(n.) Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The now 8th Earl of Lucan has treated such sightings with weary equanimity, once saying: “I get a little tired when former Scotland Yard detectives at the end of their careers get commissions to write books which happen to send them to sunny destinations around the world.
(2) New Yorkers demonstrated an excess of the equanimity for which they are known in reaction to the news.
(3) But again and again, I have been struck by the equanimity displayed by Athens.
(4) Richard Wiseman , a professor of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, who also makes cool videos for the web, has had his share of haters, and greets that with equanimity.
(5) Devon manages to maintain a cheerful impression of equanimity.
(6) "Oh yeah, those guys are great," he replies when reminded, with an equanimity that belies his ambition.
(7) He has accepted the realities of the commercial position with great equanimity - more than I would have done.
(8) As for Axelrod, the adviser famous for equanimity, ruffled appearance and a world-weary manner, it is a surprise that he wants to return to the campaign ring.
(9) The nut-nougat cream enjoys enormous popularity as a spread for bread so that even large food undertakings cannot face this development with equanimity.
(10) Some people handle potentially devastating news with equanimity, but for me it was the start of a full digestion of the grim truth, a process marked by nothing if not high anxiety.
(11) His eponymous foundation has raised more than $350m to fund research into Parkinson's and despite facing hurdles that would fell many – the Bush administration's opposition to stem cell research, for example – he has continued with determined equanimity.
(12) Yet parents are told their children are at risk, no one knows our names, and hospital administrators and medical staffs watch us come and go with equanimity.
(13) Given Mr Trump’s equanimity with other flaws in his history, we can only assume it’s a bombshell of unusual size.” Trump said in an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday that he would not overrule legal advice not to publicly disclose his tax returns before an audit is complete - including if the audit is not completed before November’s election.
(14) The singer has not spoken in detail about the prospect of swapping the stage for the assault course, but he will have pleased the South Korean authorities by accepting his fate with equanimity.
(15) The president is not really that powerful.” Toiling in the bowels of online muck has no discernible effect on Mikkelson’s equanimity.
(16) A rise in US interest rates will be met with equanimity across the world, argue the optimists, because everyone else is in better shape, if not growing quite as strongly.
(17) There’s an equanimity, an impermeability and a courage that you need.
(18) Her equanimity towards the director is calculated to defend her from a permanent position of victimhood.
(19) It’s just that I like the equanimity of living in my own zone.” He is suspicious of literary festivals, for all that he can pull in the crowds.
(20) Thus, both surgeon and patient may embark on this hazardous course with a much greater degree of security and equanimity.
Peace
Definition:
(v.) A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose
(v.) Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies.
(v.) Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law.
(v.) Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience.
(v.) Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord.
(v. t. & i.) To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
(3) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(4) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(5) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(6) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(7) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
(8) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
(9) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
(10) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
(11) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
(12) She also welcomed the wider context of Mohammed's release: "I do believe that this time there will be peace," she said, referring to the talks due to open on Wednesday.
(13) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
(14) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
(15) Laryngo-tracheal traumatisms are not frequent at peace time.
(16) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
(17) "What Russia is doing now in Ukraine threatens peace and security in Europe ," said Nato's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
(18) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
(19) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
(20) Kerry, however, has called on Egypt to respect the right of peaceful protest, including pro-Morsi rallies.