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"self-possessed" Definitions
  1. able to remain calm and confident in a difficult situation
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" Her reply was self-possessed and curt: "I do have balls.
If increasingly obsessed with the dead girl, she's also self-possessed.
Kelly Clarkson may be the most self-possessed pop star around.
Still, in those years, she would grow into a self-possessed woman.
In them, feminism, institutional critique, sly humor and self-possessed humility unite.
Her fluid movements seductive and self-possessed––an artist in her zone.
The language is at turns erotic and martial, but always self-possessed.
And he's also remarkably self-possessed and confident and I just adore him.
I want them to leave my classroom smarter, kinder, and more self-possessed.
And when he's billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne, he's a self-possessed rich kid.
She's inspiring, self-possessed, and driven by her own vision and internal compass.
Its subject stares just slightly off to the side, self-possessed but sad.
Suzanne is more intelligent and self-possessed, but she too falls under Russell's spell.
Stephanie (Jennifer Morrison) is a self-possessed stunner with sang-froid and spike heels.
When they do meet the lens, they are self-possessed, yet soft and relaxed.
He has already has such command of his own voice and he's so self-possessed.
Coretta Scott King was an educated, self-possessed woman who trained to be an opera singer.
I was really struck by how self-possessed and articulate she was about the whole experience.
Another, in a family with no college graduates, writes an impressively self-possessed college-application essay.
Nevertheless, these early appearances dazzled with their decidedly self-possessed and canny approach to the material.
She's new at this school, somewhere in 1980s Ohio, but she's a self-possessed little thing.
These days, the eldest Mazur seems quite self-possessed, performing on stage with Venezuelan musician Devendra Banhart.
She told herself that passion was for the Mafia; she had to be forensic and self-possessed.
She was the clearest front-runner, self-possessed and chameleonic, and a benevolent, if up-talky, presence.
Williams was a brilliantly syncretic pianist whose self-possessed, physical style spanned swing, stride, gospel and bebop.
"She was self-possessed," recalls Cheryl Aviva Amitay, who graduated in 20123, the year after Dr. Blasey.
"This feels very close to fraud," the extremely self-possessed administrator said, and you had to agree.
Petite and quietly self-possessed in manner, she's an impressively strong technician with apparently effortless fouetté turns.
You seem perpetually more self-possessed, more confident, more bursting with life, every single time I see you.
Every woman in the city seemed so much taller, more sophisticated, and more self-possessed than I was.
The Tanowitz company has seven other members, all pleasingly self-possessed in the way they present the dances.
She looks so regal and self-possessed, she could be playing hide-and-seek with the Dark Lord.
In conversation, he is calm and self-possessed, even formal, but he buzzes with a tightly wound energy.
Gardenhire's pictures seem to be interested in using history to create context to render self-possessed black maleness.
Mr. Hidalgo's polite, folksy demeanor presents a self-possessed young man with an unabashed love of geek culture.
Yet here she is, an imperfect, entirely self-possessed woman telling her story with clarity and without shame.
Their special weapon is their own self-possessed, arrogant beliefs—which, in their own way, are quite Trumpian.
The cool person is stoical, emotionally controlled, never eager or needy, but instead mysterious, detached and self-possessed.
Depending on her reading of a single line, Itty could determine whether Patricia is acquiescent or self-possessed.
In each case, she is self-possessed; it is merely the expression of that self-possession that changes.
What could you possibly add to their vital internal conversations, at once so wayward and so self-possessed?
Throughout her time with Connie, Crystal is self-possessed and calm and acts like this isn't her first rodeo.
Last September, they were self-possessed, if not flawless, in qualifying for the Olympics at a competition in Germany.
Cersei, one of the most self-possessed characters in the show, seems emotionally invulnerable and unruled by any man.
While we talked, Jaymin, who dreams of becoming a motivational speaker, looked on, comfortable and self-possessed among the adults.
Cinematic and self-possessed, they offered up Wagnerian bombast stripped down and filtered through wild pagan folk and thunderous doom.
At Paul Kasmin: Jane Freilicher's silken paintings of self-possessed nudes add stunningly to her excursions still life and landscape.
Passionate, incisive and self-possessed, Ms. Benton never keeps her politics far from her art or her social media accounts.
