Self-possession like hers is often interpreted as pretentious, or pathological.
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And she exuded this strength of self-possession I found magnetic.
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It also requires a significant amount of courage and self-possession.
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As always, she's the model of generosity of spirit and self-possession.
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Hawke has the beguiling, uncanny self-possession of the early Scarlett Johansson.
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Let's talk, for a moment, about self-possession and grace under pressure.
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For others, a swelling womb threatens their integrity—their literal self-possession.
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And I find it impossible not to admire this defiant self-possession.
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Genius does not always come linked to this sort of self-possession.
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Haunting is a form of self-possession — an immovable, unyielding refusal to disappear.
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"Dadaists wanted to achieve self-possession in the here and now," Stavrinaki explains.
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His self-possession now seems anchored more in a feeling of entitlement than steadfastness.
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Winter has been outspoken and has a self-possession that belies her 19 years.
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Giuliani exuded a level of self-possession and authority that was impossible to fake.
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Ms. Vikander doesn't yet have that kind of self-possession, but one day might.
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Stefani does all of this with a preternatural grace and self-possession that we envy.
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But Ms. Wells is determined to convey high-minded self-possession along with inner turmoil.
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She's fastidious, curious, and ambitious — a different sort of self-possession than Smith's energetic confidence.
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Because the only thing second to good taste is an unshakable sense of self-possession.
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But beyond that, the record's focal points speak to Jordan's unique and dogged self-possession.
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Despite the depth and self-possession in her voice, IV Jay is only 17-years-old.
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Love's impeccable English translation by Martin Aitken reflects the economy and self-possession of Nordic prose.
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If further footage exists, it won't reflect a momentary loss of self-possession on Trump's part.
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Now a successful writer and mindfulness coach, she bears an easy air of gracious self-possession.
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She is 21995 and sexy in the manner of women who have achieved total self-possession.
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These three characteristics — wisdom, perceptiveness, and self-possession — are irrelevant to the trolley problem, by design.
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The alias has afforded her a level of self-possession she wasn't able to reach as Héloïse.
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Apparently, their date included bonding, compliments about Jackson's self-possession, bowling, pizza, and stretched until 4 a.m.
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When it comes to Trump, truth, decency and self-possession have been in quarantine from the start.
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Yet no matter who he was photographing, there is a self-possession and dignity in their portraits.
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That's not to imply a confessional urge, but rather a drive to interrogate agency and self-possession.
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An animal so unlike the animal I am, one with such a developed sense of self-possession?
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What's more, the killer possessed the icy self-possession to gather and remove all 15 spent shells.
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How liberating the breed of female artist that eschews cool self-possession for loud, hairy, flashy self-expression!
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Almost as if a trained dancer has greater reserves of coordination and self-possession than your average human.
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From young children in battered sneakers to rockers in bullet belts, Vandenberg's subjects exude confidence and self-possession.
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She delivers the news of Mitch's firing with strength and grace, a picture of self-possession and concern.
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From the blues to the experimental fringe, the guitar usually represents some promise of self-possession, assertion, independence.
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In each case, she is self-possessed; it is merely the expression of that self-possession that changes.
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And what I thought was a holier-than-thou pretension was the self-possession that continues to impress Tess.
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She had no defenses, no layers of justification or self-possession, and she quailed under his scourging, remorseless look.
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"The Second," his new album, takes this hybridism as gospel, extending the premise in a shroud of self-possession.
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The women, especially the central figure, look into the camera's lens with the same calm self-possession as Hamer.
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One is the self-possession and confidence to weather the disapproval of VSPs and the mau-mauing of Republican opponents.
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She's shown her knowledge of the television industry and displayed a shocking level of self-possession about her Instagram haters.
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But over the course of the film she finds self-possession, even calm, as an observing subject of the world.
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That kind of self-possession is rare and enviable, and it even led some to eye Van Ness with suspicion.
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We understand that what Shakespeare values is not the anarchic emotionality of men but the vigilant self-possession of women.
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In this moment, though, the conflict is quiet; commanding the frame is Akuja de Garang's self-possession, her unbroken spirit.
