placid

Out in the benign but swollen landscape, so placid now but so full of potential unrest, unspeakable things have happened.

If he thought his return to the laboratory would be a placid coda to his career, he was soon proved wrong, by yet another advance in genetic engineering, this one called CRISPR.

Arjona has the same earthy warmth she did in “Hit Man,” while Johnson exhibits a placid air of controlled chaos similar to what she showed earlier this year in “Materialists.”

Like the home batters before him, Bennett's strokeplay showed the placid nature of the surface and there were times when England's bowlers were made to work.

McNamara: I have long been a fan of creator Mike White’s dark humor — his ability to find grace in chaos and see the corruption lurking beneath a placid and beautiful surface.