How to Use equanimity in a Sentence

equanimity

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  • But Jünger—like the narrator and his brother in the novel—faced the facts with equanimity: such was the way of the world.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
  • While each is unique in its own right, there is a shared sense of equanimity throughout the region.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2024
  • All may not be right with David Price’s world, but enough of it seems to be to expect Price to be handling the rest with equanimity.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 14 July 2017
  • Phoenix had found a way to feel it all and protect her equanimity, pacing herself for a long fight.
    — Audrey Gray, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2021
  • But the Roberts Court has not handled all such disputes that come before it with the same level of equanimity.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Gibson kept up a show of equanimity until his hat and glasses were snatched away.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2020
  • His equanimity and empathy does not extend to the rest of his colleagues, who quickly set up a sniper to take her out.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2018
  • The suggestion of aliens would have come up, of course, but most of the public likely would have met the prospect of moon news with equanimity or dreaminess in place of slight panic.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The heavy users, in other words, reacted to a stressful situation with equanimity and chill even though they weren't stoned at the time of the test.
    — Christopher Ingraham, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The bond market, at least so far, has received this morning’s news with equanimity.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 13 July 2021
  • And then my other two brothers, Osiris is the god of the underworld, Egyptian god of the underworld, and Equanimious comes from the word equanimity.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2021
  • Nutrition researcher Kevin Hall strives to project a Zen-like state of equanimity.
    — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2019
  • In Mexico City, López Obrador began to talk about the case with newfound equanimity.
    — Tim Golden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Among the many things that vex him is Matthiessen’s equanimity in the face of his failure to see a snow leopard, the sense that its absence was just as significant as its presence.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • Seneca himself is recorded to have died with complete equanimity, forced to take his own life but doing so calmly and while speaking of courage in life and death.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • He’s not exactly thrilled, but accepts this with the equanimity of someone who has heard this before, many times.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Day by day, the book says, these small victories can become the building blocks to a return to emotional equanimity.
    — Diane Cole, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2017
  • For those of us old enough to remember the days of irate backseat drivers wielding folding maps, this equanimity comes as a great relief.
    — Suzanne Nossel, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
  • In his day, as in ours, both conspired to keep the teacher immature and to make equanimity impossible.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • More than anything, Tyler appears to have found a certain equanimity.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2021
  • Biden, who has buried a wife and two beloved children, who has seen 78 years’ worth of loss and achievement and weathered them with plenty of tears and unreasonable equanimity, brims with it.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Your demonstrated equanimity, as well as an open and loving attitude, will set the tone.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2021
  • Her equanimity in the face of tragedy was tested in 2019, when doctors discovered a nine-centimeter tumor in her brain.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • Only two top teams in Euro 2020—Belgium and Italy—played with anything like equanimity.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 July 2021
  • War may be headed in his direction but Sergeivich showed a sort of equanimity that has become a typical sight in Kyiv and other big cities these past few weeks.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • A lot of the meditation stuff is having a space of equanimity, which is like a space between yourself and the reaction, your space between yourself and your state.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2023
  • His commitment to ignoring the Mayor’s sneakers was impressive, but so was Adams’s equanimity in the face of this scorn.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The celebrated insouciance of the honey badger, a weasel, is nothing to the equanimity of the porcupine.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Yet the film, for all its endearing oddities, suggests that old doesn’t need to be cured, only worked through with as much grace and equanimity as possible.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The issue, then, was not the act of hanging itself but the consistency and equanimity with which Kirpal had seemingly carried on for so long.
    — Rachel Heng, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021

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