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The swimmers in this exhibition, all women, seem to be enjoying a moment of self-possession in the water's embrace.
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Perhaps in losing you (or potentially losing you) he'll find more strength and self-possession than he's mustered thus far.
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Now, post-divorce and in her late 50s, mother to an adored teenage girl, Albertine misses that early self-possession.
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Tessa Thompson's blend of regal self-possession and emotional directness as Adonis's girlfriend, a musician named Bianca, didn't hurt either.
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Based on Giotto's renowned Maestà in the Uffizi, Gaddi's panel lends his figures much of the same graceful self-possession.
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Raju has a considerable sense of self-possession but he remains a teenager, which is to say patience is not endless.
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Lorde, then, called for a radical form of self-possession whose boundaries were not open to negotiation with a white society.
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In her reimagined worlds we — that is, people of the African Diaspora — have dynasties, have comfort and ease and self-possession.
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Both of those artists contribute to "Country," one of The House's standouts, a droning document of self-possession and summer idylls.
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There's a whole life history and knowledge of the world and self-possession that come from someone who has seen more.
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She channels the full force of confused feelings into live movement and finds sex and self-possession in front of a crowd.
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But what Allison forged in the fire of those thoughts is self-possession and self-actualization normally found in someone much older.
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What they do is something — maybe just sowing discord in a power structure and robbing their targets of some self-possession and security.
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She was shocked out of her self-possession, her ankle wrenched painfully, the hem of her pink coat dragging in the dirty slush.
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He plays up the Norwegian self-possession against all that hot-blooded Middle Eastern behavior, and, in his hands, both sides become stereotypes.
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The lack of self-assurance about her physicality (in contrast to Lila's self-possession) is made visible because we actually see the girls.
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Michael League, the band's bassist and leader, is a tousle-headed former military brat with the chipper self-possession of a summer-camp counselor.
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She had thick blond hair, big glasses, wore no makeup, and she had a sense of strength and self- possession that I found magnetic.
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But as in "The Good House," the details of Leary's narrative are bright, capturing, for example, an older woman's self-possession and steely pride.
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Radiating self-possession, she told horror stories of broken elevators, broken intercoms, of having to be carried up flights of stairs by kind strangers.
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It's impossible to take your eyes off the performance artist Erin Markey, who matches sirenlike self-possession with off-the-wall non-sequitur humor.
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In this objectification of the Black woman's body, Leigh calls into question what kind of autonomy and self-possession is available to Black women.
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"Precisely due to their professionalism, self-possession and coordinated actions (they) managed to land a plane without tragic consequences," a Ural Airlines statement said.
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They alter pieces of the text and give a different edge to the parts, Angie Pittman imparting self-possession, Sandy Williams upping the flamboyance.
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So, she feels that he deserves to have the same kind of peace and self-possession that she has found through years of practice.
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But if you walk deep into a wild Australian landscape, the glossy armor of your self-possession may begin to show a few cracks.
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Yet Harper's poise and self-possession were the norm among the affluent freeborn black women who had time to engage with the suffrage movement.
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But it's easy to see why he couldn't; the album exudes confidence and self-possession and life experience, traits that Blue Neighbourhood only gestured towards.
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One teacher described her as, "a little lady of great self-possession," always with "some new oddity of speech or manner" in The Romanov Sisters.
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What they're playing is "Coltrane Time," an obscure piece by John Coltrane, and Mr. Cyrille shows the way forward with a regal, flowing self-possession.
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That hustle, drive, and self-possession is an inextricable part of her star persona, and any attempt to play it down just wouldn't feel true.
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Treviño was impressed by Cardona's self-possession, and not long afterward Cardona was sent, as a probationary foot soldier, to a training camp in Tamaulipas.
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She is also permitted a display of self-possession that doesn't quite square with the sexual hunger she is sometimes asked to portray on film.
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If a scrim of nostalgia threatens to obscure the photographer's compositional acuity and preternatural alertness to his subjects' self-possession, these Kodachrome slides dispel it handily.
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The tension between Nussbaum's discreet and dangerous self-possession and the hostile forces around him is searing, and it shows his precarious individuality in high relief.
