Generosity was one highlight of the postquake citizenry, equanimity was another.

A libertarian might regard that quasi-Darwinian prospect with equanimity; the rest of us might not.

behind the façades of equanimity and tried political craftsmanship

its utter beauty: the soft equanimity of its articulation, like the voice of justice; the sweet dissonance, welcome as pain

It’s an equal feat, traversing registers: the droll, meditative equanimity of his fiction, and the ardor, sometimes anger, of his nonfiction.

the new heroines of contemporary fiction possess a kind of anhedonic equanimity, more numb than overwhelmed

he rather strangely praised Henry James for 'his classical equanimity [...]'

This tension is present in even the most benign of his New York paintings, the ones that testify to a more pleasurable, more equanimous kind of solitude