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  • I wanted to say that he would learn to regard all such catastrophic findings with equanimity as he matured, grew out of his confining literalism, developed a spirit of informed and skeptical inquiry, advanced in wisdom and rounded judgment, got old, declined, died.†   (source)
  • For Sophie Mol's sake, if not her own, Margaret Kochamma did her best to face the tragedy with equanimity.†   (source)
  • My father's equanimity was not, however, allowed to last.†   (source)
  • She endured grins and friendly winks with equanimity—they almost made her feel better.†   (source)
  • But I accepted this with equanimity.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, he was known for his equanimity, his charitableness, and the fact that he paid good wages and distributed frequent bonuses; the men who worked for him-and there were sometimes as many as eighteen-had small reason to complain.†   (source)
  • Only Jormundur-after a brief jolt of surprise-seemed to accept the announcement with equanimity.†   (source)
  • Claudia, meantime, was flirting with disaster, her equanimity overwhelming to me as she read her vampire books and asked Lestat questions.†   (source)
  • Perhaps that explained her equanimity while working shoulder to shoulder with Thomas Stone, a man who for all his talents gave little encouragement to those who labored with him.†   (source)
  • To judge by what he said privately in a letter to a friend, he took the blow with notable equanimity.†   (source)
  • The more rattled he became, the deeper her equanimity.†   (source)
  • Eddis had had just this support in mind when she summoned them, and she submitted to their ministrations with equanimity.†   (source)
  • As it was, I was having a hard time hanging on to a pretense of equanimity.†   (source)
  • 77 Her tone wasn't petulant, or fretful, for she was possessed of a remarkable equanimity, more the way one thinks distinguished, older people to be than young teenage girls.†   (source)
  • The old man did not want to waste energy, because he was beginning to warm up, to feel an oncoming sensation of strength and equanimity.†   (source)
  • What he needed during such times was equanimity.†   (source)
  • He leaped high into the air and bounded off a dozen yards, but having quickly recovered his equanimity he started to edge back toward us.†   (source)
  • He accepted this with an equanimity so complete that he had to get out of the car and go for a walk.†   (source)
  • The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon a law, or rather a tendency, or let us say a probability, or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance, which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often.†   (source)
  • What else could we do? he says in a caustic, cutting voice which surprises Sophie, so at variance does it seem with his previous milky equanimity.†   (source)
  • And while the gung-ho spirit is great for short-range projects, larger ventures generally require somewhat more equanimity.†   (source)
  • To pretend to face the tragedy with equanimity.†   (source)
  • It's to encourage them to face the destruction of Earth civilization with equanimity.†   (source)
  • To underscore my equanimity, I used my knife to cut another bite of meat.†   (source)
  • No. Orrin accepted the news with an equanimity that unsettled her.†   (source)
  • He accepted her animosity with equanimity; it was to be expected, considering her loss.†   (source)
  • That was the promise and meaning of the painting, and the source of Bindo Al-toviti's equanimity.†   (source)
  • "It doesn't matter if you did," she says, with a gentle equanimity.†   (source)
  • Ralph clasped her hand with the sharp-eyed equanimity of a diplomat.†   (source)
  • If he didn't upset it, the equanimity would carry him forward in a trance.†   (source)
  • You turn your back and set the coffee mug on the table and then look out the window again and watch with false equanimity as the boy peers back, hands clasped around the bough he is balanced so far out upon.†   (source)
  • His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him a laughing equanimity even in hard times.†   (source)
  • Do you wish to encourage the people to face the possible destruction of Trisolaran civilization with equanimity?†   (source)
  • The trickster was receding, becoming one of those patient, white faces, whose hunger and equanimity were strangely one.†   (source)
  • As he sat there, he thought of more names, and though none fully described him, his failures did not upset him, for the clarity he felt was too deep-seated for any setback to perturb his equanimity.†   (source)
  • His carefully sculpted pencil mustache and his expression of equanimity, cigarette in hand, bothered Ghosh because he saw in it his own inertia, the thing that had kept him in Africa so long.†   (source)