In Goodyear's article, Obokata is introduced as "a stylish, self-possessed beauty," and her colleagues invariably focus on her femininity.
Most of the time, he looks jaunty and self-possessed, and you can count the missing teeth in his grin.
Her new act plays like John Lennon's post-Beatles material: full of love for parenthood, empathy, and self-possessed as fuck.
He is supported by Jacqueline Antaramian as Coriolanus's coolly self-possessed mother and by Bruce Cromer as a sagacious old friend.
Franklin's Young, Gifted, and Black, her last big hit album of the '70s, is her at arguably her most self-possessed.
Increasingly, the parallel is being drawn between Ibrahimovic and another swaggering, self-possessed import who held Old Trafford in his thrall.
Wouldn't you rather listen to Beyoncé the sexy, self-possessed diva than Beyoncé the most prestigious, iconic megastar currently making music?
It was a chance to explore a relationship with two newly independent and self possessed people who still cared for each other.
It should make you a more thoughtful, reflective, self-possessed and authentic citizen, lover, partner, parent and member of the global economy.
She was elegantly dressed and self-possessed, and yet she was slowly, rhythmically chewing gum, something I rarely see in my psychiatry sessions.
She is intimidatingly beautiful, ruthless, and self-possessed—attributes that might easily be criticized, were it not for the show's expert character-crafting.
The reclamation of anger in culture and pop culture means that the opposite of "sexy" is not "covered-up" or "demure" — it's self-possessed.
Self-aware and self-possessed, he knows he loves his wife, but, like the fencer he is, can leap back, quickly analyze, and respond.
When we met Rachel in person, we were excited to see that she exhibited a natural on-camera presence — vibrantly intelligent and self-possessed.
In each role, there is something waxen and watchful and self-possessed about Kidman, so that, even when she's smiling, she never seems liberated.
Though a private holding company acquired the brand in 2002, her jeans and her name are still associated with a generation of self-possessed women.
Given the pernicious stereotypes associated with bisexuality, seeing a character as self-possessed as Rosa embrace the label was a crucial moment for queer representation.
Cyndi Lauper wrote the music and lyrics, and the show has a lot of her signature sensitive anthem style, big and self-possessed and lovable.
Jauntily self-possessed, the movie's Thurgood (Chadwick Boseman) rides in like a cavalry of one, taking the measure of the town and its escalating tension.
But she is talented and self-possessed enough to know that whether she's in a catsuit, a skirt, or a dress on the court, she'll persevere.
I can think of few artists who recognize their eventual and unavoidable absence from the world — its stony impassiveness — with such tenderness and self-possessed elegance.
"This self-possessed beauty was very different from the women I had been involved with in Hollywood since Diana [his ex-wife] left me," writes Kirk.
I definitely saw myself as this self-possessed boy Lolita, and that was a really big part of my persona and the way I imagined myself.
With the publications, Obokata—a stylish, self-possessed beauty, uncommonly adept at maneuvering in the mostly male world of Japanese science—was hailed as a maverick.
Melinda is a self-possessed girl who has been groomed by a warm and smart father to be a writer and an activist, fighting against slavery.
Now, YG seems more self-possessed: You can tell he's charismatic and important without having any clue as to what it is that makes him successful.
Her words can be hard to make out, but she sounds centered and self-possessed, a suggestion that there is peace to be found amid the pain.
Liberals, as he sees them, picture people as self-possessed beings free to choose their attachments, conservatives as creatures with social roots that impose duties and allegiances.
Good Time contains a scene in which this older, greasier Pattinson emotionally manipulates and kisses a 16-year-old, played by the remarkably self-possessed Taliah Webster.
Gutsy and self-possessed, Barrett talked her way into a domestic worker training school run by the Methodist church, where she learned to iron, clean, and cook.
So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 18 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count.
So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 8 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count.
As President, and previously as a New York businessman, Trump has been the kind of boss whom accomplished, self-possessed men and women would learn to avoid.
Simultaneously inquisitive and slightly clueless, Archer relies on the adults around him and on his self-possessed best friend, Lynette, to serve as mentors in emotional awareness.
Ten gorgeous ceramic animals, made by Ms. Vasquez Yui, are charming and mysterious, particularly a self-possessed black snake and a dignified squirrel holding out one paw.
