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1 " As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop. "
― Gustave Flaubert , Madame Bovary
2 " When you are in love, you are in an aura of aplomb in the midst of adversity. "
3 " I admire those believers who speak of such things with the same aplomb as if the'd just split a beer with God in the cabin next door. "
― Sylvain Tesson , Dans les forêts de Sibérie
4 " I’ve seen some of the most violent hard cases in the city twinkling through a quickstep and dipping into a tango with an aplomb and skill that would have earned them a guest spot on Come Dancing. "
― , It's Criminal: The True Confessions of a Jet Set Master Criminal
5 " That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth "
― Alastair Reynolds , Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
6 " It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever. "
7 " Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust. "