  • Not even the restless George, who now came slowly toward the doe, his nose outthrust as he tasted her scent, seemed to disturb her equanimity until the big male wolf, perhaps hurt in his dignity by her unconcern, made a quick feint in her direction.†   (source)
  • When Asrat, whose bovine equanimity Hema believed came from having his cows sleep inside his hut at night, said one morning, "If only madam would buy corn feed, the milk would be so thick a spoon would stand up in it," she didn't hesitate.†   (source)
  • Doing so would allow him to accept his fate—as well as the fates of those he loved—with greater equanimity, for he would no longer be directly responsible for whatever happened.†   (source)
  • I think one person can hardly understand why another has conducted his life in such a way, how he came to commit certain actions and not others, whether he looks upon the past with mostly pleasure or equanimity or regret.†   (source)
  • But at that moment, I was seeing my brother anew: the large rounded forehead, the curls that piled up on his head, threatening to fall forward and obscure his sight, the equanimity around the brow and eyes, and his mannerism of putting his finger alongside his cheek just like the Nehru portrait on our wall at home.†   (source)
  • He knew that over the next several weeks his body would respond to the half hour that had just passed, but while the body was still trying to decide what had hit it, he would enjoy his equanimity.†   (source)
  • He was overwhelmed by sensations so keen and clear that he was able to view with equanimity even the prospect of his own death, for the intense satisfaction he now found in nearly all things seemed to be the compression of many years.†   (source)
  • ALESSANDRO GIULIANI believed that if all things went smoothly and well on a journey, the momentum and equanimity of walking or riding would overshadow whatever the traveler had left behind and whatever he was traveling to reach.†   (source)
  • One is somehow convinced by the equanimity of this statement: "I must emphasize that I have never personally hated the Jews.†   (source)
  • The Buddha's eyes quietly looked to the ground; quietly, in perfect equanimity his inscrutable face was smiling.†   (source)
  • He soon saw that Siddhartha knew little about rice and wool, shipping and trade, but that he acted in a fortunate manner, and that Siddhartha surpassed him, the merchant, in calmness and equanimity, and in the art of listening and deeply understanding previously unknown people.†   (source)
  • Sitting there, listening to Larry tell me these wretched things with such straightforward resignation and equanimity, I tried to still the turmoil in my brain.†   (source)
  • And so, sitting high above Rahway in the crowded coach with Sophie dozing beside me, munching on a stale Danish pastry bought from the candy butcher along with a lukewarm carton of milk, I began to regard the unfolding years ahead with equanimity and affection.†   (source)
  • The devotee is expected to contemplate the two with equal equanimity.†   (source)
  • He needed equanimity, if only to accommodate himself to the double life he was compelled to lead.†   (source)
  • In fact, she could endure the hospital with equanimity now because it was a perfect happy hunting ground.†   (source)
  • R— Qualities that in a desolate expedition across the icy solitudes of the Polar region would have made him the leader, the guide, the counsellor, whose temper, neither sanguine nor despondent, surveys with equanimity what is to be and faces it, came to his help again.†   (source)
  • It was his fate in life to have his equanimity always mistaken for pluck, whereas it was actually something much more dispassionate and much less virile.†   (source)
  • "Well," he said with equanimity, "you see, in my opinion there is no point at all in talking about music.†   (source)
  • As he was not in the least precocious, he read whatever was written up for our edification without any comment, and thought with that magnificent equanimity (Latin words come naturally) that was to preserve him from so many meannesses and humiliations, that Lucy's flaxen pigtails and pink cheeks were the height of female beauty.†   (source)
  • No, all those horrors were not near enough as yet even to ruffle the equanimity of that spring afternoon.†   (source)
  • Only the Lighthouse beam entered the rooms for a moment, sent its sudden stare over bed and wall in the darkness of winter, looked with equanimity at the thistle and the swallow, the rat and the straw.†   (source)
  • Only Mammy endured Scarlett's temper with equanimity and Mammy had had many years of training with Gerald O'Hara and his explosions.†   (source)
