She wanted to wet her lips, yet "perfect composure" meant exactly that.

At the brief hearing, Clarke was said to have "stood firm and spoke with perfect composure."

With perfect composure he bowed, then descended calmly to the ruedo.

She got out with perfect composure and approached as I rolled my window down.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

She walked the long length of her backyard with deliberate steps and perfect composure.

She sat there, with perfect composure, all night.

"That's one thing which doesn't worry me," Conroy said with perfect composure.

"I just realised that the knife was probably already in the room," she answered with very nearly perfect composure.

Thus, with perfect composure on both sides, the matter was arranged.