When S. came to see me, she was pleasant and self-possessed, a former office worker who had lost her job and was living with her daughter.
You don't have to look any further than her Twitter bio — "there's no room for demons when you're self-possessed" — to understand exactly who Carrie Fisher was.
Jared is too self-possessed to ever totally buy into what Refuge is peddling, so the film's final act doesn't quite carry the punch I was hoping for.
This is because no other player in basketball seems so self-possessed, so dismissive of the idea that anything outside of himself could possibly throw him off track.
But to be on your guard—unsmiling, self-possessed, not in need of anyone's approval, and dressed like you know your own worth—is also to be cool.
"So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 18 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count," Swift wrote.
"So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 18 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count," Swift said.
"So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 18 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count," she said.
"So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 18 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count," she wrote.
Self-possessed, she looks upward, as if at the sky,  while the man (or "He"), who shares the same pedestal, as "She," appears more apprehensive than his female counterpart.
A slender, dark-haired woman with a self-possessed manner that is both solicitous and reserved, Ms. Simmons has always been an artist who uses photography, rather than a photographer.
Self-possessed and hugely popular, Johnson was probably the most luminous celebrity in the state of Montana from 2011 through 2014, when he led the Griz to many dramatic victories.
By now, it's clear that I am neither a happier nor a more self-possessed person after eight days of living in a way that precious few people can afford.
According to Showtime, the returning characters will star "alongside a new generation of self-possessed LGBTQIA characters experiencing love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks, and success in L.A." Jennifer Beals as Bette.
We'd entered a Bachelor vortex, where even the most self-possessed people can turn around and give a blubbering confession to the camera about how inadequate they feel as humans.
However confident and self-possessed Annie might seem in later episodes, she still turns to her community, represented by the plus size women who surround her, to help her navigate.
But, although Nana regards her enemy with bitterness and resentment, she also looks at her with something like envy: why can't she be as thin and self-possessed as Paulina?
They're social justice versions of the archetypal superhero origin story, ones that feature self-possessed black protagonists in a medium in which those have been too rare for too long.
It's immediately clear that this sort of beatific, self-possessed youngster isn't long for this world, yet Marber delivers a performance that skirts any Dickensian flourishes and is simply charming.
But the photo also conjured up my memories of being a 14-year-old Asian girl in an overwhelmingly white school who wanted to be interesting, self-possessed and liked.
Shashank Khaitan builds his romantic comedy "Badrinath Ki Dulhania" ("Badrinath's Bride") around a self-possessed heroine — Vaidehi (Alia Bhatt), whose dreams may be ill-defined but don't necessarily include marriage.
The overprotectiveness, anyway, doesn't seem directly related to fears about his daughter, who's shown to be smart, self-possessed, and well-aware of how dazzled and intimidated Peter is by her.
And Ms. Knox, now a self-possessed advocate for the wrongly convicted (after being exonerated in 2015 by Italy's highest court), fully understands how her quirky personality abetted the tabloid narrative.
Thankfully, we've got Ariana Grande, a sexually self-possessed mega-diva who is the peer of her fans at the same time as embodying a fantasy that is all her own.
Featuring tracks that seem to reach for sci-fi trappings ("Now or Never Now") as well as grungier numbers ("Holding Out"), Art of Doubt is a self-possessed, rebellious aural experience.
From there, Sansa went through hell — an abusive marriage to the sadistic Ramsay Bolton — and emerged strong, self-possessed, and with a moral authority that Arya, by then a remorseless killer, lacked.
But it becomes obvious pretty quickly that Jared is too self-possessed to ever really buy into what the program's director, Victor Sykes (played by director and screenwriter Joel Edgerton), is peddling.
Grateful to have found a self-possessed man who can take her stardom in stride, McEntire allows that he's had to adjust to being out and about with such a recognizable face.
If you look at her gaze, the way she is meeting yours, she is very erotic, but she's very confident, she's very self-possessed in her sexuality, and that's something incredibly new.
In Philadelphia, the penetrating soprano Lauren Snouffer is more poised and self-possessed, more equal to her husband (the baritone Mark Stone, booming even in desperation) in presence if not in rights.
The intensity is somehow slightly freakish, especially as it contrasts with the girl's fine skin and self-possessed expression; Mary Jane might be Alice in Wonderland about to enter the rabbit hole.
