aplomb

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Editorial note

Please give us the clarity of mind to wield this great new power with discretion and aplomb.

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great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool"

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noun

great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for aplomb.

noun

great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool"

See also: assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froid

Example sentences

Please give us the clarity of mind to wield this great new power with discretion and aplomb.

For somebody going through an oh-shit moment I'm admiring your aplomb.

We will prevail with quiet aplomb and all that will be deemed too uninteresting to be reported.

I think it's more that OpenBSD has always been aimed at "infrastructure" tasks - it chugs away as a router or firewall with aplomb.

It's beautifully designed, and it's handled everything I've thrown at it so far with aplomb.

But they'll win new ones when this story and the likes come to their attention, and when they learn how the company handled it with honesty and aplomb.

It's kind of amazing that this is still unfixed given how poorly the font rendering makes pages look and the fact that every other Windows browser handles it with aplomb.

Humans are social creatures and the dismissiveness might be in part due to Dustin Curtis having some rather negative PR on HN in his not too distant past and, being young and brash, he didn't exactly handle it with aplomb.