  • Wash was afraid of horses and only the princely sum offered induced him to take the stubborn pony over the bar dozens of times a day; Mr. Butler, who bore with equanimity having his tail pulled by his small mistress and his hooves examined constantly, felt that the Creator of ponies had not intended him to put his fat body over the bar; Bonnie, who could not bear to see anyone else upon her pony, danced with impatience while Mr. Butler was learning his lessons.†   (source)
  • Thus far had he progressed at Shangri-La, and he remembered that he had attained a similar though far less pleasant equanimity during his years at the War.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Miss Brinklow derived her own kind of satisfaction from a study of Tibetan; meanwhile, also, Mallinson fretted and groused, and Barnard persisted in an equanimity which seemed almost equally remarkable, whether it were real or simulated.†   (source)
  • Rutherford wrote novels; Wyland was one of the Embassy secretaries; he had just given us dinner at Tempelhof--not very cheerfully, I fancied, but with the equanimity which a diplomat must always keep on tap for such occasions.†   (source)
  • But she recovered her equanimity by the time they had travelled a dozen miles.†   (source)
  • She went again, and in so doing temporarily recovered her equanimity.†   (source)
  • Miss Bart listened with admirable equanimity.†   (source)
  • But this was too much for Mr. Jellyband's pleasant equanimity.†   (source)
  • She was too unused as yet to the whims of the man to accept them with equanimity.†   (source)
  • Bo recovered her equanimity quickly enough.†   (source)
  • I paused and smiled reassuringly at Maud, for I had recovered my equanimity sooner than she.†   (source)
  • If I knew what I had done to deserve this I could accept it with equanimity.†   (source)
  • How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!†   (source)
  • But now there was a singular and untimely equanimity within his breast.†   (source)
  • Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity.†   (source)
  • The little party recovered its equanimity at sight of the fragrant feast.†   (source)
  • "I know the dispute to which you allude," observed Mr. Pyncheon with undisturbed equanimity.†   (source)
  • Now that he was fully convinced, Fix had quite recovered his equanimity.†   (source)
  • He would listen to the most pathetic appeals with the most discouraging politeness and equanimity.†   (source)
  • "Thank you, Mademoiselle Hortense," says Mr. Tulkinghorn with his usual equanimity.†   (source)
  • There were several rumours afloat, before long, which upset Totski's equanimity a good deal, but we will not now stop to describe them; merely mentioning an instance or two.†   (source)
  • And in response to Fraulein Engelhart, who without looking at him asked, with a dull blush and a skewed smile, how he liked their new guest. he said with perfect equanimity that Mynheer Peeperkorn was a "blurred personality"—a personality, true, but a blurred one.†   (source)
  • Dale accepted facts of life with that equanimity and fatality acquired by one long versed in the cruel annals of forest lore.†   (source)
  • He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity.†   (source)
  • UNDERSHAFT [pushing him lightly off and resuming his equanimity suddenly and completely] Pooh, Professor! let us call things by their proper names.†   (source)
  • By the time the spot was reached she has recovered her equanimity, and tapped her neighbour with her wand and talked as usual.†   (source)
  • Somehow, with the defection of Isabelle the idea of undergraduate success had loosed its grasp on his imagination, and he contemplated a possible failure to pass off his condition with equanimity, even though it would arbitrarily mean his removal from the Princetonian board and the slaughter of his chances for the Senior Council.†   (source)
  • The masters thought by way of protest of sending in their resignations in a body, but the uneasy fear that they would be accepted with equanimity restrained them.†   (source)
  • Though he had so greatly disapproved of Philip's desire to go to Paris, he accepted the situation now with equanimity.†   (source)
  • But Tess still kept going: if she could not fill her part she would have to leave; and this contingency, which she would have regarded with equanimity and even with relief a month or two earlier, had become a terror since d'Urberville had begun to hover round her.†   (source)
  • But since Wenzel the Bohemian, a man of musical sensitivities, who would certainly never mishandle or damage the instrument, was in charge on these occasions, Hans Castorp could hand it over with reasonable equanimity.†   (source)
  • She laughed a mocking little laugh, which, however, did not in the least disturb her husband's placid equanimity.†   (source)
  • He surveyed his gathering companions with all the equanimity and philosophy of a man who has been drinking long and slowly, and made friends with several: to wit, Tinker Taylor, a decayed church-ironmonger who appeared to have been of a religious turn in earlier years, but was somewhat blasphemous now; also a red-nosed auctioneer; also two Gothic masons like himself, called Uncle Jim and Uncle Joe.†   (source)
  • "Oh, nothing, Sir Percy," replied Marguerite, with a certain amount of gaiety, which, however, sounded somewhat forced, "nothing to disturb your equanimity—only an insult to your wife."†   (source)
  • He listened with a smile on his lips, feigning an equanimity which quite deceived the dull-witted boy who talked to him.†   (source)
  • Indeed, she has not yet recovered her equanimity on the subject, though it is now nearly three hours since dinner, and the house-floor is perfectly clean again; as clean as everything else in that wonderful house-place, where the only chance of collecting a few grains of dust would be to climb on the salt-coffer, and put your finger on the high mantel-shelf on which the glittering brass candlesticks are enjoying their summer sinecure; for at this time of year, of course, every one goes…†   (source)
  • To speak the truth, I had no especial relish for such amusement at any time, and, at that particular moment, would most willingly have declined it; for the night was coming on, and I felt much fatigued with the exercise already taken; but I saw no mode of escape, and was fearful of disturbing my poor friend's equanimity by a refusal.†   (source)
  • He was rudely interrupted by Paul, who struck the tablets from his hands, with a violence that betrayed the utter intellectual confusion which had overset the equanimity of his mind.†   (source)
  • Having convinced herself that Mr. Casaubon was altogether right, she recovered her equanimity, and was an agreeable image of serene dignity when she came into the drawing-room in her silver-gray dress—the simple lines of her dark-brown hair parted over her brow and coiled massively behind, in keeping with the entire absence from her manner and expression of all search after mere effect.†   (source)
  • But suddenly something happened which was very annoying and unpleasant for every one in the house, and completely upset Fyodor Pavlovitch's equanimity at once.†   (source)
  • Moreover, she had hardly recovered her equanimity since the disturbance which she had suffered from Oak's remarks.†   (source)
  • This attack was a more serious matter than the last, and it was some time before Wildeve recovered his equanimity.†   (source)
  • Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel in pitchpoling.†   (source)
  • Remembering on further cogitation, however, that under any circumstances he must have paid, or handsomely compounded for, Ralph's debt, and being by no means confident that he would have succeeded had he undertaken his enterprise alone, he regained his equanimity, and chattered and mowed over more satisfactory items, until the entrance of Peg Sliderskew interrupted him.†   (source)
  • His greeting had been somewhat dry and thunderous, and Elizabeth-Jane, embarrassed out of her equanimity, stammered at random, "This is the lady I live with, father—Miss Templeman."†   (source)
  • A goblet of Champagne restored Joseph's equanimity, and before the bottle was emptied, of which as an invalid he took two-thirds, he had agreed to take the young ladies to Vauxhall.†   (source)
  • An exhausted composure, a worn-out placidity, an equanimity of fatigue not to be ruffled by interest or satisfaction, are the trophies of her victory.†   (source)
  • Fritz, though much disconcerted by the discovery of the secret, recovered his self-possession; and, after bearing with perfect equanimity the jokes with which his brothers assailed him, joined in three cheers for their new sister, and when the confusion and laughter which ensued had subsided, continued his story.†   (source)
  • The laborers began to jeer the travelers and by their insolence disturbed the equanimity even of the cool Athos, who urged on his horse against one of them.†   (source)
  • His servant's equanimity enraged him; he struck him on the forehead with his hat, and said, "You good-for-nothing, you are always playing the fool!"†   (source)
  • Newman, who never reflected on such matters, accepted the situation with great equanimity, but Babcock used to meditate over it privately; used often, indeed, to retire to his room early in the evening for the express purpose of considering it conscientiously and impartially.†   (source)
  • Mr Flintwinch informed him that his mother had recovered her equanimity now, and that he need not fear her again alluding to what had passed in the morning.†   (source)
  • He moved through the rooms for some time longer, circulating freely, overtopping most people by his great height, renewing acquaintance with some of the groups to which Urbain de Bellegarde had presented him, and expending generally the surplus of his equanimity.†   (source)
