What's the difference between sangfroid and unflappable?

Sangfroid


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite five days far from home and then hours flying through uncertain skies, the first passengers back into Heathrow last night exuded little more than relief and Anglo-Saxon sangfroid.
  • (2) Yet behind the British sangfroid, there was a real concern that Merkel and Sarkozy were playing right into the media narrative of a split between European social democrats and the Anglo-Saxon free marketeers, the precise narrative Obama tried to dismiss.
  • (3) Still, she mused, plummeting mercury and freezing flurries are always treated with Scandinavian sangfroid.
  • (4) No self-pity, no fear: a hostage sets new standards for British sangfroid | Jonathan Jones Read more Banchetti said the five of them were looking to each other for reassurance.
  • (5) Some citizens reacted to the dramatic events being shown live on TV with sangfroid.
  • (6) Tywin controls the realm, pulling strings and humiliating his grandson, the king, with sangfroid.
  • (7) Such sangfroid is rare in the music industry but Carter's rollercoaster career has given him perspective on success, failure and bouncing back.
  • (8) But it doesn't happen that often, and when it comes to London audiences, the process can be tough, with English sangfroid mixing with the capital's dreaded sophistication.
  • (9) The emperor, running the occupational risk of poison, used a food-taster, who treated his job with great sangfroid, appreciating the wine, criticising the cook.
  • (10) Eavesdrop on teachers whose sangfroid you admire to build up your personal artillery of phrases.

Unflappable


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) May, normally so unflappable, seemed to have realised at last that she had something in common with Roy Hodgson – an impossible job.
  • (2) So, of course he is going to suffer, it doesn’t matter if he has an amazing job.” The prince said the event was an opportunity to show that even “unflappable” sporting personalities could experience mental health problems.
  • (3) Photograph: Popperfoto The director, Paul Andrew Williams, best known for the acclaimed L ondon to Brighton , is a refreshingly unpretentious and unflappable director, despite having had to conduct an orchestra of several languages and locations.
  • (4) As "Lou" Carr, he become assistant managing editor for national news, a much admired, unflappable figure who worked on every major story from the era of Eisenhower to the administration of the first George Bush.
  • (5) The ability to be a good listener, unflappable and patient enough to deal with irascible family members, mediating family spats and calming ruffled feathers also helps.
  • (6) Lagarde's unflappable calm seems to come quite naturally.
  • (7) There were chances in a lively and entertaining last few minutes, with Rashford failing to get a touch to a Martial cross then having the ball whipped from his toes by the heroically unflappable Jagielka, though ominously most of them were at Everton’s end.
  • (8) It is a look that matches his backbench style: unflappable but not insouciant; with authority but no menace and, it once seemed, palpably relieved to be off the front line.
  • (9) It's his spirit, his guile, his unflappable conviction in professional knowledge and practice that you need to channel.
  • (10) It's the one thing that ruffles her otherwise unflappable demeanour.
  • (11) The sport seems to mimic how she conducts business: avoiding collisions with her counterparts, all the while looking unflappable and elegant.
  • (12) Debonair and unflappable, former journalist Les Hinton served as Rupert Murdoch's consigliere for over a decade, smoothing the ruffled feathers of the rich and powerful whenever they were on the receiving end of stories published in News International's stable of titles.
  • (13) What is incontestable is that Timpson was a thoroughly unflappable professional, who was not afraid of getting up at 3am to face any challenge.
  • (14) The double revelation of Letterman's at-work sexual practices and the blackmail plot against him left Manhattan's unflappable TV world stunned.
  • (15) Yet Stephen's is the sort of idealism that turns out to be thin-skinned and highly strung, in spite of the apparent unflappable competence that so impresses both his own boss, Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and his enemy's PR chief, Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti).
  • (16) Terry Burns, as he is known to everyone, is described as charming and unflappable, a "down to earth grammar school boy from the north-east" whose passions are "golf and Queens Park Rangers".
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Presidential debate highlights: Clinton and Trump’s final face-off Looking increasingly irritable, he locked horns with the unflappable Fox News moderator, Chris Wallace, and repeatedly cut off his Democratic rival – including, on one occasion, interrupting her mid-sentence with the line: “ Such a nasty woman .” However, it was Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of an election he is currently projected to lose that will stand out from the ill-tempered clash on the debate stage on the University of Nevada campus in Las Vegas.
  • (18) Surrounded by 10 men on a hot debate stage at the Ronald Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley, California, Carly Fiorina was unflappable and commanding as she maneuvered questions about foreign policy and sexism.
  • (19) Previously seen as the unflappable Supermac, his culling of a third of the cabinet redefined him as a panicker.
  • (20) A nervous and sensitive man, his public posture of unflappability served to reassure the electorate that Britain remained strong and secure.

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