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They can seem mildly interested in how they are beheld—they wouldn't have bothered dressing well if they weren't—but with dispassionate self-possession, attitude-free.
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Hallmarks of Ms. Vega's songwriting and performing include a cleareyed understatement, acute observational detail wrapped in an aura of cool self-possession, and concise circular melodies.
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And this ghostly, reproachful recitation of Brooks's elegy to doomed youth shatters the composure of a woman for whom self-possession is as essential as oxygen.
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Where other gay icons exude self-possession, Spears's fragile resilience has made her an even more fascinating role model, closer to Judy Garland than to Lady Gaga.
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The fingers of the right hand are folded down to clasp the left in a gesture of self-possession: Cromarty at one with nature, catching herself lovingly.
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I've argued that they mostly aren't; moral behavior, in the real world, has much less to do with first principles than with wisdom, perceptiveness, and self-possession.
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Henry sings in tense, foreboding tones of killing the vermin that give the track its title, whispering with an startling self-possession as the song swells around him.
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Nice Try released a self-titled tape back in 2016, full of songs of romantic and existential anxiety and a careful self-possession, alongside the winningly ramshackle instrumentation.
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Huppert's uncanny mixture of self-possession and wildness is never not interesting to watch, but when Frankie is off screen she takes the film's life force with her.
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Without being oppressively explicit about it (mostly), Hunt gets at the myriad ways women work to keep their self-possession in the face of social and interpersonal expectations.
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In the image, Thomas is mostly naked, adorned by glitter and cast in soft lighting, looking directly back at the viewer from a place of seductive self-possession.
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"Javanka", by contrast, were handsome celebrities with metropolitan views and, in Mr Kushner's case, an eerie sense of self-possession that hinted at brilliance, or moral purpose, or both.
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Her face was set in a steely expression of self-possession and purposefulness, which gave her the appearance of a cross between a soldier and a minor Buddhist deity.
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More than anything else, classical training seemed to him to lend a steady self-possession to vocalists, one that's crucial when you're dealing with operatic themes of death and destruction.
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When he restrains himself from trolling Kim Jong-un about the failure of a North Korean missile test, he is credited with the strategic self-possession of a Dean Acheson.
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His flamboyantly British presence on campus reminded me that there was a larger world outside of our tiny 400-person town, and he had a self-possession that I envied.
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Natalya Romaniw, a Welsh soprano with a Russian name, was vocally impressive as Tatyana but with too much self-possession when she is meant to be a tender soul in turmoil.
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It was an oddly painful read, this celebration of my 21-year-old self: the young woman it describes has everything to offer and the dauntless self-possession to offer it.
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What was shocking and exciting about these two performances was that McCarthy and Haddish were breaking all the rules of femininity — and they were doing it with incredible warmth and self-possession.
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Real heroes, those that shine with bravery and radiate with self-possession, are so rare that we so often over look them, losing their light in the noise of a mundane world.
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The years-long passage between what, if you're lucky, is the bold and relatively invulnerable era of girlhood, and (again, if you're lucky) the self-possession and confidence of adulthood, is fraught.
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The only limitation in this is that Ojih Odutola has constructed a narrative around aristocratic families; thus she proposes that personal wealth is the essential foundation for social esteem and self-possession.
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Morrone delivers a mesmerizing performance as a young woman undergoing a seismic interior journey belied by uncanny self-possession, As for Dale, he finally gets the showcase his talents have long deserved.
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"Orchid" does, after all, cheekily refer to cryptocurrency that allows people to surf the internet undetected, and it seems as if this figure embodies that crypto power in its blind self-possession.
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Rather, especially in "The Vengeance of Achilles" (1962), he seems to have positioned self-possession on the tip of a bloody spearhead, piercing history with a slippery and alienated here-and-now present.
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Mikaela Kelly and Joshua Guillemot-Rodgerson looked professionally steady as the mature couple in white, and among the rest of the fine cast, Miriam Gittens stood out for her self-possession and strength.
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Forms Larger and Bolder: EVA HESSE DRAWINGS offers a glimmer of the spirit, in all of its messiness and hesitation, refinement and self-possession, that made the artist a beacon for successive generations.
