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Examples
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And I think the best bloggers have a measuredness to their madness.
03/27/2006 2006
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I think he showed a lot of deftness, measuredness -- he was measured firm.
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Now to the content of the divine order, the fixed quality, the measuredness and so forth — there is opposed the content of the evil principle, its unfixedness, measurelessness and so forth: total is opposed to total.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Before her ladies, she never appeared without some restraint -- manifest in a certain measuredness of movement, slowness of speech, and choice of phrase; but before a month was over,
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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Before her ladies, she never appeared without some restraint -- manifest in a certain measuredness of movement, slowness of speech, and choice of phrase; but before a month was over,
St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864
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I'd also argue that the video's comedy comes from the collision of Antoine's real, genuine emotion and style and the general "reasonable, i.e. sterile" measuredness of the newscast format.
NOGOODFORME.COM 2010
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Yes, but it is not a measuredness I think borne of insecurity.
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Coolness, measuredness, and calm, intellectual determination was the better way.
Steve Ersinghaus 2008
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Dan Farber (very politely) brought some proper measuredness into the discussion
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a leading characteristic is lack of measuredness and of proportion.
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