If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse. From LearnThat.org. [Joan Sutherland]
A ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Her gaze was fixed on Svenson, her expression placid, amused. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
The couple don't blame the driver for the loss of their little boy who they described as a placid yet cheeky kid. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
It seemed kind of placid — there was a bubble here, a bubble there. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: What Lies Beneath] Reference
Ralley has noticed a kind of placid look among his students over the past few years, a "laptop culture" that he finds perplexing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Consequently there is a kind of placid and somewhat defeatist acceptance of the present situation among most of the intellectuals. From Wordnik.com. [The Arts in Russia Under Stalin] Reference
Her hair glimmered, golden and thick, and her face exhibited the kind of placid confidence Mia associated with wisdom and experience. From Wordnik.com. [Mirage]
'Twill sink like stone in placid pool. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell] Reference
What Burke likes about Reimer most is his "placid" demeanour in the net. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
"placid" and "staid," a poor copy of the mother with whose heart the writer's own still beats in unison. From Wordnik.com. ['Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes] Reference
(Larry is kind of placid about LCD — Lawyers’ Comparability Drive — but you know me: I’m right up there with the ringleaders!). From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
Realistically, the transition might not be so placid. From Wordnik.com. [The Upside of Recession?] Reference
The chaos ahead could make election night look placid. From Wordnik.com. [A Whiff Of Victory . . . But Now It's War] Reference
For starters, have a calm Christmas and a placid New Year. From Wordnik.com. [The Year Of The Tear] Reference
Yet I've also been bothered beside placid lakes and meandering rivers. From Wordnik.com. [No One Is Safe] Reference
It's folly, of course, to judge a presidency based on a placid first week. From Wordnik.com. [Texas Two-Step] Reference
Relations between Washington and Seoul have seldom been placid, of course. From Wordnik.com. [IS THREE A CROWD?] Reference
“Yeah, every now and then,” I said, trying to maintain a placid exterior. From Wordnik.com. [An Uncomfortable Moment With My Former Spinning Instructor] Reference
But the measure gave a clear rebuke to the past several weeks of placid trading. From Wordnik.com. [Fear Gauge Spikes, Upending Run of Placid Trade] Reference
There was a time when America's culture was hegemonic, placid and family-centered. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Values?] Reference
But York hasn't always been so placid, and nobody knows that better than Robertson. From Wordnik.com. [A Mayor's Ugly Past] Reference
They're placid beasts — give them a bowl of mash and they don't care what you do. From Wordnik.com. [Magnificent Pigs] Reference
He seemed placid, even becalmed, but Ronald Reagan swept over the nation like a wave. From Wordnik.com. [The Book On Reagan] Reference
It should also robotically chant sports scores with a serenely placid, human-like face. From Wordnik.com. [Doug Lieblich: Entertainment Job Listings for Those Stuck in the Recession] Reference
Hechler is not alone in making waves at an age normally reserved for more placid endeavors. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Flattau: Profiles in Courage] Reference
As it happens, the eyes of Jeffrey Dahmer-hazel, placid, almost vacant — project no sinister gleam. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets of a Serial Killer] Reference
Fear of chaos is not only real, it is respectable, even fashionable -- especially in once placid suburbs. From Wordnik.com. [Riding The Wave] Reference
Short, white-bearded and placid, the 54-year-old Federal Reserve chairman seems the unlikeliest of heroes. From Wordnik.com. [The Money Man] Reference
And placid, smooth sea creatures move across a wavelike tray from design duo Ben Van Berkel and Caroline Bos. From Wordnik.com. [Designs On Tea] Reference
In a frenetic country, here was one of the most placid power plants you'll ever see — buried in the new Great Wall of China. From Wordnik.com. [China: A Torrent of Change] Reference
At the dawn of the last year of the last century of the millennium, America is placid and at peace, but its capital is in chaos. From Wordnik.com. [Washington At War] Reference
The placid surface of life is a deception: our grandchildren will still be coping with the globalization of terror long after we're gone. From Wordnik.com. [Six Months On, The Fog Of War] Reference
The once placid country seemed to be falling apart, but Clinton was headed for a calmer place: he had won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. From Wordnik.com. [Sixties: Coming Of Age] Reference
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