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equanimity
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  • When he made a profit, he accepted it with equanimity; when he made losses, he laughed and said...  (source)
    equanimity = steadiness of mind
  • Kat surprises Tjaden endeavouring with perfect equanimity to knock the driving-band off a dud. If anyone else had tried it the thing would have exploded, but Tjaden always has his luck with him.  (source)
    equanimity = a calm mental state under difficult circumstances
  • The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity.  (source)
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  • Rosellini appeared to accept the failure of his hypothesis with equanimity.†  (source)
    equanimity = a calm mental state under difficult circumstances
  • While the Bird had badgered him, he had awaited his fate with equanimity.†  (source)
  • No. It's to encourage them to face the destruction of Earth civilization with equanimity.†  (source)
  • Only Baboo passed the time with equanimity, head on paws, hypnotized by the sight of falling water, sometimes even rolling on his back to watch the proceedings upside down.†  (source)
  • To pretend to face the tragedy with equanimity.†  (source)
  • It was hard to imagine him ever lonely, or bored or despondent; his equanimity was bottomless, as was his lack of ambition, and he assumed that everyone else was much like him.†  (source)
  • Claudia, meantime, was flirting with disaster, her equanimity overwhelming to me as she read her vampire books and asked Lestat questions.†  (source)
  • My father's equanimity was not, however, allowed to last.†  (source)
  • What he needed during such times was equanimity.†  (source)
  • Only Jormundur-after a brief jolt of surprise-seemed to accept the announcement with equanimity.†  (source)
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