placid
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Beukers was as round and placid as her husband was thin and worried, but tonight her plump face was twisted with anxiety.
From Literature
Steve Sosnick, the chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, writes that the president’s comments “challenged investors’ perceptions about a speedy end to hostilities and a fundamental tenet of U.S. equities’ placid response to the crisis.”
From Barron's
American shale’s placid responses to energy whirlwinds are becoming an enduring feature of the U.S. oil industry.
On Tuesday, she and two Ph.D. students took water samples on a placid bend of the river near a creek that had been swollen with sewage.
Composer Bernard Herrmann’s score, his last, is alternately mellow and roiling, befitting its placid but simmering antihero.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
