplomb as possible
21. However, she’d become more comfortable in the presence of Joel and his famous and powerful friends, so she was able to introduce them to Annie, with a little more aplomb than she normally would’ve been able to do so
22. figures and he would do it with such seriousness and aplomb that it would be impossible to
23. Not a shred of his former aplomb remained
24. „Better to be lackey than unlucky,' Roy punned with much show of aplomb
25. „The sticky whiskers,' the Prof said with much aplomb
26. feet you're massaging Doc, and not my buttocks,' he cautioned with over the top aplomb
27. about to voice my disgust of the ivory trade, he said with much aplomb, „Synthetic ivory of
28. said with much aplomb
29. In the satisfaction and aplomb of animals,
30. Always mature for her age, she had gained a certain aplomb in both carriage and conversation, which made her seem more of a woman of the world than she was, but her old petulance now and then showed itself, her strong will still held its own, and her native frankness was unspoiled by foreign polish
31. His robust aplomb had fascinated the rustics
32. Bush now steps into the thankless role of vice president with the same aplomb he brought to each of his previous jobs
33. who picked it up in the crush after witnessing the occurrence meaning to return it to him (and return it to him he did with the utmost celerity) who panting and hatless and whose thoughts were miles away from his hat at the time all the same being a gentleman born with a stake in the country he, as a matter of fact, having gone into it more for the kudos of the thing than anything else, what's bred in the bone instilled into him in infancy at his mother's knee in the shape of knowing what good form was came out at once because he turned round to the donor and thanked him with perfect aplomb, saying: Thank you, sir, though in a very different tone of voice from the ornament of the legal profession whose headgear Bloom also set to rights earlier in the course of the day, history repeating itself with a difference, after the burial of a mutual friend when they had left him alone in his glory after the grim task of having committed his remains to the grave
34. Even at his age he is a vain dog and loves to be beautified, but when he found he was to be left and in Chicago, his ordinary aplomb broke down and he cried out in rage and despair
35. These words, uttered with firmness and aplomb, and expressing an exceptional presence of mind, for the first minute so astounded us that we could not believe our ears
36. As is always the case, the more cloudy and confused the conception conveyed by a word, with the more aplomb and self-assurance do people use that word, pretending that what is understood by it is so simple and clear that it is not worth while even to discuss what it actually means
37. And I am always certain beforehand that some one near me will say with infallible aplomb: 'Look at it
38. But in what does this superiority consist? Push, aplomb, finery, what? We cannot concede that it lies in exceptional accomplishments, or in any rare degree of scholarship
39. She held her little round chin high in the air and devoted herself to Drake with all the aplomb of a Felicia
