I hadn't just failed to shave; I'd deviated from his ethos of unflappability.
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For Kinshasa's weary drivers, dealing with the police requires charm, negotiation skills and unflappability.
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Will the candidates react with grace, humor and unflappability, or with anger and uncertainty?
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And Baldwin, with his own brand of unflappability, points out that we may never.
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Years later, when asked about his pupil, the first quality Betts remembers is Wilson's unflappability.
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But what she substituted for spark on Thursday night was a supremely cool confidence and unflappability.
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Clinton pointed to her face-off with the Republican-led Benghazi committee as a sign of her unflappability.
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Luckily, Mr. Singh has a New Yorker's seen-it-all unflappability and a deep bench of faithful customers.
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This unflappability, or the absence of it, can also be the result of a person's temperament or past experiences.
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Leo has a cheery unflappability, and his glee at being indispensable to adults on a big adventure is infectious.
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She became an assistant to Sayles and the producer Maggie Renzi, both of whom she impressed with her unflappability.
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Such unflappability is one reason so many voters simply do not focus on the fact she is a woman.
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Most important, they should possess a sense of total unflappability and persistent sang-froid in the face of chaos.
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Mr. Rubio's aura of unflappability was pierced, and his opponents pounced — and, to their surprise, he kept looking off-balance.
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Her steel nerves and unflappability, which had earlier been displayed in the marathon grilling of the Benghazi hearings, were deeply impressive.
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But here he was describing domestic scenes in vivid detail and ripping his heart out with raw passion, betraying his usual unflappability.
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Coded as street rap, which means trap, Simi represents the gradual shift of trap conventions toward supposedly more classicist virtues: spareness, unflappability, exactitude.
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And it all comes through with little interruption from the hosts, who absorb whatever blasts through the telephone with a preternatural unflappability and calm.
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Many student butlers here said they had watched and rewatched the show as an instruction video on the self-effacing unflappability of domestic service.
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We're always yoked to a president's psyche — to George W. Bush's itch for separation from his father, to Barack Obama's investment in his own unflappability.
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Teammates praise his unflappability, and by Week 6 he appeared to have found his groove and was on a pace for 3,245 yards and 210 touchdowns.
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And Hayley feels limited by her role as a level-headed straight man (or woman), with her unflappability only really paying off in the film's weirdest moments.
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She picked him to be the star of the photos because of his "been there done that" attitude and "general unflappability," making him the perfect passive model.
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News Analysis MANCHESTER, N.H. — In the Republican race for president, Senator Marco Rubio's soaring oratory, firm command of policy and steely unflappability are his sword, helmet and shield.
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While he has displayed flashes of unflappability, there's an observable shelf life to that (about 20-30 minutes) at which point he reverts to being ruffled and rough, perturbed and even petty.
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Those writers allow themselves to be genuinely troubled or flummoxed by what they see, whereas Amis is hampered by his unflappability and his reluctance to be seen taking the wrong things too seriously.
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There was a certain unflappability about Romney in 2012, who let numerous taunts slide off him as he demolished his Republican opponents one by one, both on the debate stage and on the airwaves.
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That goal may not carry the same kind of pressure Williams felt going for a calendar-year Grand Slam last year, but Kerber's unflappability so far has still come as something of a surprise.
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Yet thanks to her hard work and Trump's fecklessness, Clinton ended up displaying all the traits that men are traditionally supposed to have for the presidency—the steadiness, the unflappability, the steeliness under pressure and assault.
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It's clear that the rest of the Raptors, under a sharp rookie coach in Nick Nurse, have taken on a good bit of their star's unflappability — and were all ready for this moment with that withering defense they play.
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If Mr. Howard can save "Solo," once a seemingly surefire summer hit now clouded by tales of behind-the-scenes disarray, it would cement his reputation for unflappability and show he can succeed at any scale, in any genre.
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And comparing the Night King's complete unflappability in the face of three dragons to Jaime Lannister's wide-eyed horror when looking at the work of one of them just makes it clearer than ever that the leader of the undead horde is an inhuman, implacable foe like none other on the show.
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When you are immature, every bad thing can feel like a crisis, and every good thing like ecstasy; the rest of the world watches us with a sense of weariness and unflappability that is earned only after many centuries of witnessing governments and empires and civilizations and self-styled saviors rise, crescendo and tumble.