The Ostermans were beautiful in a Germanic way, Caroline powerfully built, self-possessed, her posture assured, Grace's face tanned and open, as if the Osterman family didn't have a care in the world.
Part of the joy in watching ballet over time is to see a dancer transform from a girl into a woman — or a boy to a man — and emerge self-possessed and strong.
But he was intrigued, and drawn to Serena, who was dressed so exotically and looked so concentrated and self-possessed, with her small, heart-shaped face and painted eyes and mass of hair.
Yes, the Japanese villagers rendered homeless by the calamity were often so calm and self-possessed that their constant offers of cookies and candies embarrassed the foreign journalists who sought to interview them.
"The groom was self-possessed and happy and the bride as charming in her look of love and confidence as the most exacting person could have hoped," The New York Times reported soon after.
Some girls are really self-possessed, and they know what they're doing, and they love sex, and they've always wanted to do it, and they're camming and they have control over what they're doing.
That became something of a theme, especially in "Take Two," in which Lucia Jackson, self-possessed and lovely, and Felipe Escalante became enmeshed in Mr. Khoury's bizarre game of wrapped limbs and intense stares.
Yet the person tens of millions of viewers saw in this fall's debates was hugely impressive all the same: self-possessed, almost preternaturally calm under pressure, deeply prepared, clearly in command of policy issues.
She does something similar on "Comeback Kid," the new record's first single, though now she sounds triumphant and self-possessed, certain of her trajectory: I'm the runaway I'm the stay out late I'm recovering.
Little Red Riding Hood transforms from a self-possessed trickster who outsmarts the wolf on her own into a dainty dinner morsel who has to be saved by a huntsman in the Grimms' version.
The latest celebrates turning 19, simply called "19th birthday," and it finds the producer working a breathy sample, melancholy house keyboards, and a calmly self-possessed rhythmic foundation into something slow-burning and rich.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 44%Synopsis:  In the romantic comedy "Boomerang," womanizing ad executive Marcus Graham (Eddie Murphy) is ill-prepared when he realizes that his new boss is self-possessed woman Jacqueline (Robin Givens).
She's self-possessed and confident, acing every task O throws her way to earn the title of Agent M. At the same time, every element of her new gig is, well, alien to her.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads FRENCHTOWN, New Jersey — Paige Donovan, a self-possessed 27-year-old artist, takes my hand and leads me to a flat file, where she shows me her latest artwork.
Guadagnino saw his heroine as a self-possessed, erotically confident young woman, yet the producers sought a moralistic ending in which she recognizes the error of her ways—"A girl who finds redemption," he says.
But Mr. Sivan is a creature of our time: a self-possessed, on-his-own-terms heartthrob, gay and untroubled, with the commercial sheen of a Disney star and the charisma of a boy prince.
I stomped through the cafeteria, scowling as instructed, and felt, for those few, seemingly second-length minutes, like one of Vaquera's young visionaries, a fellow traveler in a pack of cultishly self-possessed, if nearly feral, creatures.
That they were more daring looks — creative short hair, pink eye shadow and a severe center part — may say something of how we view women of our times: confident, self-possessed and not to be messed with.
Preternaturally self-possessed, Ms. Collins was also highly photogenic — a factor that, coupled with the novelty of the siblings' youth, earned them regular invitations to appear on shows starring household names like Jackie Gleason and Dinah Shore.
In this American West–set historical romance, Regan Carmichael answers an ad looking for a mail-order bride, not because she needs a husband but because the wealthy and self-possessed young woman is in search of adventure.
Strong sense of own integrity Throughout his book tour, Comey has remained the same singular, cordial and self-possessed, sometimes exasperating figure with a strong sense of his own sense of integrity that he was while in office.
"So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 24 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count," she wrote, noting that Tennessee's voting registration deadline was fast approaching.
Students can use Metropolitan Diary and other text forms from The New York Times to inspire their personal writing and to help them become more self-possessed as writers and more democratically oriented as citizens of our world.
Though they liked to refer to her as "M," thus expanding her domain over one of the alphabet's 26 letters, this entourage, always the most honest reflection of a star, struck me as witty, sensible and self-possessed.
I remembered her in a dark blue suit, self-possessed in the wake of the shit storm of the decade, holding a stack of files, which, in my imagination, included a blueprint for her senate run in 2000.
