Word: aplomb
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Perhaps her athlete's instincts told King that when the ghastly truth splits open like a suitcase, one's moves must be fast and sure. Public figures rarely have that aplomb: when someone abruptly turns on the light and catches them, they bunk in astonishment and guilt or reach their palms out desperately to cover the lens of the minicam...
...have led to a new problem more the some still than the eternal defense against the resentment of the envious masses: long sufference of their attempts at familiarity and imitation. Groton-bred Robert A. Humphreville '80, office manager of the Hasty Pudding Club, has lost none of his preppy aplomb in the face of this nouveau nuisance. "I find it slightly tiresome that people who come from different backgrounds compensate by dressing in a way they don't come by naturally," he drawled to Newsweek. "I have a bit of casual contempt for these people...
What a man this President is-his courage, his joking, his aplomb after being wounded. Millions suddenly realized how much they love and respect...
...guest or the audience. The aim of such shows, after all, is to inform more than to entertain. In fair, informed and gentlemanly questioning, no one excels Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer of public television. The self-restraint is admirable, but such a style of questioning lacks the articulate aplomb, the audacity that is close to rudeness, favored by British interviewers who put their own country's political figures in the dock, Fallaci-style...
Meeting with the press in a relaxed and orderly session, the President displayed charm, aplomb and the indifference to some details in the briefing books that has distinguished his public performances from those of his fact-happy predecessor Jimmy Carter. While Reagan began many of his answers with his trademark "Well ..." and ducked a few queries altogether, he forcefully re-emphasized basic themes...