How To Use Placidly In A Sentence
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Go placidly, amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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There is no visible sign of rancour at the curious lifestyle imposed on her; she appears placidly resigned to her fate.
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In a chair with a pink slip-over, Rosetta slept placidly.
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The dog looks around placidly, its froggy eyes bulging, its skin hanging around its compact body.
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She stood there placidly as Decemo worked off his rage and indignation, taking it out on the toile.
DEATH IN FASHION
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Dobbs stood at the entrance, placidly smoking his pipe.
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I await them placidly seated, smoking, drinking whisky, watching television.
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I walked placidly toward the center, my bare feet faintly slapping against the firmness of the marble platform.
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During the perusal of this devoir, she sat placidly busy, her eyes and fingers occupied with the formation of a “riviere” or open-work hem round a cambric handkerchief; she said nothing, and her face and forehead, clothed with a mask of purely negative expression, were as blank of comment as her lips.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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Go placidly, amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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I put the questions, and she answered them placidly
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Behind me my brother - a year younger than I - was playing placidly upon the floor with a toy.
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The forest was still and quiet; the horses watched their masters placidly.
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And with us painters also, the only result of any efforts we make to acquaint ourselves with the subjects of metaphysical inquiry has been an increased sense of the prudence of lying placidly and unreflectively in our pools, or at least limiting ourselves to such gentle efforts of imagination as may be consistent with the as yet imperfectly developed powers, I do not say even of cephalopodic, but of Ascidian nervous centers.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
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the sea now shimmered placidly before our eyes
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The white walls of her room seemed to emanate a kind of purity, even as they stood placidly, stripped of all their ornaments and embellishments.
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Ever since his recovery he has been placidly frail, yet capable of surprising endurance.
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Very placidly, and as if lost in thought, he insisted on having the foreyard squared.
Youth, by Joseph Conrad
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Water buffalo and goats graze placidly alongside the track; elegant white cranes glide serenely across the paddy fields.
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In a provincial war office, a young woman, Eve, placidly attacks her work (she is a coder), her days enlivened by the gossip of her female colleagues and the joshing of the Big Bad Wolves, a couple of lippy sergeants.
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Go placidly, amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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Her eyes gaze placidly out from skilled maquillage, her expression indecipherable.
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A single fly was placed on the platform, and placidly stayed there, motionless, until the test stimulus was presented.
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Having delivered this eulogism of the dead, the lady folded her hands placidly, and with eyes cast down, but attentive, settled herself to await developments.
The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play
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Go placidly, amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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Madame Speck said they always drank it; and so placing a teaspoonful of bohea in a cauldron of water, she placidly handed out this decoction, which we took with cakes and tartines.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers
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This gesture of taking the son hostage, the better to placidly kill the mother, this calm affirmation, in the face of the world, of a crime of filiation that extends an imaginary guilt to an entire family is well worth recalling a few ambassadors (to France, Spain, Italy, even to the United States).
Bernard-Henri Lévy: After Sakineh, Her Son
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An extravagant collection of activities centered on the family shrine, as the sweet scent of incense hovered placidly above us.
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With that he placidly resumed his walk, and was soon seated in the stern-sheets of a whaleboat manned by uproarious Kanakas, himself daintily perched out of the way of the least maculation, giving his commands in an unobtrusive, dinner-table tone of voice, and sweeping neatly enough alongside the schooner.
The Wrecker
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She pulled him off of the sofa and placed his arm around her shoulder once more, pulling him up the steps carefully, placidly listening to his babble.
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So one bio-day placidly followed another, the ship plunged on through Highlight, and nothing at all of importance happened.
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Forced to smile under the sudden shift of attention to them, Althia placidly glided into the throne room on the arm of her sister, any evidence of their recent quarrel absent from their countenances.
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Go placidly, amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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Half the folks gazing placidly into the middle distance were too stoned to blink.
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The ending she placidly anticipates is a perfect marriage for her long-widowed mother; it is, she thinks, right and normal that Mrs. Cunningham should spend the interim years resting in a chair instead of engaging in what her daughter dismisses as "some productive occupation.
The Mistress of Gloom
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But in the one the great oaks prosper placidly upon an even floor; they beshadow a great field; and the air and the light are very free below their stretching boughs.
Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays
