How to Use equanimity in a Sentence

equanimity

noun
  • Gibson kept up a show of equanimity until his hat and glasses were snatched away.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Phoenix had found a way to feel it all and protect her equanimity, pacing herself for a long fight.
    — Audrey Gray, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The ups and downs of life are borne with equanimity and optimism prevails.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The daughter would not need to be cut out, and the family’s equanimity needn’t be jarred.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The bond market, at least so far, has received this morning’s news with equanimity.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 13 July 2021
  • His equanimity and empathy does not extend to the rest of his colleagues, who quickly set up a sniper to take her out.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Xi does not share their equanimity, or their confidence in long-term solutions.
    — Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
  • Below are two key building blocks to start a journey toward equanimity.
    — Brad Cousins, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • So, what can parents do to model equanimity and grace in these very uncertain and high-pressure times?
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2024
  • More than anything, Tyler appears to have found a certain equanimity.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2021
  • But the Roberts Court has not handled all such disputes that come before it with the same level of equanimity.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Dec. 2020
  • For those of us old enough to remember the days of irate backseat drivers wielding folding maps, this equanimity comes as a great relief.
    — Suzanne Nossel, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
  • Day by day, the book says, these small victories can become the building blocks to a return to emotional equanimity.
    — Diane Cole, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2017
  • Seneca himself is recorded to have died with complete equanimity, forced to take his own life but doing so calmly and while speaking of courage in life and death.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Huge numbers of African people were living out their lives, often in peace and equanimity, when out of nowhere, armed men appeared.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
  • In his day, as in ours, both conspired to keep the teacher immature and to make equanimity impossible.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • The heavy users, in other words, reacted to a stressful situation with equanimity and chill even though they weren't stoned at the time of the test.
    — Christopher Ingraham, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • All may not be right with David Price’s world, but enough of it seems to be to expect Price to be handling the rest with equanimity.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 14 July 2017
  • Nutrition researcher Kevin Hall strives to project a Zen-like state of equanimity.
    — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The suggestion of aliens would have come up, of course, but most of the public likely would have met the prospect of moon news with equanimity or dreaminess in place of slight panic.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2020
  • But, by the time Vance was growing up, Jim had quit drinking and reached something of a cranky equanimity with Bonnie.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Yet the film, for all its endearing oddities, suggests that old doesn’t need to be cured, only worked through with as much grace and equanimity as possible.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2021
  • A lot of the meditation stuff is having a space of equanimity, which is like a space between yourself and the reaction, your space between yourself and your state.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Among the many things that vex him is Matthiessen’s equanimity in the face of his failure to see a snow leopard, the sense that its absence was just as significant as its presence.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • In Mexico City, López Obrador began to talk about the case with newfound equanimity.
    — Tim Golden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • War may be headed in his direction but Sergeivich showed a sort of equanimity that has become a typical sight in Kyiv and other big cities these past few weeks.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Her equanimity in the face of tragedy was tested in 2019, when doctors discovered a nine-centimeter tumor in her brain.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • The celebrated insouciance of the honey badger, a weasel, is nothing to the equanimity of the porcupine.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The issue, then, was not the act of hanging itself but the consistency and equanimity with which Kirpal had seemingly carried on for so long.
    — Rachel Heng, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • On the runway somewhere on the campaign jet, before the pick is announced, brutal Steve Schmidt is struck by Palin’s equanimity.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024

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