  • As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour and full command of nerve which was essential to a finished undertaker, he had many opportunities of observing the beautiful resignation and fortitude with which some strong-minded people bear their trials and losses.†   (source)
  • Probably the picture drawn by the unsuspecting Donald of himself under the same roof with Lucetta was too striking to be received with equanimity.†   (source)
  • She made her preparations for departure with great equanimity; and accepted all the kind little Amelia's presents, after just the proper degree of hesitation and reluctance.†   (source)
  • So also was Bathsheba now that he had come, though the uninvited presence of Pennyways, the bailiff who had been dismissed for theft, disturbed her equanimity for a while.†   (source)
  • Endurance and despair, equanimity and gloom, the tints of health and the pallor of death, mingled weirdly in his face.†   (source)
  • 'I hate you to be fidgeting in MY presence,' exclaimed the young lady imperiously, not allowing her guest time to speak: she had failed to recover her equanimity since the little dispute with Heathcliff.†   (source)
  • Having now quite recovered his equanimity, Mr Dorrit, in his snug corner, fell to castle-building as he rode along.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Jellyby, whose face reflected none of the uneasiness which we could not help showing in our own faces as the dear child's head recorded its passage with a bump on every stair—Richard afterwards said he counted seven, besides one for the landing—received us with perfect equanimity.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth, in the meantime, had breathed him a sigh, recovered her equanimity, and turned her face to Casterbridge.†   (source)
  • While she had known him to be alive she could have thought of his death with equanimity; but now that it might be she had lost him, she regretted that he was not hers still.†   (source)
  • Knowing how useless regrets are, and how the indulgence of sentiment only serves to make people more miserable, Mrs. Rebecca wisely determined to give way to no vain feelings of sorrow, and bore the parting from her husband with quite a Spartan equanimity.†   (source)
  • Apart from such a habit standing in the way of that graceful equanimity of surface which is so expressive of good breeding, it hardly seems compatible with refinement of mind.†   (source)
  • Images of a future never to be enjoyed, the revived sense of her bitter disappointment, the picture of the neighbours' suspended ridicule which was raised by Wildeve's words, had been too much for proud Eustacia's equanimity.†   (source)
  • So she viewed with an approach to equanimity the now cancelled days when Donald had been her undeclared lover, and wondered what unwished-for thing Heaven might send her in place of him.†   (source)
  • But whether or not because Casterbridge was difficult to excite by dramatic returns and disappearances through having been for centuries an assize town, in which sensational exits from the world, antipodean absences, and such like, were half-yearly occurrences, the inhabitants did not altogether lose their equanimity on his account.†   (source)
  • Why could he then support that his vigil with the greater equanimity?†   (source)
  • Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity?†   (source)
  • Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity.†   (source)
  • Equanimity?†   (source)
  • Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age, Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.†   (source)
  • …after the precedence of inside authority, Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay, Where children are taught to be laws to themselves, and to depend on themselves, Where equanimity is illustrated in affairs, Where speculations on the soul are encouraged, Where women walk in public processions in the streets the same as the men, Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men; Where the city…†   (source)
  • This is so clear a proposition, that moderation itself can scarcely listen to the railings which have been so copiously vented against this part of the plan, without emotions that disturb its equanimity.†   (source)
  • We have to slay pride in giants, envy by generosity and nobleness of heart, anger by calmness of demeanour and equanimity, gluttony and sloth by the spareness of our diet and the length of our vigils, lust and lewdness by the loyalty we preserve to those whom we have made the mistresses of our thoughts, indolence by traversing the world in all directions seeking opportunities of making ourselves, besides Christians, famous knights.†   (source)
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