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The director Thomas Kail, who won one of the show's 11 Tony Awards last year, said that part of what got Mr. Westman the role was his unflappability throughout the auditions, during which he performed in close quarters for potentially unnerving audiences that included Mr. Miranda and Cameron Mackintosh, who owns the theater where "Hamilton" is expected to settle in for a long run.
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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Dubbed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability. Macmillan served in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He was wounded three times, most severely in September 1916.
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Sampson (1967) Macmillan: A Study in Ambiguity Similarly, although Macmillan told journalist Jocelyn Stevens in 1963 that he had three shooting suits and "rather like[d] them",Queen, May 1963 the "grouse-moor" image which had, only a few years earlier, been seen as "enhancing the backdrop of the Prime Minister's unflappability",Alistair Horne (1989) Macmillan: Volume II 1957-1986 now seemed something of a liability.
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USA Today rated The Martian three out of four stars, calling it "terrific stuff, a crackling good read" but noting that "Mark's unflappability, perhaps the book's biggest asset, is also its greatest weakness. He's a wiseacre with a tendency to steer well clear of existential matters." Amazing Stories commented, "Andy Weir's The Martian will leave you as breathless as if you'd been dropped on the Martian surface without a suit".
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Some called for Livingstone's removal, but Michael Foot's assistant Una Cooze defended Livingstone's position. Television and radio outlets invited Livingstone for interviews; described by biographer John Carvel as having "one of the best television styles of any contemporary politician", Livingstone used this medium to speak to a wider audience, gaining widespread public support, something Carvel attributed to his "directness, self-deprecation, colourful language, complete unflappability under fire and lack of pomposity", coupled with popular policies like Fares Fair.
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Obama campaigning in New Hampshire, August 2007 Barack Obama, who was elected as the 44th President of the United States, has elicited a number of public perceptions regarding his personality and background. As the first African- American President of the United States, his race and culture played a prominent role, both positively and negatively. His relative youth (47 when elected) has alternately resulted in his being praised for his freshness and criticized for his inexperience. His temperament and demeanor have been praised for perceived unflappability, but criticized for a perception of lacking emotional attachment.
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The band combine modern technology with archaic instrumentation over various media. The members have said they have dedicated their lives to art, to explore the nobleness of centuries in many possible ways (music, poetry, theatre, and photography). They define themselves as "craftsmen of the sound" because they create an unusual mix of sacred and profane, atmospheric and experimental, contemporary and early music, using acoustic and electric instruments as well, always with such language which fits best to the actual work. The word ataraxia is taken from Epicurean philosophy and means "equanimity", "calmness" and "unflappability".
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Some called for Livingstone's removal, but Michael Foot's Trotskyist assistant Una Cooze defended Livingstone's position to her boss.Hosken 2008. p. 109. Television and radio outlets welcomed Livingstone on for interviews; described by biographer John Carvel as having "one of the best television styles of any contemporary politician", Livingstone used this medium to speak to a wider audience, gaining widespread public support, something Carvell attributed to his "directness, self-deprecation, colourful language, complete unflappability under fire and lack of pomposity", coupled with genuinely popular policies such as Fares Fair.Carvel 1984. p. 102.
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On the occasion of her death, the heads of the party, Robert Hue (party president) and Marie-George Buffet (national secretary and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports) underlined that, although they disagreed with the deceased on a number of points, they still saluted the unflappability of her convictions and the permanence of her involvement. After 1950, Jeannette Vermeersch also used the name Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch, but she is usually known by her historical pseudonym, notably within the Communist Party. She never used the name Jeannette Thorez. She died in Callian, Var.
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Han Do-kyung (Choi Ji-woo) was especially scouted by the Incheon Airport director and willingly accepted one-third of the pay she was receiving in Singapore, to come back to Korea as the chief of operations of Incheon International Airport. She is level-headed, speaks five different languages, and remains cool and calm under all circumstances. However, Do-kyung lives with the emotional wounds caused by her estrangement from her sister Yi-kyung, a pilot (Lee Da-hee). Do-kyung's unflappability is put to the test when she meets rash National Intelligence Service agent Kim Ji-sung (Lee Jung-jae).
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