"If you're a female who is sort of opinionated or has a point of view or is self-possessed in a way, you get described with this language in ways that others would never talk about me," Mara added.
In her 90-minute concert on Wednesday evening at the Appel Room, which opened Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, the persona she projected was a hard-working, self-possessed entertainer with a clear perspective on her show business lineage.
Its heroine, Luce, is a self-possessed 17-year-old making her way through the jungle of a new school, navigating unfriendly cliques and obsessing over glowering boys even as a supernatural shadow threatens her safety and her sanity.
Handsome and self-possessed, Noor has his great career expectations met upon arrival in Delhi, where he instantly becomes the Next Big Thing on the art scene — a glittery, multicultural world of gents with man buns and women in miniskirts.
But there are also… You've also got friends, or people you encounter, who are super comfortable in their own skin, and very self-possessed, and feel like they have understood some sort of secret to existence that you're not party to.
Seles, however, was just coming into her own and did not yet have a fully formed persona; Graf, who turned pro at thirteen and had been around for a decade, was much more self-possessed, and more of a known quantity.
"We really just want to remind the American people who Donald Trump is, and who he explicitly told us who he was in this videos: A self possessed, proud sexual predator," Emma Boorboor, a campaign director for UltraViolet, told CNN.
It was 10 o'clock on an unusually chilly morning in New York in April, and Donna M., a self-possessed 78-year-old woman, had flown in from Chicago to see me in my office at Columbia University Medical Center.
From the fond recollections that have followed after his passing, it seems safe to say that Sager really was that person—self-possessed and goofy, confident and ego-less, sincere in his love for his work and the people around him.
In reading about her journey from high-achieving, self-possessed child in Chicago to the fraught glamour of her life in the White House, we marvel at the ways she balanced herself and her image in service of the country.
Even Shiv's less self-possessed siblings — Kendall, Roman, and Connor (Alan Ruck), the eldest and least effective son — slowly start to feel more like human beings as the show makes clear just how badly Logan has broken all of his children.
Also like Close, Keira Knightley hasn't had a role this good in years, and she clearly relishes every second of Colette's journey from a naive girl from the French countryside to a self-possessed cosmopolitan woman keen to explore her unconventional sexuality.
However, in the other gallery, through "The Modern Studio: The Visual Soliloquy" and "Self-Possessed: Contemporary Gazes and Female Photographers" we sense a move toward liberation, where African women — as both subjects and photographers — exert agency and display their unique senses of style.
The young lawyer enters the story fully self-possessed and confident in both the rightness of his cause and the justness of insisting on his place in a society that would get rid of him, and everyone like him, if it could.
In contrast to a mainstream press that quickly transformed Mr. Ashe into an African-American icon and exemplar of racial progress, Mr. Zimmerman represented the athlete as he lived, a complex and self-possessed man in the midst of a life-altering event.
Zedd's sounds have the synthetic sheen and bass heft of electronic dance music as he accompanies Kehlani's smiley, self-possessed explanation of how she's not ruling out romance but not worrying about it either: "I already got everything I need," she sings.
"Helene at the Age of Fifteen," painted in 1900, when he was in his mid-30s, shows von Werefkin's maid — with whom he fathered a child and whom he later married — as a self-possessed young woman against a background of dim shadow.
It's not unforgivable for a successful American writer, married to a famous doctor, to find solace in this foreign country, but I'd expect a character as self-possessed as Joan Ashby to acknowledge her exceptional privilege — and even, perhaps, to question her epiphanies.
Supremely self-possessed and embodying a fierce, unapologetic artistic vision, Joni Mitchell's musical storytelling, experimental song structures, and social critiques were every bit as mold-breaking as her male counterparts of the era—Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Neil Young, and Crosby Stills & Nash among them.
It would be hard to overstate the impact of "The Kitchen Table Series" (1989-90), which combines panels of text and image to tell the story of a self-possessed woman with a "bodacious manner, varied talents, hard laughter, multiple opinions," as it reads.
It was a measure of the game's intensity that you turned around and saw James and Kevin Durant, 1a and 1b for best player in the Milky Way, and two self-possessed fellows, jawing furiously with each other during a break in the game.
