| Always there is the need to retain her poise and never appear to be put out or discomposed. |
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| I found him this morning somewhat discomposed. His wife and her mother and sister were to arrive yesterday by the morning train. |
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| The whites, of course greatly discomposed, had besides a curious look of being painfully shocked by such an outrageous row. |
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| He sighed, slightly relieved to have escaped their self-righteous wrath, but also a bit discomposed. |
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| The chess master, noticing that his opponent becomes discomposed when he is forced to wait, exploits this weakness in their second match. |
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| Even in his discomposed state of mind, Derick was able to compare what the valley people were doing compared to what the people on the mountain had been doing. |
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| The only time I ever saw him in any way discomposed and submissive was while he was being harangued by his mother on the telephone. |
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| I am glad I have done being in love with him. I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning. |
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| As the poison of jealousy moves through his blood, Leontes's seething monologues are accompanied by eerie, high-pitched strains in Keith Clouston's score that cannily evoke the warped perspective of a discomposed mind. |
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| The tale of the supernatural is traditionally an art of slowly built crescendo: we know that eventual horrors begin with small intimations – that witnesses will at first be only mildly discomposed. |
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