Keeping Cool in the Nuclear Heat

He has to have poise.

She kept her composure only because her mother was there.

The most important thing is to keep our heads.

And that is the mental quality of equanimity.

He's discovered his own capacity for equanimity.

He lost his reason when he saw his house burn down.

I mean, I'm wearing a tie, first.

Jumping, and movements that require collection, are some of the more stressful activities.

The market offered variety, coolness, and the compelling argument of food.

Now, said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one who had kept his composure.

The strangest thing about the Duma election was that Putin lost his nerve.

At worst, possession, and he'd been seized by an evil jinn, a spirit out to deceive him, even crush the life out of him.

The practice of calmness, of immobility, of certainty and security, suddenly breaks down, Keynes wrote.

That's what I would call equanimity, or equilibrium, and it's the kind of state of mind that cannot be perfumed in any way by anything that happens outside you.

But perhaps if they'd been able to read their fears more like a scientist, with more coolness of judgment, they would have listened instead to the less violent but the more likely tale, the story of starvation, and headed for Tahiti, just as Melville's sad commentary suggests.

I mean, I'm wearing a tie, first. And then secondly, I'm a little bit nervous because I'm speaking in a foreign language, and I want to apologize in advance, for any mistakes I might make.

In short, as long as China s government is not so unnerved by the slowdown in output growth that it changes its current policy stance, the current account surplus is more likely to continue to fall relative to GDP than it is to rebound in 2013 and thereafter.