This is especially true of "Handsome," arguably the most perfect painting in the show, with second place going to "The girl next door," a portrait of a self-possessed woman in a white dress covered with polka dots of red, yellow, blue, green and purple.
This is especially true of "Handsome," arguably the most perfect painting in the show, with second place going to "The girl next door," a portrait of a self-possessed woman in a white dress covered with polka dots of red, yellow, blue, green and purple.
Standing in front of a vanity mirror, Cavill nails the part of the spoiled, self-possessed actor: Not only is the man decked out in a plush white terrycloth robe with a towel wrapped around his head, but he's also holding the world's daintiest cup of espresso.
"The Cher Show," however, makes excellent emotional sense of the three versions of its heroine: Star, the self-possessed Cher of the past several decades; Lady, the glossy-haired Cher of the 1970s; and the dreamily awkward Babe, who is only 16 when she falls for Sonny.
Meyer's insights into her paramour are both discerning and droll ("We all pay a price for becoming ourselves, but he's paid a high price to play someone else: a Harvard version of Cary Grant"), and her perspicacious assessments are consistent with the self-possessed woman she was.
Twenty years later she still feels guilty, though Harry has grown up to be a preternaturally self-possessed young man, buoyed by loving, enlightened parents and the kind of high school environment that has L.G.B.T.Q. clubs and students who erupt into applause when he collects his diploma wearing red platform stilettos.
He had been in the city for only a few days—he had just met Panthers in Harlem, and was angling to date some of the female Party members, who seemed more self-possessed than any women he'd ever met—when a bookie accused him of trying to rob him.
At a time when almost all producers were men, Ms. Holzer, a shipping magnate's glamorous, self-possessed European wife, had two hits on Broadway: "All Over Town," a farce by Murray Schisgal about a psychiatrist, directed by Dustin Hoffman, and "The Ritz," Terrence McNally's bathhouse comedy, which brought Rita Moreno a Tony Award.
The work of Agnes Martin (1912-2004) — an abstract painter inspired foremost by innocence, which she found in trees, and who wished above all to initiate happiness within the viewer — is so selfpossessed, so generous, and so open that this sense of knowing seems purposefully and permanently left to the viewer.
It didn't hurt that her journey from victim to self-possessed vengeance seeker is a familiar narrative trope, but the show's themes of actualization and empowerment nevertheless feel timely: the primary characters leading the charge for recognition are women, and their enemies are often sputtering, ineffectual men that see the hosts as objects and toys.
And somehow, it still makes so much sense to think of Fisher as part of a mother-daughter dynamic—not as a docile caretaker or a fragile child on the edge, but as an empowering figure, a nurturer, the wise old General Organa handing off the lightsaber to a younger generation of self-possessed women.
The show also does an amazing job of making Cole someone who has a hard time seeing these women, in his POV, and this episode is an eye-opening experience for a character who has spent essentially all of the time that we've known him hiding in his fear and projecting a self-possessed demeanor to cover how he really feels.
Gummer's self-possessed Ephron is a highlight of the pilot, but she then disappears for half the season.) The series is astute about the way women can internalize sexism (like the magazine's publisher, a woman who has no interest in elevating the researchers), as well as the oblivious entitlement of the younger male writers, even Patti's relatively enlightened boyfriend, Doug (Hunter Parrish).
For many years now, I've worked as an acting coach both on set and privately, and I always try to impress upon students that gaining an authentic understanding of what it feels like to be being grounded and centered and self-possessed is as important as knowing what it means to break down a scene or walk in a particular character's shoes.
I'm wearing a shockingly normal shirt in a flattering red-orange, I'm smiling like a person who has control of her face, I look self-possessed and happy, like I know a gap-tooth is going to be in fashion by the time I'm a grown-up, and like I haven't yet met the fraternity social chair who would say that it makes me look like Michael Strahan.
That work, a series of 47 images of people and places taken as Alec followed the sweep of the country's second greatest waterway, which meanders and swells from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, remains the visual equivalent of an American songbook: Here is a sofa bed in Louisiana, the ceiling above and walls around it sparkling with lengths of tinny, glittering light bulbs and metallic-shimmery ropes of beads hung thick as kudzu; here is a self-possessed, bouffant-haired lady in Mississippi, fingernails trim and neat, holding a gilt-framed picture of a cloud shaped like an angel.

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