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Maybe I was just interpreting the brain fog as a moment of zen, but I thought I might have some secret self-possession others wished for—that I was capable of just about anything.
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Often bathed in California sunlight (Mac is based in LA), his subjects are shot with both self-possession and vulnerability in slightly off-center, informal poses that create a sense of fluid movement and gesture.
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After all, how can he for all his self-possession and savvy hope to compete with the boorish young tearaway who, in this iteration, does not so much play the piano as clamber aboard it.
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On the one hand, Iesha Evans and the figure in Bachman's other photo radiate a kind of calm self-possession that might read as acceptance, or the poise of people who have divine protection or status.
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But this time, you're stronger, wiser, and ready to address things head-on, equipped with a refined self-possession that will serve you when the Sun breaks over your horizon to begin Virgo season next week.
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The crux of American roadtrip montages and the setting for teenagers getting frisky without the interference of the watchful eye of parents, the car has great implications for shaping ideas of free will and self-possession.
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As the hedge fund titan Bobby Axelrod, Mr. Lewis might spend most of his on-screen time spitting out cocksure zingers, but he's that rare TV actor with the self-possession to make even overdramatic lines sound organic.
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They never bat an impatient eye when I ask them to spill where they found their tops (or shoes, or earrings, or jackets), and they're the pictures of self-possession when I pick their brains about trendy new restaurants.
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While the rest of the world has both intentionally and unintentionally tried to make her the Jan Brady to Rousey's Marcia, Holm has quietly gone about her business with a stunning level of tact, grace, self-possession, and intelligence.
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When I first saw her, in 2003, in George C. Wolfe's production of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's indelible musical, " Caroline, or Change ," I was struck not only by her self-possession in the role but by her curtain call.
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With her amused smile and self-possession, Ms. Jolie seemed happy to strut around in Lara's shorts and big boots, but she also seemed to be there for her own pleasure, which she made easy for girls (and women) to share.
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The faces in other works impassively look at the viewer, radiating a sense of self-possession, but this woman is smiling, adding a performative dimension to the work; her gaze is turned away from us but still directed at an audience.
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The visual artist, who hails from Los Angeles, collects her works for Gentle Existential, a solo show this fall which meditates on themes of the artist's self-possession, the human psyche, and the significance of nature despite an urban world.
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Regardless of the environment and where she directs her gaze, Cappetta's self-portraits which she continues making to this day, capture a sense of confidence and self-possession—she is in control of her likeness, whether it's glamorous, fleeting, or somewhere in between.
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For any stereotype about a black female identity, power, self-possession or beauty, Annie Leibovitz's composition of these women, models who have mastered the art of physical gesture to convey an idea in a glance, offered a sharp retort, a collective dare.
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And the album's superb sound — courtesy of James Farber, the engineer — puts you in the room as she finesses Kurt Weill's standard "My Ship," with a tip of the hat to Mr. Rollins and John Coltrane but also a persuasive self-possession.
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Ms. De Keersmaeker disappears and reappears throughout, yet there is a determined way that she places herself front and center with a curious mix of self-possession and confrontation: She wants to be looked at, just as we want to look at her.
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It's odd to me that men are allowed to enjoy dumb entertainment alongside their more highbrow pursuits and it's assumed that they have the self-possession to know the difference, whereas dumb entertainment enjoyed primarily by women is regularly labeled the fall of civilization.
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I cheered as Dr. Blasey displayed both the detachment of a scholar who has spent a career trying to understand the science of trauma and its effects, and the hard-won self-possession of an adult woman who has spent decades confronting her demons.
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Bland's death might technically be classified as a suicide, but the fact remains that the tragedy was precipitated by a simple act of self-possession—her assertion that she had every right to continue smoking her cigarette in her own car during Encinia's questionable traffic stop.
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In "Fatebe Self Possession" (2017), Fatebe's limbs are bent around the edges of the canvas like a rectangular donut, so that she is looking down into her wide-open vagina, which contains an overhead view of a stairwell receding down to a patterned carpet in red, orange, and black.
