placidity

But, as in “Men,” Kinnear’s appearance of placidity makes his characters’ nefarious tendencies even more chilling; his ability to draw his mouth into a grim implacable line is second to none.

I had been struck by the placidity of Courtney’s life in the public eye.

She lets the camera drink in the differences between their big-city home environs and the placidity of their woody, lakeside getaway.

Kemp’s contrasting placidity conceals an urgency even though he has led Abrams by about five percentage points all year, which Monday’s debate probably did not alter.

The stylistic placidity draws attention to the disturbance of Hildy’s alcoholism, the way her drinking interrupts even the film’s genre.