Similar sang froid is being displayed about America's stockmarket.

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It takes considerable sang froid, not to say indifference to human tragedy, to tell the people of Croatia that the prospects for peace will suffer if their effort to exercise self-determination is legitimized by the international community.

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By contrast, on television, where he has been appearing more frequently, he acts with uncanny sang-froid.

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And it was the French who had words like "sang-froid" and "insouciance" to describe qualities that the British did not yet appear to possess.

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Sadly, sang-froid was in short supply Stateside, and by the time Casey arrived in Seville for the first round of the World Cup, the Americans had manned the barricades.

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