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They also don't evince Franz Hals's insight into or judgment of his characters' personalities, although in this series, Wiley captures the self-possession of Carrie Mae Weems really well — perhaps because a self-regard that can read to the naked eye as hauteur is the emotional theme of show.
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Brooker said he was approached last year by an intermediary sent to gauge his interest in caddying for Ko. Brooker had worked with golfers who had played competitive rounds with her, so he had seen Ko's game up close and was impressed with her driving accuracy and self-possession.
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"While Chris' vigor is intoxicating, Letissier hardly conceals the trauma and hurt women like Chris are made to endure before achieving this degree of self-possession," writes Jamieson Cox for Pitchfork, noting the way that the "lurid, sizzling pop-funk" of the album doesn't exclude true emotional depth.
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The self-possession Stanfield dramatizes often means that his characters — Darius from Atlanta, adrift in a wash of murmurs and sporadic theoretical asides, or Cassius Green from Sorry to Bother You, a movie that externalizes the racial ventriloquism that goes on in the mind of a black telemarketer — possess a sneaky intelligence.
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The pianist Jason Moran brought his Fats Waller Dance Party, making a ricocheting funk jam out of old repertoire and allowing the vocalist Lisa Harris to reinhabit the classic self-possession anthem "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do," paring down the lyrics, letting her sighs and her body movements communicate her pride.
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In Velázquez's "Portrait of a Young Girl," from around 1640 and stunningly alive after conservation, an anonymous sitter of around 6 or 2535 — lips pursed, black eyes fixed forward — has the self-possession of a grown woman; its psychological intricacy belies the easy brushwork of the picture's background and the girl's gray dress.
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In Velázquez's "Portrait of a Young Girl," from around 1640 and stunningly alive after conservation, an anonymous sitter of around 6 or 7 — lips pursed, black eyes fixed forward — has the self-possession of a grown woman; its psychological intricacy belies the easy brushwork of the picture's background and the girl's gray dress.
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However, little in this celebrity artist-filled show — which includes male mega-star assets Maurizio Cattelan, Bruce Nauman, Damien Hirst, David Hammons and Robert Gober — argues for any kind of self-logo indiscernibility, even as deviating from the regularities of hyper-visibility might provide new sources for artistic production and social self-possession.
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The exceptions are few but worth savoring, like "Portrait de Femme Profil Gauche Sur Fond Vert et Brun" (1939), which has a tenderness one rarely sees in Picasso's work, and "Femme au Petit Chapeau Rond, Assise" (1942), from which Dora Maar looks out with a self-possession so striking it almost reads as a rebuke.
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I'm dating a 53-year-old, and not only is she, in my completely biased opinion, a total smokeshow — she's all the more alluring to me because she carries with her the poise and self-possession of someone who knows who she is, what she wants, and what it means to live in her truth.
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Pivotally, Reed is titling these paintings with the phrase "Tree for Mine," intimating self-possession and an individual reconfiguration of the senses previously assigned to different places and experiences, all while playing with variations close to the sounds of the numbers "Three Four Nine" (Reed's childhood address in Charlottesville was 349 21 1/2 Street).
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Critics have been raving about the 23-year-old model-turned-actress's standout performance as Robin — a no-nonsense teen who works at Hawkins' sailor-themed ice cream parlor, Scoops Ahoy, and is a font of ingenious, evil-fighting suggestions (PEOPLE's own Tom Gliatto praised her performance, saying Maya has "the beguiling, uncanny self-possession of the early Scarlett Johansson").
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It has been nearly 50 years since Richard Roundtree first donned the street-sweeping leather coat and camel turtleneck of John Shaft, the black private detective whose extraordinary self-possession and unbowed swagger — transferable from the office, to the street, to the bedroom — landed in theaters like a bomb in 1971, changing the relationship between black America and Hollywood forever.
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Writers who deliberately seek out the company of those foreign to them need to be armed with an unshakable sense of self-possession and a certain sense of arrogance; you need to be able to walk into a place (be it a city or a souk or a tundra) without wondering whether who you are is actually where you're from, because you already know that where you're from doesn't matter.
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