placid
Example Sentences
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Composer Bernard Herrmann’s score, his last, is alternately mellow and roiling, befitting its placid but simmering antihero.
Somewhere in the expanse beneath that placid splendor lay Togbe’s childhood home in its watery grave, lost in time.
From Literature
"The first one by Cití Ní Ghallchóir is so sweet but still so sad and placid... she just seemed really exhausted," she said, noting that the other two felt "disgusting, painful and exaggerated."
From BBC
"George is now 7ft. He is pretty placid - except at dinnertime when you have to be so careful because he jumps up."
From BBC
The Treasury market logged a placid session, with yields barely budging, a day before the Labor Department releases delayed figures on October and November inflation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
