NOUN
- self-control in a crisis; ability to say or do the right thing in an emergency
How To Use presence of mind In A Sentence
- The child showed great presence of mind by grabbing the falling baby.
- Our fore fathers had the presence of mind to do away with king and "queenship". King Bush, Knight Dick, and Princess Lynne!
- The general's courage and presence of mind earned him deep admiration among the armymen.
- The president answered the modest doctor with as much politeness as presence of mind: he put the figure 1 before the number 100, and wrote (1100) "_They are ten times what they were before_. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831
- I had enough presence of mind left to feel sorry for him and was ready to intercede on his behalf.
- I wish I'd had presence of mind to screenshot at the time, since it was deleted not long after.
- With his usual presence of mind he nipped back and picked up Sheldukher's hard copy map of the planet.
- Any one may mistake in the application of these rules of action or calculation, for want of presence of mind, or of advertency to all that they prescribe, and this may especially happen, when he first commences them in practice. Address to the Senior Class and Before the Audience Assembled at the Annual Commencement on the 28th of June, 1827.
- His courage/presence of mind deserted him.
- By the time I had added an ordinary typewriter table to its scanty furnishing, I was hard put to turn around; at the best, I managed to navigate it by a sort of vermicular progression requiring great dexterity and presence of mind. MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS
