placidity
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
I wouldn’t say serenity, I would say placidity about that time.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
With all the dire warnings, the general seemed to be losing patience with his countrymen’s trademark placidity.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2020
Into it he mixes the soul-opening honk of Albert Ayler, full of enough breath to evoke a door blowing wide open; the winding intensity of John Coltrane; and the troubled placidity of Lester Young.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2020
But the placidity of his face belied an unusually active mind.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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