Example sentences for: equanimity

How can you use “equanimity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The irony is that Soutine seems to have viewed the arrival of the Nazis, at least initially, with a certain equanimity, more cheerful than fatalistic.

  • Earth's balance was thrown off, and a massive migration was required to regain planetary equanimity.

  • She received the news of the discovery with equanimity.

  • It is all but impossible to retain critical equanimity in the face of such things, especially when we know that what Wilkomirksi/Doesseker tells us, was, in its rougher outlines, true.

  • Finally, when he learns that Judy has been murdered, he can barely breathe, his anguish seems nearly unendurable, but it's only a momentary spasm, he regains his soulless equanimity, and as he quietly intones his last lines--"The greatest pleasure in life [is] the sweet, ever-changing caress of an early evening breeze"--we realize we've witnessed the exquisitely ironic fusion of elegy and despair, the inseparable linking of a brilliant text and a superb performance.


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