1.   She quickly composed herself as the car started off.

2.   They need to realise that a photograph can be just as carefully composed as any painting.

3.   Did she come to think of her diary, composed as letters to a make-believe friend, as a sketch for a novel?

4.   The overall work, however, is as lucidly composed as any Renaissance painting.

5.   The Princess, her face as composed as those on the reliefs at Angkor Vat, ignores the whole thing.

6.   They composed it as a tribute hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

7.   Others at graves nearby were less composed as the pain of husbands, wives and children, lost one year ago, washed over them again.

8.   Another tune spoke of jasmine and one, composed as a marriage proposal, compared the woman to a honey flower.