with aplomb
showing confidence
TRANSLATION
aplomb = Souveränität, Selbstbewusstsein, Gelassenheit, Sicherheit im Auftreten, unerschütterliche Ruhe ——- to do sth with [one’s usual] aplomb = etw mit [der üblichen] Souveränität erledigen ——- she conducted the meeting with characteristic aplomb = sie leitete das Treffen mit der für sie typischen Selbstverständlichkeit
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
“As an American-born chronicler of communism, Anne Applebaum surfed that wave WITH APLOMB. She wrote incisive books about the Soviet penal system…”
The Economist (20 July 2020)
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"The interviews of Jose Saramago are usually delivered WITH such APLOMB and linguistic precision that journalists often dispense with editing before sending the transcript to a newspaper."
Richard A. Preto-Rodas - World Literature Today Magazine
Did you
know?
aplomb
noun
- confidence and style
- complete and confident composure or self-assurance
The Cambridge Dictionary / Merriam-Webster
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ORIGIN
Late 18th century (in the sense of uprightness, steadiness): from the French à plomb according to a plumb line (Lotschnur, Richtschnur).
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DISTINCTIONS
- CONFIDENCE is a firm belief in one’s powers, abilities, or capacities (“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face” - Eleanor Roosevelt)
- ASSURANCE even more strongly stresses certainty and can suggest arrogance (“How can you present such a questionable theory with such assurance?”)
- APLOMB implies calm poise (“It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals… with aplomb” - Walt Whitman)
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SYNONYMS
- characterized by self-confidence, calmness and composure:
adeptness, APLOMB, assurance, backbone, calm, calm (demeanor), can-do attitude, certainty, certitude, composedness, composure, confidence, control, conviction, cool-headedness, ease, elan, equanimity, even-mindedness, faith in oneself, fearlessness, imperturbability, inner peace (strength), intestinal fortitude, , level-headedness, mental balance (equilibrium, repose), poise, presence of mind, sangfroid, savoir faire, self-assurance (-assuredness, -belief, -command, -composedness, -composure, -confidence, -constraint, -control, -discipline, -esteem, -mastery, -possession, -reliance, -trust, -worth), stoicism, stolidity, stolidness, strength of character mind, will), suaveness, sureness, surety, trust in oneself, unflappability, urbanity
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“Although it was her first public appearance, she delivered her speech with complete APLOMB.”
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