placid

How To Use placid In A Sentence

• Hannah's remembrances of things past, however, are sometimes skewed by subtle dissonances and a sense of anxiety that disturb the apparent placidity of his picture-perfect world.
• Second, there was the placidity of the creatures.
• In such works, the serene surface of domestic placidity is only occasionally ruffled by dissonant details: Lou presents a world that is as familiar as it is banal.
• The limbs grew stiff and rigid -- the features smoothed into that mysteriously wise placidity which is so often seen in the faces of the dead, -- the closed eyelids looked purple and livid as though bruised ... there was not a breath, not a tremor, to offer any outward suggestion of returning animation, -- and when, after some little time, Heliobas bent down and listened, there was no pulsation of the heart ... it had ceased to beat! Ardath
• My disorganization was a chaotic river that I waded through every day, somehow coming out the other end dry only due to the comparatively placid pace of being a Londoner. Ed Zitron: Ride the Whirlwind: Making a New York Minute Last
• [She has risen and stands rubbing her arm and recovering her placidity, which is considerable.] Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
• But this was a perfectly placid surface, so the constant coming and going calls for some explanation. Times, Sunday Times
• An extravagant collection of activities centered on the family shrine, as the sweet scent of incense hovered placidly above us.
• The report noted that a large volume of water produced by a storm had turned the normally placid river into a fast-flowing torrent.
• She is very placid and wouldn't do anything to upset an animal.