Word: aplomb
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...outside shot at being chosen for the 4 X 100 m-U.S. relay team. But he's only guaranteed a chance to compete in the long jump, and is not assured a medal there. Still he has stuck to his usual training regimen, and the preternatural Lewis aplomb, which so many have mistaken for ice water, may serve him one final time. "Experience does mean a lot," he says...
...good square dance is a good caller. he or she must orchestrate many different elements, acting as shepherd to trusting square dancers. Don Beck, the caller at Tech Squares, is superb, smoothing out intra-square troubles, filling dead time with mildly corny jokes, mixing the music with skill and aplomb...
...moment, their aplomb seems to be deserting them. Judging by opinion surveys and diagnoses in the press, a country that long prided itself on being the lumiere du monde is awash in dark soul searching. The French are said to be fed up with politics and politicians. There is the hangover from the gulf war, an episode that deflated the vaunted image of French power and influence. Paris waffled about what to do almost to the last minute and ended up sheltering behind U.S. policy. In the harsh judgment of Jacques Julliard, a columnist for the progovernment weekly Le Nouvel...
...context. In between, he spins out long, shimmering arias whose sinuous lines deny the listener the security of a conventional verse-chorus-verse structure. Once a card carrying minimalist, the composer now weds a sturdy rhythmic pulse with a freer melodic and harmonic idiom that can evoke with equal aplomb a Monteverdi arioso, a Mendelssohn scherzo or Duke of Earl...
...midnight neighbors stand around, talking, drinking beer, watching as the bonfire bursts into a wall of heat and forces the crowd against the houses. ! Older people step back with the aplomb of suburbanites watching Fourth of July fireworks, while children gallop through the sparks. The crowd screams with pleasure when flames shoot upward and set ablaze the Union Jack atop the heap...