These mostly young men were a self-possessed and supremely self-confident group, all residing at the apex of wealth and literacy. |
The children, in contrast, are curiously poised and self-possessed. |
What I do envy, self-possessed control freak that I am, is other people's ability to lose themselves in unfettered delight. |
The kind of self-possessed girls we've met through doing this come in and think nothing of modelling some Clinique foundation. |
Bureaucrats sufficiently self-possessed to speak in that kind of unequivocal language are few and far between. |
It's easy to imagine why the land-lady's self-possessed daughter wouldn't fall for him and why her lonely, schoolteaching mother might. |